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ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Needs You!
ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors are seeking volunteers to author reviews for the August 2018
issue. To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our Reviewer Interest form (https://goo.gl/forms/4K4RgU5Gv9dLHIKo1) by Thursday, May, 31.
Initial draft submissions are due Monday, July 2, 2018
Contributing to ARLIS/NA
Multimedia & Technology Reviews is a great opportunity to get involved with the Society, learn about interesting new resources, and help shape the publication. Please feel free to read the complete
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Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:
Melanie Emerson
Gabriella Karl-Johnson
Alexandra Provo
Resources for Review: We seek reviewers for the
following resources.
1. Art Tracks:
http://www.museumprovenance.org
2. Bibliotheca Palatina – Digital:
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/en/bpd/index.html
3. Cities and Memory:
https://citiesandmemory.com/sound-map/
4. The Cultural Histories Series:
https://www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com/
5. Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection:
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/drawn-to-greatness
6. Edcat:
https://edcat.net/
7. New Directory of Art History:
http://www.arthistorians.info/
8. Rembrandt Database:
http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/
Resources for Review: We seek reviewers for the following resources.
**The snippets below are taken from each resource's web page and are not necessarily the opinions of the M&T Reviews Co-Editors
Art Tracks
http://www.museumprovenance.org
Art Tracks is an initiative of the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) that aims to turn provenance in to structured data by building a suite of open source software tools. These tools transform traditional written
provenance records into searchable data, with an emphasis on existing data standards and a strong focus on building tools that are useful (and usable) across multiple institutions.
Bibliotheca Palatina – Digital
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/en/bpd/index.html
A Virtual Reconstruction of the Former Crown Jewel of Germany's Libraries
One of the consequences of the Thirty Years' War was that the most important collection of books in the 17th century Holy Roman Empire, the Bibliotheca Palatina, was divided between two principal locations:
Heidelberg and the Vatican. Since 2001, Heidelberg University Library has been working on several projects that aim to digitize parts of this great collection, the final goal being a complete virtual reconstruction of the 'mother of all libraries'
Cities and Memory
https://citiesandmemory.com/sound-map/
Cities and Memory is a global field recording & sound art project that presents both the present reality of a place, but also its imagined, alternative counterpart – remixing the world, one sound at time.
The Cultural Histories Series
https://www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com/
The Cultural Histories Series offers an authoritative survey of a wide range of subjects throughout history. Each subject is looked at in Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment,
the Age of Empire and the Modern Age and thematic coverage is consistent across all periods so that users can either gain a broad overview of a period or follow a theme through the ages.
** Reviewer will have access to the trial subscription.
Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/drawn-to-greatness
This online exhibition was created in conjunction with the Morgan Library's exhibition Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection, on view September 29, 2017 through January 7, 2018.
Edcat
edcat is an open catalogue for art editions and publications. Search a fast growing database of artists publications. On edcat you can manage your edition collection and your watchlist, sell and buy them
on the marketplace. Contribute and help building the best resource for artists’ editions.
New Directory of Art History
http://www.arthistorians.info/
A thirty-year-old resource emerged today as a modern reference tool for art history. The Dictionary of Art Historians, http://www.arthistorians.info/, announced a new interface, data structure, and user
options, the product of a year-long redesign. The original tool, a website since 1996, was developed privately by Lee Sorensen, the art and visual studies librarian at Duke University. Duke’s Wired! Lab for digital art history & visual culture sponsored the
project beginning in 2016. The new DAH offers searchable data on over 2400 art historians, museum directors, and art-writers of western art from all time periods.
Rembrandt Database
http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/
The Rembrandt Database is an inter-institutional research resource for information and documentation on paintings by Rembrandt – or attributed to him, either now or in the past – in museums around the world.
The Rembrandt Database is open to anyone, but focuses on academic and museum professionals and students. The database is still in the development stage. The contents and functionalities of this website are being improved and expanded continuously.
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Melanie E. Emerson
Head, Ricker Library of Architecture and Art
Assistant Professor, University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
208 Architecture Building | 608 East Lorado Taft Drive | Champaign, IL 61820
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