Good starting point
CAA List of Art Image Banks, http://www.collegeart.org/ip/ip_image
Federated Collections
Sites that pull in digital items from many different sources for a shared repository of sources:
- ArtStor: http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml
- ArtBabble: http://artbabble.com/.
- CLAROS, http://www.clarosnet.org/XDB/ASP/claroshome/index.html
- Europeana: http://europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=who%3A+Vincent+van+Gogh
- Google Art Project: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-project Table 5
- Smithsonian Collections: http://www.si.edu/Collections
GLAM collections
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
- Archives of American Art, http://www.aaa.si.edu/.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Research Image Catalog, http://library.clevelandart.org/search_images
- Getty Open Content: http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online
- Museum of Modern Art, http://www.moma.org/collection/advancedsearch.php
- Museo Nacional del Prado, https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/
- NGA Images, https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html Table 3
- Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
- Victoria and Albert Museum, http://collections.vam.ac.uk/
- Walters Art Gallery, http://art.thewalters.org/
Catalogues Raisonne
- Isamu Noguchi, http://catalogue.noguchi.org/
- Jan Brueghel: http://www.janbrueghel.net/Main_Page
Scholar Collections
- Transatlantic Encounters, http://chnm.gmu.edu/transatlanticencounters/
- John Resig, Ukiyo-e, http://ukiyo-e.org/
Auction Sites
- Christie’s, http://www.christies.com/?sc_lang=en
- eBay, http://ebay.comTable 2
Machine-Readable Collections, APIs
- Getty Research Institute, Provenance Index Databases, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/search.html
- Museum APIs: http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs
- API example for afternoon: Te-Papa Collections Data, https://github.com/te-papa/collectiondata Table 1
- Examples of what can be done with an API, Brooklyn Collection Application Gallery, http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/docs/application_gallery; Cooper-Hewitt Experience, http://www.cooperhewitt.org/new-experience/, Serendipomatic, http://serendipomatic.org/