International Journal for Digital Art History: Issue 2, 2016

Big Data and Big Image Data (BID) open up tantalizing new vistas to the art historian. BID as a sub-category or - better yet - an extension of Big Data affords the possibility of processing and analyzing massive amounts of visual material using computational methods. BID will provide art historians with a whole new set of analytic tools, adding new tonal range to our discipline without discarding any of the traditional art historical methods.