Towards a Complete History of Art: Building an Interface that Connects Museum Data Internationally

FAIN: MD-263817-19

Fordham University (Bronx, NY 10458-9993)
Laura Auricchio (Project Director: June 2018 to present)

Development of a digital search tool connecting museum art object databases.

The proposed research group aims to build a digital platform that connects museum data internationally using the data provided by museums. Although in reality museums are connected through the exchange of their traveling works of art, until today, we do not have an interface that evidences a traceable art history of these exchanges. The digital platform that we are aiming to design will create a new kind of knowledge production for scholars, artists, curators, educators, and an interested public. We will be meeting for two 2-day workshops with a group of ten scholars, engineers, designers, and museum experts to collaboratively create a design document in order to implement and build the digital platform. The approach of this proposal has a clear design focus in data visualization and interactive usability of an interface that would create new scholarship in the digital humanities and a new understanding of a connected art history in the museum context.