ARTstor Beta is now available to all ARTstor participants. With the release of ARTstor Beta we are introducing a new technical platform and user interface that will make searching, browsing, and organizing images in the Digital Library faster and easier. As you begin working in the ARTstor Beta environment, you will immediately notice that ARTstor [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Introducing ARTstor Beta
Posted in Technology, Tips & Tools on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ARTstor breakfast at ALA annual conference
Posted in Events on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ARTstor will hold a participants’ meeting on Monday, June 30 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the annual American Libraries Association conference in Anaheim, CA.
The agenda will include a collections update, a discussion of interdisciplinary uses of ARTstor, and a technology update with a focus on ARTstor Beta—our new Digital Library interface and software [...]
More European art and architecture from Scala Archives
Posted in Collections, Image Quality, Survey on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Through an ongoing collaboration with Art Resource and Scala Archives (Florence, Italy), ARTstor has just released 2,848 additional images of major Italian and other European works, bringing the total number of Scala images now available in ARTstor to more than 13,000. ARTstor will ultimately make available approximately 12,000 high-quality images of European art and [...]
Upcoming Collection: Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain Collection
Posted in Collections, Medieval Art & Architecture in Europe on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ARTstor is collaborating with the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain [CVMA (GB)] and the National Monuments Record, the public archive at English Heritage, to distribute approximately 18,000 images of medieval English stained glass windows in the Digital Library.
Founded in 1949, the CVMA (GB) is an international research project dedicated to the publication of [...]