Visual Analysis & Collection Research
Associations
Discover thematic and associative relationships between objects based on visual and contextual meaning. This creates new access points for collection research, curation and digital access.
Not all relationships within a collection are directly visible in metadata or descriptions. Objects can be connected through shared motifs, themes, forms, materials, historical context or symbolic meaning. These associative relationships are valuable for research, presentation and public storytelling. With Associations, we help make such relationships visible by combining visual characteristics and contextual information.
We help detect thematic and associative relationships between objects based on visual and contextual meaning. We look not only at descriptive metadata, but also at similarities in image, subject, material, use, period or cultural context. This reveals relationships that might otherwise remain hidden and creates new opportunities for collection research, narrative access and exhibitions in which objects are connected on content-related or visual grounds.