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New technologies for data and image storage and their application to the history of art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Michael Greenhalgh
Michael Greenhalgh*
Affiliation:
Department of the History of Art, University of Leicester
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Abstract

In general terms, this paper is about the possibilities newly available to art historians, because of the new cheapness, of computing, and the problems which still exist in the areas of data and image storage, retrieval and display. First it tries to assess the technology from a layman’s point of view, then ventures into the contentious matter of how many art historians (in these days of reduced funding) are either able or willing to take advantage (if there are advantages) of new technology. Threading throughout the paper are doubts about whether the use of computers can or will advance the study of the subject (as opposed to making that study easier), and about whether the finance for some of the hardware mentioned could ever be raised by any non-scientific department.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Summer 1982 , pp. 67 - 81
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1982

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