Digital Initiatives is a column that explores digital tools, research resources, publications, and learning opportunities in art history and related fields, with a special focus on topics relevant to Ars Orientalis readers. Each volume will present a series of reviews or discussions around an interconnected set of digital resources or projects, written by scholars or other practitioners. If you would like to propose a topic for a future edition of Digital Initiatives, please email Nancy Micklewright at [email protected].

Digital Initiatives 45 focuses on the digital publication of museum-based scholarship in the field of Asian art. Featured are two reviews of new online scholarly catalogues, as well as a short piece considering the broader relationship between museum-based scholarship and the digital realm.

Museums, Scholarship, and the Digital - Nancy Micklewright

Southeast Asian Art at LACMA: An Online Scholarly Catalogue - Brinda Kumar

Getty Foundation’s Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative of Chinese Painting & Calligraphy at the Seattle Art Museum - Kevin McLoughlin

Ars Orientalis Volume 45

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