Detector Tool Tutorial: ranking by number of Red Flag and Restitution Case Names

This post, in the educational series on the experimental digital tool for analysing provenance texts, demonstrates Ranking by Red Flag Names (photo: Albright-Knox).

Work in progress. Feedback welcome.

The Reaper with a Sickle Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

 

The Reaper with a Sickle

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)

1838

Tutorial for the Looted Art Detector: Using custom indicators

Note: 12NOV2024 The Looted Art Detector is undergoing an update on Pythonanywhere and will be back in service soon

Looted Art Detector: Part 2 Using custom indicators

example with : ALIU Red Flag restorers

The user can analyse provenances for any names or words that seem interesting.

The list below contains the last names of art restorers who were investigated by the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit for their role in the art market for Nazi-looted art.

Looted Art Detector Tool: Swiss GLAMHACK2021

Note: 12NOV2024 The Looted Art Detector is undergoing an update on Pythonanywhere and will be back in service soon

TRY IT!

Objective: Identify high priority artworks for provenance research

Description: Online Free Digital Tool

URL: https://artdata.pythonanywhere.com

Approach: Automatic text analysis using frequency counts

note: The frequency counts target textual indicators of UNCERTAINTY, UNRELIABILITY,  or ANONYMITY, as well as the possible presence of RED FLAG names related to NAZI-looted art, forced sales and duress sales. 

The resulting calculations do not signify that an artwork is looted. They simply quantify observations concerning the text for further analysis.

How it works: 

Cultural property at the Oberfinanzdirektion München Bundesarchiv: archives

 

DE-1958_354da674-59a2-477f-9c9d-20da7f0840c6 

https://open-data.bundesarchiv.de/apex-ead/DE-1958_B_323.xml

In attempting to verify one of the names that appears in a provenance with an extremely high Uncertainty Index (Bottenwieser), we stumbled upon an archive file (xml) in German that contains the names of many plundered Jewish collectors (and other people as well).  

Are there names here that should be plugged into the Looted Art Detector? 

Below is a Google translation of the first few paragraphs of the German text followed by the text itself. 

(archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20210715022418/https://open-data.bundesarchiv.de/apex-ead/DE-1958_B_323.xml)

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Fiduciary management of cultural property at the Oberfinanzdirektion München Bundesarchiv 2010