Yale’s new research tool will lead you down a rabbit hole of knowledge
Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT. Elizabeth Felicella LUX, a free new tool from Yale University, is perfect for research projects where you want to be led down a rabbit hole of infinite connections adjacent to a subject of interest. It’s a central hub that contains 17 million searchable objects across Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries. The tool works somewhat like a search engine. However, search engines tend to return hits that then offer you links to travel onwards to a new site. LUX builds relationships between the object you’re searching for and other related objects in the collection. It goes beyond the objects themselves and finds obscure connections. For example, if you were searching for a piece of artwork, it would surface other works from the same author,...