The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums

21 points by surprisetalk2 hours ago

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mcmcmc9 minutes ago
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traceroute6636 minutes ago
Interesting concept. Its desperately missing a decent filter function though.<p>Just dumping a million results on the user to doom-scroll through is a bit problematic in terms of UI/UX.
dominotw42 minutes ago
I searched for 'soviet' and it matched cylinder seal 3500bc <a href="https://lastmuseum.com/art/cylinder-seal-307" rel="nofollow">https://lastmuseum.com/art/cylinder-seal-307</a><p>soviets were big into seals and govt procedures . maybe?
- MitPitt8 minutes ago
  This website likely uses a semantic vector space like CLIP or BERT space. Which is based on co-occurrence of words, it doesn't have a harder logic behind it. Soviets probably had cylinders in some machinery which is why it pulled.
Wryivy941 hour ago
Curious whether the embeddings come off the images or the catalog text, because in my experience museum metadata is wildly uneven (half the Met's older records are basically "Vase, terracotta"). Also, do you dedupe across institutions?
asnull2 hours ago
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