ARTstor
Shared
Shelf
A Networked Image
Platform
Michael Roy, Dean of Library and Information
Services, Middlebury College
Jeremy Stynes, Head of Media Design
ARTstor
October 13, 2010
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Middlebury Goals
• Reduce number of systems to a more reasonable number
• Establish methods for exchange within campus, and collaborative platform across
campuses
• Provide multiple interfaces to same data store for specific uses: curricular use,
museum collections, research
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ARTstor’s Mission
• ARTstor is a nonprofit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in
the arts and associated fields and contribute to the work of the arts and educational
community.
• ARTstor's primary goals as an organization are:
• To assemble image collections from across many time periods and cultures that
will, in the aggregate, have sufficient depth, breadth, and coherence to support
a wide range of educational and scholarly activities;
• To create an organized, central, and reliable digital resource that supports
noncommercial use of images for research, teaching and learning; and
• To work with the arts and educational communities to develop collective
solutions to the complex challenges that are an inescapable part of working in a
changing digital environment.
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ARTstor History
‘03
‘04
‘05
‘06
‘07
‘08
‘09
‘10
‘11
Personal Collections
Fall 2005
Batch Download to PPT
Larger Image
Download
Fall 2009
January 2008
OIV
August 2004
Public Site
Fall 2002
Institutional Collection Pilot
Program (Hosting)
Images for
Academic
Publishing
Shared Shelf
v. 01 (Beta)
March 2007
June 2004
July 2010
Metasearch/
XML Gateway
ARTstor Digital
Library 3.0
August 2008
January 2006
Associated Images
ARTstor Digital Library
April 2004
January 2009
New Public Site
September 2007
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Systems/tools used for cataloging digital collections
7%
Results gathered from existing and prospective hosted partners’ survey January 2008.
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Shared Shelf partners
Lead partners
Partners
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Shared Shelf components
Cataloging
Tools
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Vocabulary
Warehouse
Digital Asset
Management
Publish to the Web &
Export Tools
Cataloging online
• Simple and complex cataloging supported
• Image record
• Complex authority records
(Works, Names, and geographic terms)
• Ability to add custom fields and controlled lists
• Cataloging efficiencies
• Customizable cataloging templates
• Bulk editing
• Copy/paste functionality on record and field
levels
• Duplicating records
• Community-built shared authorities fully
integrated
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Access and contribute to shared
vocabularies
• Integrates community-built and local authorities directly
in the Shared Shelf interface
• Leverage more than ten years of authority work
championed by the Getty Research Institute
• ULANTM
• TGNTM
• CONATM (in development)
• Enables Shared Shelf community to draw upon shared
terms and submit new “candidate” terms
• Create new authorities, such as the Built Work
Registry (awarded IMLS grant 2010)
• Facilitates faster, more consistent cataloging by
drawing on an aggregated pool of shared authorities
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Manage digital assets
• Support for multi-media resources:
• Still images
• Future: panoramas (qtvr), audio (mp3), video
files
• Ability to upload and remotely store source files
(cloud-based storage)
• Secure storage of source files
• Upload via the Internet or possible use of a
client-based uploading application
• Auto-ingest of embedded data
(select IPTC, XMP, EXIF fields)
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Publish & export
Publish
• Hosted collection
• Institutional access
• Multi-institutional access
• Contributed collection in ARTstor Digital Library
(by nomination)
• ARTstor subscriber access
• Stand-alone website
• Public access
Export
• Export images and data in a standard format
for ingestion into:
• Google Images and Flickr
• Local discovery systems
Interoperate
• Open API
• OAI harvesting / ORE (researching options)
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Your content, Shared Shelf infrastructure
Mixing local &
ARTstor content
Stand-alone
collection website
Cataloging
environment
Shared
vocabularies
Cloud
Computing
Institutional
repository
Asset
management
Flickr
Google
Images
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Options for the release of content
Open Web access
Publically
Accessible Websites
1,300+ ARTstor subscribers worldwide
Contributed
collection
Your institution & designated others
Shared hosted
collections
Your institution
Hosted collection
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Shared Shelf
Beta 0.1
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Screenshots start here…
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Non-art collections
• Multiple schemas map easily to
SS display record
• Partners Subcommittee Group is
charged with identifying other
fields of study and schema to
focus on first
• New metadata models can be
created in Shared Shelf:
– DARWIN Core (Biodiversity informatics
data standard about organisms)
– AVM (Astronomy Visualization
Metadata Standard)
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Shared Shelf progress
Beta 0.1
Cataloging environment
Shared vocabularies
Legacy hosted collection migration
Digital asset management
Authentication and authorization
Technical infrastructure
Administration and self-service features
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Development methodology
Waterfall
Iterative
Test
Build
Plan
Build
Test
Review
cycle
Review
Deploy
Plan
Deploy
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Shared Shelf timeline
2010
2011
Summer 2010
Version 0.1
(Simple cataloging beta)
Winter 2011
Version 0.2
(Simple cataloging release)
Winter 2011
Version 0.3
(Complex cataloging beta)
Summer 2011
Version 0.4
(Complex cataloging release)
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Stay informed
• Visit us online:
• www.artstor.org/sharedshelf
• Email us:
• sharedshelf@artstor.org
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