ArtSTOR
Rights Expression and
management in the supply chain
Multimedia Aggregator
by 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
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Schlesinger 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/licen
ses/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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Hierarchical Storage
Management
Systems
Asset
Metadata
IP rights
Management System
Production
Metadata
Legal
Data warehouse
ARTstor public site
User
With
Browser
Offline
client
External
System
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Final
Derivatives
TIFF
Image
Production
System
Mgmt/QC
data
Hierarchical
Storage
Management
Systems
Online
disk
XML
Export
REL
Near
Line
tape
Central
Repository
ARTstor
Collections
Backup
tape
MARC
Records
Institution
Collections
EXCEL
ACCESS
Public
Repository
Intellectual
Property
Rights
Systems
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JSTOR
Browser
based
Smart client
XML
Gateway
www.artstor.org
IBCLMS
Proprietary
API
OAI XML Repository
(ORACLE)
Standard
Repository
API
RLI API
DSPACE
FEDORA
Blackboard, WebCT
ENDNOTE
Learning
Mgmt
System
API
(ZING SRW)
Request/deliver
Stable URL
A&A
UCB
Scholar
Box
JMU
MDID 2.0
Princeton
Almagest
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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