Two more world-class collections have joined LinkedCulture.

Two more world-class collections have joined LinkedCulture. The Minneapolis Institute of Art (~34,000 objects) and an expanded Paris Musées (~43,000) are now part of LinkedCulture’s unified semantic map.

They join the Getty, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, and The Met, bringing the total to 300,000+ objects across 8 institutions.

LinkedCulture doesn’t replace any museum’s catalogue. It surfaces the relationships between collections. A Persian textile at the Art Institute sits beside its kin at the Met and the Rijksmuseum, discoverable in a single search that crosses institutions and languages.

Every object links back to its home museum. The canonical record always stays with the institution that holds it.

Explore it: https://linkedculture.org/

The research behind this series is documented in several papers: Paper 1: Discovery architecture for cultural heritage: layered retrieval, institutional authority, and the limits of keyword search https://linkedculture.org/research/discovery-architecture-for-cultural-heritage

Paper 2: Discovery architecture for cultural heritage: layered retrieval, institutional authority, and the limits of keyword search https://linkedculture.org/research/embedding-cultural-heritage-metadata

Paper 3: Semantic Clusters and Language Partitioning in a Multi-Institutional Cultural Heritage Index https://linkedculture.org/research/semantic-clusters-language-partitioning

Learn more about LinkedCulture and the work behind it: https://linkedculture.org/