Brandeis University (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)

The Rose Art Museum will digitize, catalog, and as needed, provide care for more than 30 percent of the museum's collection. The work will focus on art in all media by female and African-American artists as well as the museum's holdings of photography, drawings, and paintings on paper. Only a small portion of these works have any photographic documentation. The museum will create high resolution images, verify or gather accurate cataloging data for all objects and enter it into a collection database, rehouse objects, assess object condition for future conservation work, embed object metadata in digital assets, publish images to the museum's online collections database, and make high-resolution images available. This project will help the museum meet its responsibility to make its collections available to faculty, students, and researchers, as well as the wider public, and it will transform the understanding of this historically import collection.