Data-Sharing Partnerships

LUX is a digital platform that enables users to search across Yale’s museums, archives, and library collections. This includes works of art, archives, scientific specimens, and other cultural heritage items held at the University. Since its foundation in the early 18th century the University has encouraged, accumulated, and actively built its collections in the service of its educational mission. LUX supports this mission by making many of these objects and resources accessible, so that new knowledge and understanding can be built by those within and beyond Yale.

The principal online public access catalog (OPAC) for Yale University contains records for more than 10 million items. This online catalog includes the Center’s Rare Books and Manuscripts and Reference Library collections.

Created by the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation, Art UK is a website which aims to show the entire United Kingdom national collection of oil paintings online. Its content represents paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions from around the UK and beyond.

Google Arts & Culture is a collaboration between Google and some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums. Powered by a broad, connected suite of Google technologies, this resource presents the Center’s collections with those of other great museums and is accessible to an unprecedented global audience.

The Artstor Digital Library provides more than two million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. The library’s community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists’ estates.

The American Art Collaborative (AAC) is a consortium of fourteen US institutions—thirteen museums and one archive—working together to create a critical mass of Linked Open Data (LOD) around the subject of the visual arts in America.