Nft art, credits: Marco Verch Professional Photographer

What is NFT art?

Definition, problems and the need for a digital library

NFT art is a controversial new form of digital art. It consists on digital artworks cryptographically registered with a token on a blockchain. Even if blockchains are openly available, nowadays the easiest way to access NFT art on the web is through the digital art marketplaces.

This direct dependence of NFT art to the market, shift the focus from the art itself and it can bring to perceive NFT art as commodity. A digital library is a solution both to underline the alterity of NFT art from the market and to provide an alternative, decentralized way to access it.

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The architecture of the digital library

The NFT Art Digital Library

Users identification and goals

The NFT Art Digital Library addresses the needs of two kind of users: it provides a way to access NFT art for all those users who are not highly skilled in computer programming; it offers an alternative to all those users who do not have a buying purpose. The creation of a digital library for NFT art will avoid the marketplace centralization, providing NFT art access, interoperability and preservation

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Conceptual model for Linked Open Data

A Semantic Digital Library

Search and discover NFT Art through meta image search and CBIR

An NFT art can be searched through the image meta search, i.e. retrieval based on the queries by keywords that will be matched against the tags, title, author and description metadata of the NFT art. Once and item is selected, suggestions will be provided by means of the content-based image retrieval, i.e. retrieval based on similarity of features between the contents of the images.

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A Semantic Digital Library

some essential open-access elements implemented in The NFT Art Digital Library

LOD standards

Semantic Web and Social Networking technologies are used to improve access and interoperability.

AI

Artificial Intelligence aims at improving semanticity and provide more refined information retrieval services.

Community based

The NFT art related in community contribution both to enlarge the collection and for monitoring the authenticity