For decades, the Getty Provenance Index has been making available to researchers information from source documents such as archival inventories, sales catalogs, and dealer stock books describing ownership or transfers of ownership of art since roughly the 16th century, with a strong focus on European and American paintings. After many years reimagining how the GPI could not only facilitate current research but also stimulate new forms of scholarship and new types of uses, the new GPI, powered by Linked Open Data (LOD), launched on the Arches platform on May 1st.
As part of this first LOD release, information from the 2.2 million entries from the dealer stock books and sales catalogs databases has been transformed into over 12 million resources representing people, groups, objects, activities, provenance activities, places, and source documents, exposing complex networks of relationships. While this first release marks the completion of years of work on data transformation, it is also the starting point for exploring modes of engagement with linked data in a collaborative way. This introduction to the new GPI will focus on the approach taken to the remodel and delve into its new possibilities, including how this transformation fits Getty’s aim to create a consistent, connected, and collaborative digital environment.
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 18:00 CEST
Belvedere Research Center (Rennweg 4, 1030 Wien) and via Zoom.
Registration: info@darthist.at (until 10 June 2025)
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