The ERC-funded ARTECHNE project aims to understand technique in the arts by integrating methodologies typical for the humanities and historical disciplines with laboratory work. The DH Lab has successfully ported an existing database of manuscripts and recipes to a more modern look and added new options for querying the database (e.g. faceted search, GIS). Also, we will use Linked Open Data to collect information on authors and materials from sources like the Getty Vocabularies.