MoMA Artwork Wayback URLs for Provenance Audit, 2015

2015 Internet Archive Wayback Machine URLs for pages of artworks in the Museum of Modern Art online collection. The dataset was created by Laurel Zuckerman as part of a longitudinal study of provenance information changes from 2003 to 2025. It serves as an audit trail for identifying and retrieving historical versions of MoMA collection pages.

Use Cases

• Track changes in provenance information over time based on historical webpage captures.
• Verify the accuracy and completeness of museum collection records based on archived snapshots.
• Build an audit trail for digital cultural heritage based on Wayback Machine URLs.
• Extract and compare provenance text from different historical versions of collection pages.

Strengths

• Dataset is part of a longitudinal study spanning 22 years (2003–2025).
• Created by a named author (Laurel Zuckerman) and a specific research project.
• Last updated metadata indicates recent curation (2026-06-14).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2015 snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) online collection and Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Collection Method

Created as a support dataset for identifying, verifying, and retrieving historical webpage captures.

Time Range

2015 snapshot, part of a study from 2003 to 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-14 08:21:34.