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Record Nr.

UNINA9910674035303321

Autore

Sandra Van Ginhoven

Titolo

Art Markets and Digital Histories / / Sandra Van Ginhoven, Claartje Rasterhoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 pages)

Disciplina

700.9

Soggetti

Arts - History

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This Special Issue of Arts investigates the use of digital methods in the study of art markets and their histories. As historical and contemporary data is rapidly becoming more available, and digital technologies are becoming integral to research in the humanities and social sciences, we sought to bring together contributions that reflect on the different strategies that art market scholars employ to navigate and negotiate digital techniques and resources. The essays in this issue cover a wide range of topics and research questions. Taken together, the essays offer a reflection on what takes to research art markets, which includes addressing difficult topics such as the nature of the research questions and the data available to us, and the conceptual aspects of art markets, in order to define and operationalize variables and to interpret visual and statistical patterns for scholarship. In our view, this discussion is enriched when also taking into account how to use shared or interoperable ontologies and vocabularies to define concepts and relationships that facilitate the use and exchange of linked (open) data for cultural heritage and historical research.