ARLIS/NA Technology Review: LUX: Yale Collections Discovery
LUX: Yale Collections Discovery is an ambitious digital discovery platform that aggregates Yale University’s cultural heritage and natural history collections. Using a Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) Linked Art model and a backend knowledge graph structure, LUX centralizes the collection catalogs of Yale University Library, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Peabody Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery. Launched publicly in late May 2023, the platform supports research, learning, and teaching by providing access to over 50 million records for objects, concepts, people and groups, events, places, and works; unveiling…read more