There is an ongoing trend to digitize museum collections. A good example is the Rijksmuseum, whose digitization project started in 2007 and covers their complete collection containing over one million items. Many of them are already extensively annotated with title, artist, dating, size of the work etc. When we look specifically at the digital paintings collection of the Rijksmuseum, we can filter out about 1800 paintings. Studying this subcollection through data and tools together with a computer scientist, we identified a number of themes we found interesting from both an art historical and a digital perspective. This resulted in a website consisting of 5 stories where the visitor can connect to artworks in the Rijksmuseum interactively. You can explore the results yourself on www.visualizingvisions.com.

1. Visualizing Visions
Floor Koeleman

2. Skills & expertise
Design Art History
Digital
Humanities
HTML,
CSS,JS

3. PhD Candidate in
(digital) Art History
For my ongoing PhD research
I am investigating the use
of digital tools for art
historical research.

4. Rijksmuseum digital collection
● 1.000.000 items in collection
● Of which 850.000 are prints
● C. 6000 paintings
○ 4399 with images
○ 1818 with detailed annotations
○ 671 with Iconclass codes (represented subjects)
○ 303 with production place (geographical info)
● 7 annotators x 30 items/day
● Expected to be finished in ~2027

5. Annotator at work in the Rijksmuseum

6. Links
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● http://rijksmuseum.github.io/
● http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5577
● http://visualizingvisions.com/

7. Contact
Floor Koeleman
floor.koeleman@uni.lu
www.visualizingvisions.com