Publications

Forthcoming

Provenance as Accountability: Transparent and Verifiable Cataloguing for the Digital Age

• Authors: Lynn Rother, Max Koss, Fabio Mariani
• In: Elgar Research Handbook on Art, Culture, Heritage and Law
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Expected: 2026

What's in a Name? Measuring the Potential of Provenance Data for Art Market Studies and the History of Collecting

• Authors: Max Koss, Bárbara Romero Ferrón, Lynn Rother
• In: Hand and Glove: Art Market Studies and the History of Collecting, ed. Blair Brooks and Natasha Degen
• Publisher: Brill

The Politics of Custody and Ownership: Provenance Events as a Modeling Stress Test

• Authors: Lynn Rother, Bárbara Romero Ferrón, Max Koss
• In: Kunst und Digitaler Humanismus, ed. Hanna Brinkmann and Anna Frasca-Rath
• Publisher: Springer

2025

PROV-A, a Web-Based Tool for Structuring Provenance as Linked Open Data

• Author: Fabio Mariani
• Journal: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (ZfdG), vol. 10
• DOI: 10.17175/2025_012
• URL: zfdg.de/2025_012
• Open Access: Yes

2024

People Information in Provenance Data: Biographical Entity Linking with Wikidata and ULAN

• Authors: Fabio Mariani, Max Koss, Lynn Rother
• Journal: Život umjetnosti (Life of Art), vol. 114, no. 1, pp. 148–161
• DOI: 10.31664/zu.2024.114.07
• URL: hrcak.srce.hr/en/323487
• Open Access: Yes

Interpreting Strings, Weaving Threads: Structuring Provenance Data with AI

• Authors: Lynn Rother, Max Koss, Fabio Mariani
• In: Sammlungsforschung im Digitalen Zeitalter: Chancen, Herausforderungen und Grenzen, ed. Stefan Alschner and Katharina Günther
• Series: Kulturen des Sammelns: Akteure, Objekte, Medien, vol. 6
• Publisher: Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, pp. 93–103
• DOI: 10.15499/kds-005-008
• URL: wallstein-open-library.de/9783835356153-008.html
• Open Access: Yes

The Future of Provenance: Digital Cataloguing as Reparative Practice

• Authors: Lynn Rother, Max Koss, Fabio Mariani
• In: The Next Horizon of Museum Practice: Voluntary Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations, ed. Elizabeth Merritt
• Publisher: American Alliance of Museums (AAM), Arlington, VA
• URL: aam-us.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/HorizonPapers-Rother-Koss-Mariani.pdf
• Open Access: Yes

Verknüpfte Daten: Die Zukunft der Provenienzforschung

• Authors: Lynn Rother, Fabio Mariani, Max Koss
• Journal: Museumskunde: Fachzeitschrift für die Museumswelt, vol. 89, no. 1/2, pp. 26–31
• Date: December 5, 2024
• Language: German

East Germany Comes to New York: The 1993 SoHo Venture of Leipzig's EIGEN + ART

• Authors: Lynn Rother, Frank Eckart
• In: MIEJSCE, no. 10
• DOI: 10.48285/ASPWAW.29564158.MCE.2024.10.17
• URL: miejsce.asp.waw.pl/en/autor/lynn-rother/
• Open Access: Yes

Towards Wikidata: How to Transform Provenance with AI

• Authors: Fabio Mariani, Lynn Rother
• Conference: Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 (PLW 2024), Berlin & Online, January 12–14, 2024
• Type: Presentation
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10555215
• URL: zenodo.org/records/10555215
• Open Access: Yes (CC BY 4.0)

2023

Hidden Value: Provenance as a Source for Economic and Social History

• Authors: Lynn Rother, Fabio Mariani, Max Koss
• Journal: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 111–142
• DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2023-0005
• URL: degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jbwg-2023-0005/html
• Open Access: Yes

Teaching Provenance to AI: An Annotation Scheme for Museum Data

• Authors: Fabio Mariani, Lynn Rother, Max Koss
• In: AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications, ed. Sonja Thiel and Johannes Bernhardt
• Publisher: transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 163–172
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839467107-014
• URL: transcript-open.de/doi/10.14361/9783839467107-014
• Open Access: Yes (CC BY 4.0)

Introducing VISU: Vagueness, Incompleteness, Subjectivity, and Uncertainty in Art Provenance Data

• Author: Fabio Mariani
• In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2022 (Lausanne, June 9–10, 2022), ed. Yannick Rochat, Coline Métrailler, Michael Piotrowski
• Series: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3602, pp. 63–84
• URL: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3602/paper5.pdf
• Open Access: Yes

Linking (In)Completeness: A Collaborative Approach to Representing People in Art Provenance Data

• Authors: Fabio Mariani, Lynn Rother, Max Koss
• Conference: Digital Humanities 2023, Graz, Austria
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8107371
• URL: zenodo.org/records/8107371
• Open Access: Yes

2022

Taking Care of History: Toward a Politics of Provenance Linked Open Data in Museums

• Authors: Lynn Rother, Max Koss, Fabio Mariani
• In: Perspectives on Data, ed. Emily Lew Fry and Erin Canning
• Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
• URL: artic.edu/digital-publications/37/perspectives-on-data/25/taking-care-of-history
• Open Access: Yes

The Expert in the Loop: Developing a Provenance Linked Open Data Management Platform

• Author: Fabio Mariani (on behalf of the Provenance Lab)
• Conference: Digital Humanities 2022, Tokyo
• URL: dh-abstracts.library.virginia.edu/works/11822
• Open Access: Yes

Uncanny Provenance: Art History and its Double

• Author: Lynn Rother
• Journal: Texte zur Kunst, no. 128
• URL: textezurkunst.de/en/128/lynn-rother-uncanny-provenance/

2020

Interview: Brigitta Milde in Conversation with Lynn Rother on Carlfriedrich Claus

• Authors: Lynn Rother, Brigitta Milde
• Publisher: post (MoMA's online platform)
• URL: post.moma.org/interview-brigitta-milde-in-conversation-with-lynn-rother-on-carlfriedrich-claus/
• Open Access: Yes

2017

Kunst durch Kredit: Die Berliner Museen und ihre Erwerbungen von der Dresdner Bank 1935

• Author: Lynn Rother
• Publisher: De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
• ISBN: 978-3-11-049452-5
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110496093
• Language: German
• Description: Award-winning doctoral monograph examining the largest art deal of the Nazi era — the Berlin State Museums' 1935 acquisition of 4,400+ works for 7.5 million Reichsmarks from the Dresdner Bank.