Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 31. (Budapest, 2017)
Zsombor JÉKELY: The Museum of Applied Arts in 2016
death. Edited by Zsombor Jékely, with the assistance of Zsuzsa Margittai and Klára Szegzárdy-Csengery. Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 2015. 232 pp. ISBN 978-615-5217-21-0 Bikeology. When design drives the bike. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by Kulturgorilla. Museum of Applied Arts - Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport, Budapest, 2016. 168 pp. ISBN 978-615-5217-24-1 Balia, Gabriella: Herend Porcelain from Hungary. [Exhibition catalogue in Japanese and English]. Tokyo, 2016. Pásztor, Emese: “Spectacle and Splendour. Ottoman Masterpieces from the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. [Exhibition catalogue in Arabic and English]. Sharjah Museum Department — Museum of Applied Arts, Sharjah, 2016. Digitization In 2016, the Museum of Applied Arts started a new project aimed at the full digitization and online publication of the collection of the Museum. Funded by the Government of Hungary, the project—called Transparency Project—runs for two years in 2016-2017. To make large-scale digitization possible, the infrastructure of the Museum was greatly improved: now four photo studies can work side by side, and the newly developed digital system can manage all the material created in the project with great efficiency. The curatorial staff of the Museum works on revising data in the collection database, and objects with new photographs are continuously being published in our online database {http://collections.imm.hu). In the course of 2016, over 10.000 objects were made available online, tripling the number of objects thus accessible. Efforts are being made to make this material available on the Europeana platform as well, even after the completion of the AthenaPlus project. Other, smaller projects were also carried out during the year: in cooperation with the leader of digitization in Hungary, Arcanum Database company, a selection of our tapestries were photographed in gigapixel resolution (available at: https://gal- lery.hungaricana.hu/hu/lMM/). In the framework of the Hungaricana—Hungarian Cultural Heritage Portal {https://hun- garicana.hu), a number of early publications (dating before 1945) of the Museum of Applied Arts were made available online. That is also the platform where earlier issues of this journal can be found online. International Cooperation Starting from 2016, the Museum of Applied Arts is the new representative of Budapest in the Réseau Art Nouveau Network (RANN). The RANN was founded in 1999 due to the initiative of a few European cities with a rich Art Nouveau heritage and today has more than twenty members from all over Europe and even from the overseas. In 2014 the RANN became a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe. Member cities are represented by institutions with different profiles: museums, universities and state institutions which are all committed to research, conservation and popularization of Art Nouveau heritage. RANN aims to keep professionals and the general public informed of the Art Nouveau research and 162
