Architecture of Dublin - ARTstor collaboration
The School of Art History and Cultural Policy is collaborating with ARTstor, the nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences, to share 620 images of the architecture and built environment of Dublin. ARTstor comprises contributions from museums, libraries, photo archives, scholars, artists, and photographers, and aims to include visual materials that are useful for teaching and research in a variety of subjects from prehistory to the present. The development of the ARTstor Digital Library is always ongoing and the School is collaborating with them to develop their holdings of Dublin's architecture from the medieval to the early modern period.
Included in the collection of 620 images the School is currently digitising are many of Dublin's major civic and ecclesiastical buildings, together with important examples of domestic architecture. The collection in ARTstor will include images of the exteriors, interiors, and decorative details of individual buildings as well as streetscapes and general views of the built environment. Together, these images provide valuable documentation of the historic and ongoing changes to the urban fabric of Dublin, whether through development, demolition, or conservation.
The collection in ARTstor is drawn from the school's extensive collection of 35mm slides and 200 of the images were digitized as part of the UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) project.
ARTstor can be accessed through UCD Library electronic resources.
