Yale University has an Open Access Policy that allows the fully free use of many of its reproductions of public domain art. You can read the policy here. To quote the policy: The Open Access Policy applies to digital images of works in Yale University’s museum, archive and library collections that are believed to be [...]
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The Data Hub is the Open Knowledge Foundation’s directory of datasets. It’s a great resource for art history, especially in the Digital Humanities. Over the last few years more and more art and art history-related datasets and APIs have been listed: sets of images, geodata for public art, museum collection metadata, and databases of facts [...]
Google Books can be used to download digitized books and journals that aren’t available on archive.org. Here are some examples of what can be found. In English Modern art and living artists The Art journal The art of painting Works of art and artists in England The art of drawing in perspective Colour, as a [...]
Mass digitization of library collections means that art historical written materials are more easily available in reproduction than ever before. Google Books is easier for searching for them, but archive.org is better for downloading them. Journals, magazines, catalogues and books can all be found, although what is available is of course skewed by what libraries [...]
Saturday, December 31, 2011
I have written a script to download a dataset containing collection information from the UK Government Art Collection site and save it in tab-seperated-value files and an sqlite database for easy access. As the data is from a UK government agency it’s under the OGL. You don’t need to run the script, a downloaded dataset [...]
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Algernon Graves (1845 – 1922) documented British art exhibitions and sales. You can read about him on Wikipedia here. His three part magnum opus “Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century ” was published in three volumes between 1918 and 1921. I have now scanned the first volume. [...]
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