Dallas Museum of Art receives $85,000 grant for digital archiving

When finished in 2012, the project will give access to 10 years of DMA exhibitions online.

The Dallas Museum of Art received an $85,000 grant on Monday from the National Endowment for the Arts. A press release calls this grant the "fourth prestigious award" from the endowment since 2007; it will go toward the Access to Archival Exhibition Resources Online (AAERO) project, to be completed in 2012. This system will give Internet users access to 10 years of DMA exhibition documentation.

According to a press release, AAERO will also:

... support the translation into Spanish of selected contemporary art exhibition brochures and transcripts of program recordings where an artist is the featured speaker. Earlier this year, the DMA created an online audio resource, in the Research section of the DMA website, to provide access to selected audio recordings and transcripts of lectures with artists, curators, and other scholars. It can be found here.

The digital archivist at the museum explains the impact of the AAERO project:

“The AAERO project will create a centralized gateway for researchers, both the public and museum staff, to access exhibition information that currently exists in several storage locations,” said Hillary Bober, Digital Archivist at the DMA. “By creating this template, the digital archives will be able to make available for immediate use thousands of installation images, recorded lectures, press and marketing materials, and much more, generating a complete picture of an exhibition at the DMA.”

Source: Dallas Museum of Art