Moving a Hundred-Year-Old Series Online: Gettys Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

Published: April 29, 2020, 8:15 a.m.

b'How do you reimagine a century-old reference series for the digital age? In 1919, a French archaeologist started the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, or CVA, with the ambitious goal of cataloging every ancient painted vase in the world. Nearly 400 volumes, compiling some 100,000 vases, have been published to date by museums, making the CVA one of the most important resources for researchers working on ancient Greek art and culture. Getty\\u2019s most recent addition to the CVA is the first born-digital, open-access volume of this essential series. \\n\\n\\n\\nIn this episode, Despoina Tsiafakis, the author of Getty\\u2019s new CVA volume and the director of research at the Athena Research and Innovation Center in Greece, speaks with Getty curator David Saunders and Getty digital publications manager Greg Albers about the history of the CVA and the process of bringing the series to a new digital platform.\\n\\n\\n\\nFor images, transcripts, and more, visit getty.edu/podcasts.'