Description

ARTchives collects detailed archival descriptions of notable art historians' collections. Art historians' personal archives include a variety of sources (papers, expertises, correspondances, photographs etc.) documenting creators' work, their opinions, their favourite primary sources, and their scientific methodologies. The objective of ARTchives is to reconstruct the landscape of art historians' sources and ideas by cataloguing their archival collections and unveal research paths among the surveyed collections. In particular, the focus is on art historians' research topics (artistic periods, genres, themes, artists and artworks), and bibliographic sources. The cataloguing process has been facilitated and enhanced by using Semantic Web technologies. The result is the knowledge graph of art historians, wherein new information on (little-known) art historians is merged with records taken from Wikidata, Open Library (Internet Archive), and Getty vocabularies.