IT and museums: The Princeton University Art Museum is undergoing a multi-year initiative to digitize its collections

The Princeton University Art Museum is undergoing a multi-year initiative to digitize its collections and archives for students, scholars, researchers and others. Over 97,000 artworks have been digitized, including more than 6,000 images and related photographic material by the American modernist Minor White.

Digital images of all works in the collections will be available via the museum's website in 2017. Digitization of associated bibliographies, interpretive writing and more is ongoing and will continue over the coming years.

A significant facet of the museum's digitization efforts is the two-year digitization and cataloging project providing online access for the first time to the most significant photographic content of the Minor White Archive. The project was funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and includes over 6,000 finished prints, artist's proof cards and bibliographic history. It represents the foundation for a centralized authoritative resource for White research and scholarship and is available on the museum's website.

Minor White (1908-1976) was one of the most important photographic artists and teachers active during the 30 years after World War II, and a key figure in shaping a distinctly modern American photographic style.