The Scholar

Ask questions about any document or image

The Scholar is a chat that answers questions about a specific object — its context, its contents, and what it depicts. Open any item in a collection and start a conversation.

How it works

Pick an object

Open any document or image in one of our collections.

Ask anything

Ask what it shows, when it's from, who made it, or how it relates to the rest of the collection. The Scholar answers from the object and its metadata.

Conversations are saved

We now keep the back-and-forth, so good exchanges can be revisited and shared.

Still in progress

The Scholar is actively being built. A short screencast and a real sample conversation will appear here soon.