Methodology
How a record is made.
An archive is only as good as its method. Every entry on Artelix carries its provenance: where the data came from, who reviewed it, and under what license its images appear.
Sources
Records enter the archive through four documented channels, each labelled on the record:
- Editorial — researched and written by our editors, space by space, city by city.
- Open data — factual metadata from public knowledge bases (Wikidata, under CC0), imported with stable identifiers so every record can be traced back to its source.
- Community — contributions from registered members, published only after editorial review, always credited.
- Partners — galleries and institutions documenting their own programme under a standing license.
Images and licensing
We publish only images we have the right to publish: free-licensed photographs (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, public domain — license and photographer credit shown on every image), images submitted by their rights holders, or images covered by freedom-of-panorama provisions for public artworks. We do not scrape copyrighted reproductions. This is slower — and it is why the archive can last.
Review
Nothing publishes itself. Community submissions and imported records pass through an editorial queue; entries that cannot be verified are declined with a note, never silently. Every published record remains editable as better information arrives.
Corrections
Found an error — a wrong year, a misattributed work, a missing artist? Write to vince.barath@artavizo.com and we correct the record. Corrections are part of the method, not an embarrassment.
Citing the archive
Every artwork, artist and space page carries a Cite this entry button with a stable reference. Records are identified by permanent slugs; imported records also carry their external identifiers (e.g. Wikidata QID) for cross-referencing.