Access to cultural heritage is essential to the advancement of society. Yale carries out its mission to improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice, facilitated through the free exchange of ideas in an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community. In service of this mission, LUX facilitates and promotes open access to Yale’s data and digitized resources whenever possible.
Yale University has adopted international standards to facilitate reuse of its cultural heritage data and content. Images are available via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) for seamlessly gathering, presenting, and annotating content from collections at Yale and around the globe. Data is provided as Linked Open Data, using the Linked Art specification, and connects to other institutions' knowledge where possible.
LUX exposes longstanding and deep bias within our acquisition activities, collection systems, and descriptive practices. Some content, and the description of that content, is outmoded, racist, and culturally insensitive. Yale’s cultural heritage institutions commit to identifying and addressing these issues, and also to being transparent about documenting such processes.
We actively welcome feedback and insight on items and descriptions represented in LUX. Access our feedback form.
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