ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the types of data produced by or within galleries, museums, archives and libraries, the ways in which such data is made available to audiences and how provenance research relates to open access data. Depending on the discipline, field of study, and objects, digital provenance research is often interdisciplinary, operating at the interface of computer sciences, design and one of the following theoretical approaches: sociology of art studying the social worlds that construct a discourse of art and aesthetics; the social history of art concerned with the social contribution to the appearance of certain art forms and practices; economics and art business exploring global economic flows and the influence of wealth and management strategies of art; art theoretical discourses on concepts relating to a philosophy of art and therefore closely related to curating and art criticism; and art history with research in provenance, image analysis, and museum studies.
