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The Museum Scholarly Catalogue in the Internet Age
This essay provides an overview of the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative, a program launched by the Getty Foundation in 2009 to support the production of digital museum collection catalogues. Launched by the Getty Foundation with help from colleagues at the J. Paul Getty Museum, OSCI supported online scholarly catalogues developed by eight grantees: the Art Institute of Chicago, the Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum, Tate, and the Walker Art Center. The overarching goals of the program, as well as lessons learned along the way and at the conclusion of the initiative, are described here. To close, the essay points to remaining challenges and potential future directions in support of publishing museum collection catalogues online.
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Academic communication, academic publishing, catalogues, databases, differentiation of the publication system, digital art history, digital publishing, digital strategy, e-book, enhanced publication, long-term availability, metadata, museum collections, normative data, open access, publication database, publication formats, research data
Anne Helmreich is Associate Director at the Getty Foundation, art historian. Research interests: History of the art market, provenance research, art and science, nineteenth-century visual culture, digital art history.
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