Newfields

Newfields will conduct a multi-year project to redesign and expand its online art and historical collections into a single, integrated collections portal. In addition to the delivery of art collection data and assets, the integrated collections portal will serve as an access point to archival collection descriptions, item-level information, and digitized records relating to Newfields' historic properties and the Indianapolis Museum of Art's 138-year history. This project will support two full-time positions, a Digitization and Metadata Specialist and a Rights Researcher, as well as a User Testing contractor who, along with a cross-departmental museum team, will develop, publicize, and launch the new integrated collections portal. The resulting portal with open-access infrastructure will make Newfields' resources more widely available to researchers and the public.