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]

The work of the Humanities Commons Implementation Task Force grew out of its predecessor, the Humanities Commons Planning Task Force, which was established in the fall of 2018 and concluded its work in the spring of 2019. The planning group recommended adoption of the Humanities Commons platform in order to provide improvements to society-provided…[Read more]

This highly recommended, multi-phase collaboration of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL)was funded by the NEH, CLIR, Delmas Foundation, and the Gender Justice Fund. In Her Own Right aggregates digitized materials from member institutions and others in the region to tell the story of women activists in the…[Read more]

Launched in 2005, this open-access, online journal provides a forum for scholars, artists, and practitioners to share their work and promote critical dialogue on new media art. The initial edition was created from papers of the New Media Caucus at the College Art Association (CAA) conference.

Produced by UK-based charity Culture24, this is a “whimsical and witty site . . . which showcases curiosities in collections up [and] down the land,” according to Culture24’s former board chair. Serving as a guide to current exhibits and lesser known collections in a wide variety of regional museums and London institutions, the website’s home pag…[Read more]

Maintained and hosted by Princeton University, the Index is a comprehensive database of iconography from the Middle Ages that has been cataloged and indexed to allow users to browse and search images based on subject, location, medium, and other facets. While the Index’s original emphasis on the Western European canon of early Christian art is e…[Read more]

The People’s Graphic Design Archive (PGDA) is a crowd-sourced repository of, by, and for enthusiasts of graphic design. Started by design educator Louise Sandhaus in 2014 to celebrate and make accessible a vast variety of graphic design examples by a range of designers and design collectives, the website launched in September 2022. The project has…[Read more]