Reframing Art: Opening Up Art Dealers' Archives to Multi-disciplinary Research

摘要

The archival resources digitally available to scholars have been transforming rapidly in the past few years, an evolution in evidence in museums and galleries as well as in the wider field of art history. This change was, at first, operational: as the use of the Internet became more widespread from the late 1990s onwards, museums, libraries and archives started to place their catalogues online.1 Then, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, projects were developed to digitise selected items from library and archive collections.2 Such projects enabled researchers to gain remote access to flat images of archival material, and the scope of these digitisation projects has only increased in recent years, with more images being added to websites across the world; attention is now turning to the examination and extraction of the data contained in those flat images.3