The online art catalogue that chronicles a stolen African heritage
Anne Luther, a digital heritage specialist and one of Digital Benin’s principal investigators, hopes the project will be a model for other communities that want to explore how technology can be used to help them reconnect with and reclaim stolen artifacts. “Before Digital Benin, digital restitution was not a conversation being had by larger institutions,” Luther says.
In building the catalogue, the team received more than 400 data sets from 131 institutions in 20 countries, which they then drew from in order to make…