digital portal allows worldwide access to whanganui gallery collection

While the Sarjeant Gallery is located in a temporary home in the Marina Sarjeant, public access to the collection has never actually been as good as it is now.
The Discovery Collection digital portal allows anyone who can access the internet to search the entire Sarjeant collection based on their chosen filter
Such as artists, themes, years, media, ethnic groups, colors, object types, etc.
Available through the Sarjeant gallery website, the Discovery series has been very successful, and at the most recent 2018 national digital forum, it won the Digital Award and last year the NDF digital exhibition or collection Award. A prize-
Exploring the winning collection portals such as collections is the dream of every collection institution in the world, but it is not easy to do this, because every item in the collection needs to be sorted in detail, and take pictures in a specific way.
In 2014, the Sarjeant series must be moved out of purpose-
Due to the decline of nearly 100 people, the Sarjeant Gallery was built in Queen\'s Park in pukennhamyear-old building.
The storage conditions collected have been worrying for years, and ultimately, when a large chunk of ceiling masonry falls to the ground, decided to close the gate to the public, the marble bust of the gallery\'s founder, Henry sagant, was slightly wiped.
Moving the art collection to Sarjeant on the dock was a hard job, including four full time transition assistants who worked for 21 months and moved more than 8000 items.
Each piece was removed from the narrow environment in the basement of the Sarjeant Gallery and transported to Sarjeant on the pier, where the entire collection now resides in temperature and
While ensuring the preservation of the art, the move makes it possible to conduct a comprehensive audit of the collection.
When the transition assistant moved each item to Sarjeant on the dock, they checked and sorted each item --
A process that has never been completed completely before. . .
Collections like Sarjeant are rarely completely abandoned and audited on such a scale, so this move is a unique opportunity to capture accurate and detailed information about each item.
As a direct result of this audit, the mobile Collection has been launched and anyone can view and Explore the Sarjeant Collection online.
Developed by collection curator Jennifer Taylor Moore and supplier Vernon systems, explore collections using tools provided free of charge on the Internet to automatically calculate the main colors in the image and generate data automatically, such as theme keywords.
Discovery Collection is a leader in digital access to collections in New Zealand.
In April 2018, Taylor Moore and Vernon systems were invited to publish a paper on the Discovery Collection at the North American museum and networking conference in Vancouver.
The latest development of Discovery Collection is Sarjeant mosaic, which allows visitors to see images of the entire collection on one screen
The viewer can select the more detailed work to view from.
The arrangement of image thumbnails can be sorted according to the artist\'s last name or working date, creating some amazing visual patterns and effects on the screen.
It can explore the collection through the Sarjeant website and click.
Sarjeant can boast of having one of the country\'s state-of-the-art digital collection portals. A 65-
At the beginning of this year, Sarjeant on the dock will install an inch touch screen in the kiosk cabinet for visitors.