Tudor Paintings Research Data Service
The National Portrait Gallery holds the largest public collection of Tudor and Jacobean period paintings, which is one of the most significant resources for the understanding of visual culture in the English Renaissance. The Gallery has undertaken a major research project—transforming understanding of early painting practice and the production of portraits in the Tudor and Jacobean periods—and a sample of the research results using a range of scientific techniques, including as x-radiography and infrared reflectography, are now available in this pilot research data repository.
State-of-the-art technologies have been used to make this research widely accessible, and collaboration with the hasdai partnership with CERN guarantees that the results are preservable in the long-term at low cost. CERN is one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research and it manages Zenodo, the global catch-all repository for scientific research, on behalf of OpenAIRE.
The pilot repository has been developed with assistance from a Foundation Project exploring practical applications of IIIF, funded by the AHRC through the Towards a National Collection programme, and by Data Futures GmbH.