Artresearch

The Artresearch.net website acts as a centralized scholarly repository built upon the ResearchSpace open-source knowledge engine to unify heterogeneous assets from major European and North American photographic archives. The platform hosts a corpus indexing millions of distinct photographs, artworks, artist biographical entries, and repository locations using a structured CIDOC-CRM data ontology. Key features of the system include an integrated IIIF image viewer, record reconciliation modules, and dual-track search utilities that let users explore connections via literal text matching, conceptual textual similarity, or AI-powered image similarity tools. Tailored for an international audience of art historians, digital humanities scholars, academic researchers, and educators, the site delivers high practical value by removing institutional barriers to analog photo archives and utilizing computer vision to streamline comparative study on global iconography and art provenance.