1. Digitizing and Encoding Art Collections and Archives For Research, Museums, and Art Production

2. PROBLEMS For the Visual Art Researcher 1.High Quality Images are too large to use easily. 2.Images are poorly tagged and coded. 3.No standards adhered to for coding makes images hard to find. 4.Copyright and Paywalls

3. Internet and coding in general is language-biased. “hypertext” “semantic web” Roland Barthes “The Rhetoric of the Image” 1964 Semiotic analysis of an Image John Baldessari Pure Beauty oil on canvas 1968

4. Barnett Newman Vir Heroicus Sublimus 1950-51

6. Partial Solutions Attempts to standardize encoding of visual art objects CIDOC: Comité des Documentation des Organization Culturelle Visual Resource Association CORE Make materials searchable across institutions by standardizing the encoding of the material.

7. Develop nifty platforms for sorting cultural heritage material that is useful for scholars

8. Projects 1. Art History and the “Digital Humanities”

9. 2. Virtual Architectural and Archeological Reconstructions and Virtual Tours

10. 3. Museum and Archive Based Digitization Projects

11. Warhol Museum’s Capsule 21 Project

12. 4. Artist-run sites for cataloging, archiving, community and promotion/exhibition

13. Digicult

14. What’s Needed to Make Digitization the Best Cultural Heritage Outreach and Research Strategy 1.More money and support for visual art digitization projects. 2.New technology that can automate part of the process of database development and encoding. 3.Further development of user-friendly but USEFUL interfaces for both scholars and the general public.