The Getty Foundation's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) is a group of nine museums working together to develop models for the publication of scholarly collection catalogues in the online environment. The online catalogues, tools, and lessons that result from the OSCI collaboration are openly shared with the larger museum community. Generous support from the Getty Foundation enabled SAM to imaginatively implement this pilot project, assess every object and take new photographs, conduct in-depth research and travel to compare with like works elsewhere, and most importantly, commission essays from expert scholars, professors and curators.