Editing Art museum (section)

=== Online art collections ===
There are a number of online art catalogues and galleries that have been developed independently of the support of any individual museum. Many of these, like American Art Gallery, are attempts to develop galleries of artwork that are encyclopedic or historical in focus, while others are commercial efforts to sell the work of contemporary artists.

A limited number of such sites have independent importance in the art world. The large auction houses, such as [[Sotheby's]], [[Bonhams]], and [[Christie's]], maintain large online databases of art which they have auctioned or are auctioning. [[Bridgeman Art Library]] serves as a central source of reproductions of artwork, with access limited to museums, [[art dealer]]s, and other professionals or professional organizations.

==== Folksonomy ====
There are also online galleries that have been developed by a collaboration of museums and galleries that are more interested with the categorization of art. They are interested in the potential use of [[folksonomy]] within museums and the requirements for post-processing of terms that have been gathered, both to test their utility and to deploy them in useful ways.

The [[steve.museum]] is one example of a site that is experimenting with this collaborative philosophy. The participating institutions include the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]], the [[Cleveland Museum of Art]], the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], and the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]].