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Remarkably realistic for medieval illuminated beasts, which were often fabulous admixtures of fantasy and fur. The unicorn is clearly drawn from life, for example.
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, J. Paul Getty Trust, Research
Risk, Collaborate, Tweet: Charting Next Steps in Digital Humanities at the Getty
Also tagged collaboration, digital art history, digital humanities, metadata, strategy
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Publications, Research
Which Way, Digital_Humanities?
A provocation.
“Ours is an era in which the humanities have the potential to play a vastly expanded creative role in public life.” Will they? More»
Also tagged digital art history, digital humanities, online publishing
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Manuscripts and Books, Research, Voices
Creating “Getty Scholars’ Workspace”: Lessons from the Digital Humanities Trenches
Getty Scholars’ Workspace, an online collaborative working environment, is taking shape at the Getty Research Institute. Lessons from the pilot project. More»
Posted in Art, Publications, Research, Voices
It’s Time to Rethink and Expand Art History for the Digital Age
But is it art history? Google Image Search result for "Mona Lisa"
We need a 21st-century rethink of art history, one that takes us beyond academia to include artistic creation and the reception of artworks by the public. More»
Also tagged art history, digital art history, digital humanities, scholarship, social media, web 2.0
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Getty Foundation, J. Paul Getty Museum, Philanthropy, Publications
Online Scholarly Catalogues: Where Are We Now?
How does the museum collections catalogue, traditionally made for print, fit into today’s world of apps, e-books, and iPhones? It turns out that going digital requires a profound rethinking of the ways in which art historical content can be interactively… More»
Posted in Art, Getty Research Institute
Catalogs of Łańcut Castle Return Home, in Digital Form
The Research Library at the Getty Research Institute has recently finished digitizing historic catalogs of the library of Łańcut Castle in Podkarpackie, Poland, and making them available to the U.S. Consul General in Krakow and the director of the Łańcut… More»
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Creating an Online Collaboration Tool for Scholars
Last month, I gave a presentation with my colleague Tina Shah at the annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Atlanta about an online collaboration tool for scholars that several of us in the Web group at the Getty have… More»
