Examples of different types of art history collections.

CAA List of Art Image Banks

http://www.collegeart.org/ip/ip_image

Federated Collections

Sites that pull in digital items from many different sources for a shared repository of sources:

• ArtStor: http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml
• ArtBabble: http://artbabble.com/.
• CLAROS, http://www.clarosnet.org/XDB/ASP/claroshome/index.html
• Europeana: http://europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=who%3A+Vincent+van+Gogh
• Google Art Project: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-project
• Smithsonian Collections Search Center, http://collections.si.edu/search/

GLAM collections

Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums

• Archives of American Art, http://www.aaa.si.edu/.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Research Image Catalog, http://library.clevelandart.org/search_images
• Getty Open Content: http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online
• Museum of Modern Art, http://www.moma.org/collection/advancedsearch.php
• Museo Nacional del Prado, https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/
• Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
• Van Gogh Museum created the Vincent VanGogh, the Letters, digitized archive, http://vangoghletters.org/vg/
• Victoria and Albert Museum, http://collections.vam.ac.uk/
• Walters Art Gallery, http://art.thewalters.org/

Some GLAM collections are only available in an app for a tablet or smartphone
• Brooks Museum, website http://brooksmuseum.org/permanentcollection vs the apps, http://brooksmuseum.org/apps.
• MOMA’s AB-EX exhibition catalog

University Collection Sites

• Leonard da Vinci and his Treatise on Painting, University of Virginia: http://www.treatiseonpainting.org/home.html

Auction Sites

• Christie’s, http://www.christies.com/?sc_lang=en
• eBay, http://ebay.com

Machine-Readable Collections, APIs

• Museum APIs: http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs
• Examples of what can be done with an API, Brooklyn Collection Application Gallery, http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/docs/application_gallery; Cooper-Hewitt’s Collection Color History, http://dataclimber.net/blog/2014/1/19/cooper-hewitts-collection-color-history, Serendipomatic, http://serendipomatic.org/