The Digital Platform Transforming Art-Historical Research | Katina Magazine

"In the fall of 2018, we sent the first boxes of reproductions of artworks from the collection to a scanning company for digitization. But digitization alone is not sufficient to support the researcher. We also needed to create a search system to allow optimal access to the material and provide tools for comparison and annotation to make the found materials easy to study. Users had previously been able to access digitized materials in the collection through a platform called RKDexplore. But we needed to create a true digital research environment that integrated images, metadata, and tools for scholarly analysis. This combination of digitized image material and an interface with search and analysis capabilities was realized in the RKD Research website, which went live in December 2023."