Hi Everyone, the Art Institute just announced the publication of their first online scholarly catalogues (OSCI) for Monet and Renoir:
*Monet and Renoir: Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago* <http://www.artic.edu/research/digital-publications/online-scholarly-catalogues/?&utm_medium=listserv&utm_source=mcn-l&utm_campaign=osci&utm_content=8-13-14> Below is part of the official announcement, if you get a chance to take a look, please share your thoughts! The volumes feature forty-seven works by Monet and twenty-five works by Renoir. Entries on the paintings and drawings include new art historical research and unprecedented high-resolution imaging that allows readers to zoom in to see the artist?s brushstrokes, as well as previously unpublished technical photography that unveils information hidden beneath the surface of the artwork through interactive, layered images showing X-ray, infrared, and other technical imaging. Conservation reports on each artwork offer in-depth studies of the artist?s process and incorporate new scientific data on his materials. Other features include a glossary, scanned archival materials, and biographical information about significant historical collectors for the museum. Funded by the Getty Foundation and the Art Institute?s David and Mary Winton Green Nineteenth-Century Research Fund, with additional staffing support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and scientific research support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these catalogues are part of the Getty Foundation?s Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI). In 2009 the Getty Foundation launched OSCI in partnership with the J. Paul Getty Museum and eight other museums and issued them a challenge to transition from printed scholarly catalogues to multimedia, web-based publications. The goal of the consortium was to create online catalogues that would dramatically increase access to museum collections; make available new, interdisciplinary, up-to-date research; and revolutionize how research is conducted, presented, and utilized. The digital publishing team at the Art Institute of Chicago conceived and managed the Monet and Renoir projects and oversaw the development of the ChicagoCodeX, which has served as the foundation of the open-source, digital publishing platform OSCI Toolkit (oscitoolkit.com). The ChicagoCodeX is an enormous achievement and a vital part of the multimuseum OSCI project. Free to the public, the Monet and Renoir catalogues are the first in the online series *The Impressionist Circle at the Art Institute of Chicago*. Three more volumes, focusing on Camille Pissarro, ?douard Manet, and Paul Gauguin, will be released in 2015 and are supported by the Mellon Foundation. Another online catalogue funded by Mellon, dedicated to the Art Institute?s collection of Roman art, will be published in December 2015. -- Tina Shah Senior Web Application Developer The Art Institute of Chicago tshah2 at artic.edu 312-499-4027