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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
NearLinetape
Backuptape
CentralRepository
FinalDerivatives
ARTstorCollections
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
Box
RLI API Blackboard, WebCT
XMLGateway
JSTORStandard
RepositoryAPI
DSPACE
FEDORA
ENDNOTE
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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