The web presentation of the AIIS photographic archive is a joint venture of the AIIS and the Digital South Asia Library program. The data included been collected and edited by AIIS staff in Gurgaon, now Gurugram. Programming and database design have been undertaken by DSAL program staff in Chicago.

The original AIIS collection is organized into four separate collections, architecture, sculpture, paintings and numismatics. The web version of the AIIS photograph archive has combined these four collections into one for ease of searching and display.