Digital archives
Getty Foundation awards $2.6m in grants to preserve Black visual arts archives
Libraries, museums and archives throughout the US will use the funds to make their collections more accessible through digitisation and—at least in one case—a VR game
Heritagefeature
This art historian is on a quest to ensure the story of Arab art is not lost
Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts
Restitutionanalysis
Digital shadows: what happens to an artefact's data after it is restituted?
Museums are stepping up efforts to return physical objects to their original owners—but repatriation policies often do not consider the digital information associated with them
Middle Eastnews
New digital art archive launched to help Yazidi community rebuild after genocide
Available on the Google Arts & Culture platform, the project is the result of a year-long series of workshops in northern Iraq