Human-readable first
Collections data should be understandable to visitors, researchers, editors, and curators—not only machines.
About
Meta Museum carries the Sun & Rain Works prototype into a source-backed platform.
The sibling Meta Museum Art prototype framed the mission: help GLAM institutions make cultural heritage more discoverable, connected, and useful for education. This app turns that mission into governed Linked Art workflows with provider evidence, human review, and publication safeguards.
Mission
Technology that keeps cultural context visible.
Sun & Rain Works began in 2005 with a practical belief: software should improve access to information, knowledge, art, and education. Meta Museum applies that belief to museum data by making provenance, rights, citations, and uncertainty visible at the moment people use the record.
Connected by design
Linked Art JSON-LD, provider provenance, and graph-ready relationships keep cultural heritage records reusable without hiding their source context.
Review before publication
Rights, citations, originality, and sensitivity checks gate publication workflows before records or drafts leave the app.
Prototype migration
What moved forward from Meta Museum Art
The old prototype supplied the public-facing framing for GLAM Linked Open Data, project discovery, and Sun & Rain Works mission copy. The current implementation keeps that framing, but avoids stale hard-coded provider counts and placeholder project data.
Prototype intent
Cultural heritage access, community engagement, and semantic web education remain part of the public story.
Current guardrails
Public claims are backed by provider registries, source snapshots, citation checks, and reviewed asset provenance.
Next surface
Project cards now point to live source, review, and publishing workflows instead of coming-soon placeholders.
Review projects