The Yale Center for British Art Makes More Artwork Available on the Google Arts & Culture Online Platform

The Yale Center for British Art is pleased to announce their latest contribution of collections data and images to Google Arts & Culture, which allows the public to explore collections from around the world. The publication of 16,392 works through Google’s online platform represents an increase of more than 10,000 works since the last data exchange in 2011. In keeping with Yale University’s open access policy, all of these artworks in the Center’s collection are believed to be in the public domain and are now accessible through the Google Arts & Culture’s website and mobile app.
Google Arts & Culture now showcases aspects of the Center’s collection that may be new even to those familiar with the museum. There are a number of photographs from the Center’s Prints and Drawings department, along with a host of acquisitions of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper made since 2011.
This partnership with Google Arts & Culture was possible because the Center expresses its collections data to programmatic services such as Google in the Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO) format. The Google team has worked diligently with the Center to transform the data for the requirements of the Google Arts & Culture interface. Thanks to the Center’s digital infrastructure, Google was able to access the Center’s images from the museum self-service image endpoint. In this way, the Center’s data exchange capacity allows the museum to undertake large projects like this to support its educational mission and to make its collections available to the widest possible audience.
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