The announcement in 2019 that the Johnson Publishing Company was selling its photo archive inspired the founders of the Loss/Capture Project, Steven Booth and Stacie Williams, to reflect on Black cultural heritage and history and archives, particularly as this history is represented in collections in Chicago. With support from Sixty Inches From…[Read more]

The Digital Piranesi website is a project from the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina, partially funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The project makes the engravings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) freely accessible through the digitization of a complete set of the posthumously…[Read more]

Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, aims to demonstrate to readers how data can be used to “remake the world.” Building upon scholarship on intersectional feminism, data science theory, and examples of data projects, the authors formulate seven principles of data feminism aimed at exposing and addressing forces of str…[Read more]

D-CRAFT, the Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit, is a set of tools that was created to provide galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and repositories (GLAMR institutions) with best practices for assessing reuse of digital objects. Released in May 2023, the Toolkit includes information about ten assessment methods; tutorials;…[Read more]

LUX: Yale Collections Discovery is an ambitious digital discovery platform that aggregates Yale University’s cultural heritage and natural history collections. Using a Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) Linked Art model and a backend knowledge graph structure, LUX centralizes the collection catalogs of Yale University Library, Yale Center for B…[Read more]

The Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA), formerly called Consortial Action to Preserve Born-Digital Web-Based Art History & Culture, is a project that preserves at-risk web-based art materials, making them accessible for art historians, critics, curators, and other individuals involved in art research and scholarship.

Designed by Women, a digital resource organized by the Stewart Program for Modern Design, is an effort to focus attention on the many significant examples of women’s contributions to design around the globe from 1900 to the present. The scope of objects covered includes furniture, textiles, jewelry, tableware, and some graphic design. This site w…[Read more]

Textile Hive is an online repository of more than 40,000 textiles, featuring high-quality photos and information designers can use to inspire, enrich, and enhance their creative projects. This database originated from the Andrea Aranow Textile Design Collection, an extensive personal collection and physical textile library located in Portland,…[Read more]

The Artists Studios Resources guide offers valuable information for emerging studio artists such as books and databases, as well as links to websites on artists (such as artist archives), grant resources, podcasts, and artist interviews related to studio practice and the fine arts. Created by a Senior Art Librarian at the New York Public Library…[Read more]

All Light, Expanded is the digital companion to the 2021 film, All Light, Everywhere, which won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation. The film itself is a non-linear experimental documentary that explores the intertwined histories of cameras, weapons, and policing. The director, Theo Anthony, is a Baltimore native…[Read more]

Mapping Philippine Material Culture (MPMC) is a project that aggregates digital images of Philippine objects in museums worldwide, contextualizing these objects in collaboration with Philippine scholars and “culture bearers.” The online platform relies on images that are either in the public domain or have creative commons licenses, and cur…[Read more]

Voyager is an open-source suite of tools for creating and displaying three-dimensional images. It was developed by the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office to serve as their 3D imaging pipeline and is available to the public. Any effort to make 3D cultural heritage images more accessible via open-source tools should be applauded. When t…[Read more]

MoMA Exhibition Spelunker is a portal for exploring the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition history. Originally taken from a large dataset of information from the archives, the company Good Form and Spectacle, transformed MoMA exhibition history from 1929-1989 into a user-friendly portal for deep engagement.

Review: First launched in 2020, the Smithsonian Open Access portal provides an inroad to copyright-free digital materials from the far-ranging collections of the Smithsonian Institution. As a freely available web repository accessible to anyone with a browser connection, Smithsonian Open Access opens the intellectual doors of its many divisions,…[Read more]

Review: Art Journal Open (https://artjournal.collegeart.org/) is an open-access digital journal for the visual arts published by the College Art Association. The journal produces scholarly essays, interviews, reviews, and projects focusing on topics related to post-1945 and contemporary art that are global in scope. It features contributions from…[Read more]

Review: Launched in 2015, #dariahTeach is an European based Open Education Resources (OER) platform for the digital arts and humanities. The target audience for this platform is higher education teachers, who can embed existing content or create new content for courses and learners, especially those who do not have access to formal courses or…[Read more]

Review: Digital Art History Journal (DAHJ) is a fascinating and unique resource. Futuristic in structure and classic in content it is a wonderful blend of what the internet could be in its most interactive format while maintaining a quality of content that one would expect from an academic journal. In fact, the initiative began in 2015 as the…[Read more]

Review: The Flora Scales Catalogue (https://florascales.com/) demonstrates the clear benefits of presenting a comprehensive catalogue of an artist’s work online. Whereas traditional printed catalogs may only reach a limited audience, Flora Scales is intentionally openly accessible, and overflowing with high-quality images. Some of the drawbacks o…[Read more]

Review: The online exhibition Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community – presented by the Morgan Library & Museum in conjunction with the in-person exhibition that took place from January 28 through June 5, 2022 and organized by Belle da Costa Green Curatorial Fellow Nicholas Caldwell – examines the social and political impact of Gwend…[Read more]