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ARTstor: drivers wanted
Carleton is one of 25 schools serving as a beta site for the image library ARTstor, the Mellon-funded sister project to JSTOR (a digital archive of more than 350 core academic journals) is a digital library of art images. ARTstor will eventually provide access to millions of images in architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, and archeological and anthropological objects. ARTstor will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information, along with software tools to enable active use of image collections, and the creation of personal collections, for research and teaching.
From now until the end of spring term, a test version of ARTstor is available by clicking on the ARTstor link in the upper right of the library's home page. The beta version available for Spring term testing is limited in several ways:
- It only contains a limited set of images (about 168,000 images).
- It cannot be configured for off-campus use.
- There are still problems using ARTstor with Macintosh computers and with certain browsers.
Give it a spin and tell us what you think by completing the user feedback form. What kinds of uses might you make of a resource like this?
Prizes for creative uses of ARTstor
There will be prize ($100 gift certificate to a local book store or art supply store; winners choice) for the most creative use of ARTstor. At the end of the term there will be an ARTstor Fest to display the work of entrants and talk about the future of this resource on campus.
If you would like support in using ARTstor, contact your academic computing coordinator or your liaison librarian.
What is ARTstor?
ARTstor is a nonprofit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ARTstor is developing a digital library that offers collections of art images and descriptive data as well as software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor content includes images of art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including analyzing images, saving groups of images online, and creating presentations. This community resource is available solely for noncommercial educational and scholarly uses.
ARTstor's primary goals 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 resource on the Internet that supports noncommercial use of images for research, teaching and learning;
• To work with the arts and educational communities to derive collective solutions to the complex challenges that are an inescapable part of working in a digital environment.
Access to ARTstor
Artstor is only accessible from computers on the Carleton College campus network. Users need to create an account on the ARTstor site in order to create image libraries. No account is needed to browse or download image files.
ARTstor is in beta release. Please give us your feedback!
You may well find there are problems with this program, especially if you are using a Macintosh; Mac users should use the "ARTStor for Macintosh users" link below. ARTstor is still a beta release so problems do exist. Feel free to send your bug reports or ideas for improvement to ehinsdal@carleton.edu or use this feedback submission form.
Use ARTStor Now (PC users)
ARTStor Frequentlay Asked Questions
Sam Demas for the image Management Project: Michaela Brenner (Library), Heidi Eyestone (Art), Mollie Freier (Library), Eric Hinsdale (Library), Baird Jarman (Art), Alison Kettering (Art), Julie McFadden (ITS), Stephen Mohring (Art), Andrea Nixon (ITS), Louis Weinberg (ITS).