Recommended Websites


Visual Resources Association
ARLIS
Finding Images on the Web (Boston University Libraries)

Resources for Finding Art and Artists

Google Art Project

ArtTube
Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web (Karen Bouchard at Brown University)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access to Images for Scholarly Content
Smart History
Looking for Good Art:  Web Resources and Image Databases
Mark Harden's Artchive
Artcyclopedia
WebMuseum
Art History Resources on the Web
World Images
Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page
Web Gallery of Art
Best of History Websites
Art Images for College Teaching
National Gallery of Art
Museum of New Zealand
Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)
TASI's Finding Art Images
Vircona:  Data Base of Native North American Artists
Art in Context
African Studies Center's Multimedia Archives (University of Pennsylvania)
Art Crimes (Graffiti)
Dadabase (MoMA)
The Sistine Chapel
The Glascow School of Art Archives and Collections
Ask/Art: The Artists' Bluebook
Mapping Gothic France

Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, Fair Use

Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright (VRA)
Licensing Digital Information (Yale University)
Copyright and Art Issues
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (Cornell)
Copyright Crash Course (University of Texas)
Artists Rights Society


Resources for Audio and Video

The Association of Moving Image Archivists
Moving Image Collections
National Film Registry
National Film Preservation Board
Frequently Asked Film and Video Copyright Questions (UC Berkeley)
Copyright and Licensing Resources
Netherlands Media Art Institute On-Line Catalog


Digitization Projects and Best Practices

Image Collection Guidelines (VRA)
Howard Brainen's (Two Cat Digital) Guide to Managing a Digitization Project: "Decision Tree"
Christina Updike:  Development of the Digital Image Database (scroll down)
Getty Guides
Digital Photography Reviews and News

Art History and Digital Scholarship

Kress Foundation Study: "Transitioning to a Digital World, Art History, Its Research Centers, and Digital Scholarship
Getty Research Portal (Digitized Art History Research Texts)


Digital Image Cataloging and Metadata Management

Getty Vocabularies
Cataloging, Metadata, and Data Management (VRA)


Commercial Vendors and Non-Profit Providers of Digital Images

Scholars Resource
AICT: A Free-Use Educational Resource
Hartill Art Associates


Image Management and Delivery Software

MDID wiki