Digital humanities · Collection data
Reading museum collections as data.
I'm Marco Zhang, a lecturer at the Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, Shantou University. I work across cultural policy, visual culture, and digital humanities — turning open museum datasets into visual arguments, and publishing the code and caveats behind them.
数字人文 · 馆藏数据 · 视觉文化
At a glance
From the M+ study →94%
of Sigg works are visual art — against 28% in the full M+ collection.
98%
of Sigg creators are Chinese nationals — against 13% overall.
2002
median year of Sigg works — against 1985 for the collection.
Selected work
M+ Collection · Case study
Sigg Collection vs. the M+ Collection
Four ways of reading institutional focus: era, category, medium, and nationality — and what a single donation can, and cannot, tell us.
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Met Collection · Case study
The colour signature of 220 paintings
Image-feature analysis of the Met's Chinese painting corpus — what a machine sees before it sees a dynasty.
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