New Approaches to Old Art: The launch of NGA Online Editions' Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

Jennifer E. Henel
National Gallery of Art

 

Notes

¹ This text is largely based on the essay "Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century: The National Gallery of Art's First Online Scholarly Catalogue," in Technology and Digital Initiatives: Innovative Approaches for Museums, ed. Juliee Decker (Lanham, 2015). The site for the Getty's Online Scholarly Catalogue (or "OSCI") can be found here: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/osci/index.html. I would like to thank all of my OSCI colleagues for their collaboration on this important project, most especially Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. and Judy Metro for their excellent insights and editorial suggestions.

² Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century can be accessed at this site: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/online-editions/17th-century-dutch-paintings.html

³ See National Gallery of Art. Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Washington, 1941.

⁴ See Christopher White, "Review, Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century: The collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue by Arthur K. Wheelock," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 139 (October 1997), 698-699, accessible at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/887546.

⁵ See: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/osci/

⁶ In addition to viewing other projects by fellow OSCI participants, IMA Labs (http://lab.imamuseum.org/about/), the for-profit arm of the Indianapolis Museum of Art was engaged to create a basic, open-source toolkit (the OSCI toolkit [http://www.oscitoolkit.org/]) for museums wishing to create an online scholarly catalogue. The Toolkit is available free-of-charge.

⁷ The Museum System (TMS): http://www.gallerysystems.com/products-and-services/tms/

⁸ Toky Brading + Design: http://toky.com/

⁹ Iconclass: http://www.iconclass.org/

¹⁰ Design for Context: http://www.designforcontext.com/

¹¹ Adobe CQ5: https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-5.html

¹² NGA Online Edtions: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/online-editions.html

¹³ IIP Moo Image Viewer: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/documentation/iipmooviewer/

¹⁴ NGA.gov: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html

¹⁵ PURL.org: https://purl.org/docs/index.html

¹⁶ As quoted in the NGA press release on the Wittenborn award http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/press/2015/wittenborn-award.html

¹⁷ Paul Jaskot's keynote, "Digital Art History: Old Problems, New Debates, and Critical Potentials," delivered at the Phillips Collection to kick off the symposium Art History in Digital Dimensions (University of Maryland, October 19-21, 2016) (http://dah-dimensions.org/), keenly underscored this point of exploring social histories through the lens of art history and vice versa. He also has repeatedly championed the notion that the process should count toward tenure positions, challenging the long-held belief that the final publication is the only work product of worth.

¹⁸ Miklós Boskovits (1935–2011), Jason Di Resta, Italian Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Paintings, NGA Online Editions, http://purl.org/nga/collection/catalogue/italian-paintings-of-the-thirteenth-and-fourteenth-centuries (accessed October 10, 2016).

¹⁹ Nancy Anderson, Charles Brock, Sarah Cash, Harry Cooper, Ruth Fine, Adam Greenhalgh, Sarah Greenough, Franklin Kelly, Dorothy Moss, Robert Torchia, Jennifer Wingate, American Paintings, 1900–1945, NGA Online Editions, http://purl.org/nga/collection/catalogue/american-paintings-1900-1945 (accessed October 10, 2016).