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The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia -- Powered by IBM
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This IBM Corporate Community Relations project with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia began in January 1997. Our goal was to do much more than just provide technology to the Hermitage Museum. We aimed to transform how people around the world experience the Hermitage Museum and its collections. The partnership with a world class cultural institution like the Hermitage marks IBM's web debut in the cultural arena and represents another powerful opportunity for IBM to demonstrate its leadership in providing leading edge e-business solutions to help customers leverage their existing assets. The project required IBM to tap into variety of competency centers around the globe and involves four key technology initiatives.
The State Hermitage Museum web site is yet another demonstration of IBM's leadership in the web arena and an impressive addition to our extensive portfolio of compelling, highly-trafficked Web sites for high profile customers, partners and corporate sponsorship projects. In short, this web site allows the world to experience the masterpieces of the Hermitage collections from anywhere in the world using IBM Digital Library technology. This Digital Library and the web site that makes it accessible to the world is based on IBM RS/6000 computers and IBM Digital Library software from the IBM Santa Teresa, California Lab. The special application software, which is the heart of the site, was developed in IBM's e-business Solution Center in Naples, Italy and the site design and user interface of the web site was created by IBM's e-business Services in Atlanta, Georgia.
High resolution images are provided by IBM's specialized Image Creation Studio using patented IBM technology developed at IBM's Watson Research labs in New York to digitize art objects and protect images. The web site itself supports both English and Russian. Translation work was provided by IBM East Europe / Asia in Moscow, Russia and by Hermitage specialists. The site provides important historical information on the Hermitage, its extensive collections, numerous offerings, events, membership and special exhibitions.
