CLAROS - Bringing Classical Art to a Global Public

CLAROS (Classical Art Research Online Services; www.clarosweb.org) is an international interdisciplinary research initiative led by the University of Oxford (Humanities and Mathematics and Physical Sciences), hosted by the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC, www.oerc.ox.ac.uk), and inspired by the Beazley Archive (www.beazley.ox.ac.uk) participating in EU R&D projects. During 2009, a pump-priming grant from the University´s Fell Fund enabled CLAROS to integrate on line more than two million records and images held in research centres in Oxford, Paris, Cologne and Berlin. CLAROS uses CIDOC CRM (http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/), developed under UNESCO´s ICOM (http://icom.museum/), to map across datasets and a portfolio of Open Source software to deliver them swiftly to a broad range of global users. Data web applications for integration are being developed by Zoology (http://ibrg.zoo.ox.ac.uk/), image recognition by Engineering Science (www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/), and artificial intelligence by the Oxford Internet Institute (www.oii.ox.ac.uk). CLAROS will welcome new institutional members and engage with the public to document art and disseminate results.