Cultural Heritage Data for Research – An Introduction

This article is an introduction to the collected essay volume ‘Cultural Heritage Data for Research – Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery’, published in vol. 10.2, 2024 and vol. 11.1, 2025 of the Open Library of Humanities Journal (see https://olh.openlibhums.org/issue/905/info/). The introduction highlights some methods of approaching humanities data, and sheds light on current trends. In particular, it focusses on museum data as research data for Art History and Cultural Heritage Studies and describes new ways of data querying.