ArtSTOR

Rights Expression and management in the supply chain

Multimedia Aggregatorby Dr. Bill Ying

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What is ARTstor?

A not-for-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that is developing a digital library of art images to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities

– A primary resource: online Image collections and descriptive data

– A scholarly and pedagogical resource: software tools to enable active use of content

– A non-profit resource: solely for non-commercial educational and scholarly use

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Overview of ARTstor Digital Library

– What you can do with ARTstor• Search and Browse collections• Analyze images using zoom and pan• Save groups of images for personal use, group use or

institution-wide access• Presentation / slide-show tools

– What you will see in ARTstor• Digital images and descriptive data• Initial collections include art, architecture and archeology • Total number of images in charter collections: ~300,000

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Overview of ARTstor’s Collections

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The ARTstor Charter Collections:Research Objectives

Work with a variety of content providers– Libraries, museums, photo archives, publishers, slide libraries

Test a variety of approaches to building collections– Direct digital capture

– Scanning photographic sources (transparencies, prints, slides)

– Cost-benefit analysis

Assess the user’s experience– What approaches work best for a variety of users, a variety of uses, in a

variety of institutional settings?

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The Image Gallery

The connecting fabric of the ARTstor Library

Ca 200,000 images, most made from color 35mm “copystand” slides

Teaching gallery based on relatively representative undergraduate curricula

Subset of 4,000 images based on key monuments illustrated in standard art history survey texts

Item level cataloging records available for all images, with topical subject access

Discourages redundancy and allows campuses to use limited resources judiciously

Point of departure for a collaborative image and data enhancement program

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The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection

Example of a digital museum collection catalog

8,000 images from 6,200 objects

Digitized via direct digital capture

Extremely high resolution images

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The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive

Example of an archeological documentation project

40 caves out of several hundred

Digitized via direct digital capture

Extremely high resolution

3D virtual tours of the shrines

Working with major institutions in US, UK and France to digitize versions of materials originally located at Dunhuang

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The Illustrated Bartsch

Example of a digital art reference work

Ca 57,000 images of old master European prints, with rich cataloging and scholarly commentary

Based on 100 volume authoritative print publication

Digitized from 5x7 b/w prints

ArtSTORSchlesinger History of Women in American Collection

This image has been made available by the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University solely for noncommercial educational and scholarly purposes. Your use of this image is restricted to those permitted uses specified in the ARTstor Digital Library Terms and Conditions of Use.To request permission for any other use, please contact the Schlesinger Library.

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Institution collection

A photographic collection of live insects from North and Central America

License – based on Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

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Overview of ARTstor Interface and Tools

Web-based interface accessible from www.artstor.org– User-Friendly system to support teaching and research

• Search and Browse collections• Analyze images using zoom and pan• Save groups of images for personal use, group use or

institution-wide access• Presentation / slide-show tools

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Offline image viewer

User want an offline client based image viewer so Professors can teach and present offline independent of Internet connectivity

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Some of ARTstor’s Challenges

Building the ARTstor Digital Library– Managing a complex production process

• Coordinating flow of images, text, and other resources from multiple sources and vendors

• Absorbing collections with widely varying metadata structures and image quality• Working without universally accepted standards

– Developing intuitive software tools to support a variety of uses

Making the ARTstor Digital Library available and useful– Understanding ARTstor’s users and potential audience

– Identifying where ARTstor ‘lands’ within an institution organizationally

– Developing scalable solutions for interoperability, access & authorization

– Implementing effective digital rights management and actionable rights expressions

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AssetMetadataIP rights

Management SystemARTstor public site

Production Metadata Legal

Hierarchical Storage Management

Systems

Data warehouse

UserWithBrowser

Offlineclient

ExternalSystem

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ImageProduction

System

TIFF

Mgmt/QCdata

Hierarchical Storage

ManagementSystems

Onlinedisk

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FinalDerivatives

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MARCRecords

InstitutionCollections

EXCEL ACCESS

IntellectualPropertyRights

Systems

XML ExportREL

PublicRepository

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XML Repository(ORACLE)

www.artstor.orgIBCLMS

ProprietaryAPI

OAI

Browser based

Smart client

LearningMgmtSystem

API(ZING SRW)

Request/deliverStable URL

A & APrincetonAlmagest

JMUMDID 2.0

UCBScholar

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RLI API Blackboard, WebCT

XMLGateway

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RepositoryAPI

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Interoperability: What we know

ARTstor needs to be a centralized resource for the following reasons

– To learn more about uses of digital images and users’ needs

– To offer more interactive tools to those who want them

– To create a regulated space for non-commercial use

Users will almost certainly want to use ARTstor content and tools along with other digital image resources and software platforms

Need to develop and implement a consistent expression and management of rights for all digital content in ARTstor