Between Tradition and Innovation. Digital Research Infrastructure as a Tool for Transformation in Art Studies: The Case of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Dorota Piramidowicz
dorota.piramidowicz@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Science (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8442-2419
Abstract
The article analyses the results of two projects of the “Digital Research Infrastructure for the Humanities and Art Sciences” DARIAH-PL consortium, implemented as Dariah.lab (2021–2023) and Dariah.hub (2024–2025). Their inclusion in the Polish Roadmap for Research Infrastructure and funding from the Intelligent Development Operational Program (Program Operacyjny Inteligentny Rozwój, POIR) and the National Recovery Plan (Krajowy Plan Odbudowy, KPO) confirm the strategic importance of digitisation for Polish humanities. The transformative impact of advanced digital infrastructure on traditional art research is presented on the example of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Key achievements of the Institute are discussed, namely, the digitisation of phonographic and photographic collections, the “Catalogue of Monuments of Art in Poland” series and selected photographic archive collections and library holdings, as well as the expansion of the Etnofon repository and the development of methods for automatic transcription of musical materials. The author indicates new research opportunities opened by digital infrastructure, as well as by the integration of Polish institutions with the international scholarly ecosystem and the reduction of the technological gap between Poland and Western Europe. These activities are an example of successful interdisciplinary cooperation and synergy of traditional approaches in art studies with advanced digital tools. They open new perspectives for studies on Polish artistic and cultural heritage.
Keywords:
digital research infrastructure, digital humanities, advanced research infrastructure, databases, European projects, digitisation of collections, DARIAH-PL, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Etnofon, dLibra, Catalogue of Monuments of Art in PolandReferences
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Dorota Piramidowiczdorota.piramidowicz@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Science Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8442-2419
Dorota Piramidowicz is an art historian employed at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is the author of scholarly publications related to the cultural heritage of the eastern territories of the former Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, aristocratic patronage, and the artistic foundations of the Sapieha family. She is a co-author and co-editor of several volumes of “Katalog Zabytków Sztuki w Polsce” and the series “Materiały do dziejów sztuki sakralnej ziem wschodnich dawnej Rzeczypospolitej”. She has headed, or participated as a team member, in numerous academic and conservation projects, as well as infrastructure projects (Dariah.lab and Dariah.hub).
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