Ermeline de la Croix collaborates closely with Dr. Felicity Bodenstein on the research and writing of the Digital Benin-authored provenance data. She identified over one thousand unique provenance names in the data transferred by the institutions and co-authored over fifty biographies. She linked all provenance data to the controlled vocabularies that she established for provenance names and roles on the platform. This research led to the development of the ‘Provenance’ space on the platform, which allows users to access the provenance names and linked objects. The provenance data was linked to external websites such as Wikidata, Getty vocabulary and others. Ermeline De la Croix and Felicity Bodenstein are establishing provenance research and tool development for internal and external use.
Biography
Ermeline de la Croix studied Law, Art History and Archaeology at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. After obtaining a double bachelor’s degree, she specialized in Heritage and Museums in the same university. Her first master's thesis focused on the Iy’Ọba Idia ivory uhunmwu-ẹkuẹ kept in the British Museum. Now in her second year of master’s degree, she is working under the direction of Dr. Felicity Bodenstein for both Digital Benin and her second thesis, which focuses on Benin wooden uhunmwu-elao.