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RKD Explore: searching for art-historical information in the 21st Century*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Roman Koot
Roman Koot*
Affiliation:
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, Prins Willem Alexanderhof 5, 2595 BE The Hague, The Netherlands
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Abstract

In 2014 the RKD launched RKD Explore, a new interface for searching the collection databases. This state-of-the-art search engine provides a multitude of search possibilities. And although most of the art-historical information is still in analogue form in The Hague, RKD Explore lets users really explore the richness of the ever-growing digital content of the databases.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , 2015 , pp. 21 - 27
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2015

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Footnotes

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The author is much obliged to Jan Thielen and Reinier van ‘t Zelfde for their valuable comments and to Kirsten Wilson for the English translation of the text.

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