This project is grounded in extensive collaboration, and we encourage the following citation to credit proper authorship (shown in APA style, please adjust according to your preferred style):
Agbontaen-Eghafona, K., Azzi, M., Bodenstein, F., Coulson, I., de la Croix, E., Ekhator-Obogie, O. G., Fine, J., Luther, A., Müller, D., Obobaifo, E., Oviahon, O. M., Plankensteiner, B., & Uboldi, G. (2024, July 1). Digital Benin. Retrieved from https://digitalbenin.org/.
URLs on the site were built to cite specific pages, each object, each provenance name, each Edo designation etc. have their own unique URL:
Ahianmwẹ-Ọrọ. Agbontaen-Eghafona, K., Azzi, M., Bodenstein, F., Coulson, I., de la Croix, E., Ekhator-Obogie, O. G., Fine, J., Luther, A., Müller, D., Obobaifo, E., Oviahon, O. M., Plankensteiner, B., & Uboldi, G. (2024, July 1). Digital Benin. Retrieved from https://digitalbenin.org/eyo-oto/25
URLs on the site were built to cite collections or filters, which means that the filters one applies to their search do not disappear, they are stored in the URL:
Objects by Justus Brickman in the MARKK’s collection shown on Digital Benin. Agbontaen-Eghafona, K., Azzi, M., Bodenstein, F., Coulson, I., de la Croix, E., Ekhator-Obogie, O. G., Fine, J., Luther, A., Müller, D., Obobaifo, E., Oviahon, O. M., Plankensteiner, B., & Uboldi, G. (2024, July 1). Digital Benin. Retrieved from https://digitalbenin.org/catalogue?page=1&filter=institution-24.provenance-807
Digital Benin collates digital material from institutions, and some of this material is inherently colonial and contains words, terms and phrases that are inaccurate, derogatory and harmful towards African and African diasporic communities. Catalogue transcriptions, book titles, exhibition titles and museum titles may contain harmful terms. We recognise the potential for the material to cause physical and mental distress as well as evoke strong emotions. Owing to the scale of the collection’s data, a process to implement sensitive-content warnings in the displayed data is still incomplete. The material within the catalogue does not represent Digital Benin’s views. Digital Benin maintains a strong anti-colonial, anti-racist position and affirms its support for centring the humanity of historically marginalised and disenfranchised communities. Read more about the background of this statement here