This article considers the various ways that the Art Institute of Chicago’s digital scholarly collection catalogues engage with art history in the digital realm. Since 2009, when the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) was invited by the Getty Foundation to participate with a group of other museums to create a platform for museum collection catalogues online, the AIC has been a leader in this growing field. The digital platform we designed has proven to be the ideal vehicle to present our research in a dynamic manner. Through several case studies, we will demonstrate how these publications have not only made contributions to the field of digital art history through the presentation of primary archival source material online, but have also facilitated the incorporation of digital art history into our methodological toolbox. This paper also discusses the challenges of digital publishing as compared to more traditional, print-based workflows.

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数字艺术史和博物馆：芝加哥艺术学院的在线学术收藏目录

本文考虑了芝加哥艺术学院的数字学术收藏目录在数字领域与艺术史互动的各种方式。自 2009 年芝加哥艺术学院 (AIC) 受盖蒂基金会邀请，与其他一些博物馆一起参与创建在线博物馆藏品目录平台以来，AIC 一直是这一不断发展的领域的领导者。我们设计的数字平台已被证明是以动态方式展示我们研究的理想工具。通过几个案例研究，我们将展示这些出版物不仅通过在线展示原始档案源材料对数字艺术史领域做出了贡献，而且还促进了将数字艺术史纳入我们的方法工具箱。