{"id":798,"date":"2013-04-24T20:14:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/?p=798"},"modified":"2013-04-24T20:14:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:14:06","slug":"google-tools-the-google-cultural-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/google-tools-the-google-cultural-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Tools: The Google Cultural Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is a very versatile company with one of the best search engines in the world \u2013 so much so that you don\u2019t search something, you Google it.\u00a0 Google also has a number of tools that most people are familiar with: Google Drive (formerly GoogleDocs), Gmail, Google+, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Translate, and Google Books are some of the most commonly used ones.\u00a0 If you go to Google.com, you\u2019ll find a list of services across the top of the window.\u00a0 At the far right of that list, there\u2019s a link to More, and from there a link to Even More.\u00a0 And yet there are some tools that aren\u2019t even on the Even More list.<\/p>\n

A history professor introduced me to the Google Cultural Institute<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 You can see what the site has to offer with the Explore tab.\u00a0 There are currently three channels on the site itself: Fall of the Iron Curtain, Stories of the Holocaust, and the French-German Treaty of Friendship.\u00a0 Each channel sends you to a series of exhibits you can examine in more detail.\u00a0 You can also search the Institute by decade, partner (this gives you a search result of what that partner has posted to the Institute), and projects sponsored by Google but not overtly part of the Google Cultural Institute.<\/p>\n

Interested in why Google is sponsoring museums? A New York Times article<\/strong><\/a> has some insight into Google’s motives for creating the Google Cultural Institute. Museums and cultural institutes are pairing with Google to digitize their work and get it to a wider audience. For some involved museums, physical visitors have increased as a result of their online activities.\u00a0 Google has also been working hard (due to conflicts with authors over the Google Books tool) to be responsive to museums\u2019 needs and to keep their involvement limited (projects are not overtly connected to Google).<\/p>\n

By ITA, Hillary Shipps<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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