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ARTstor: A Global Network for Promoting Local CollectionsMCN Taiwan 2010

ART on FILE: Eco Boulevard; Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos; Belinda Tato; Jose Luis Vallejo; Diego Garcia Setin, 2005, Bulevar de la naturaleza,

Barcelona, photo ART on FILE


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Origins of ARTstorFrom slide library to online image library

1826: First permanent photo

1937: First Kodak slide projector

1984: First digital camera

1995: First web browsers

1998: Google founded

2004: Kodak discontinues slide

projector

2004: ARTstor Digital Library

launches July 1st


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If you think in terms of 1 year, plant a

seed; if in terms of 10 years, plant trees;if in terms of 100 years, teach thepeople.

Confucius, The Analects

(551 BCE 479 BCE)

Teaching and sharing cultural heritage

Wang Hui; Wang Shimin: Landscapes after ancient mountains (1674/1677), Detail from Leaf G: Wang Hui (16321717): Peach Blossom Spring followingZhao Chengzhi's Methods of Using Color, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1989 (1989.141.4arr). Image The

Metropolitan Museum of Art

I think the whole world is more ready, withthe Internet, with film festivals and DVDs.It used to be a one-way street from Westto East: we were receiving and the West

was producing. I think were getting

closer and closer. The gap betweencultures is getting erased every day.

Ang Lee


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Nonprofit organization

Sustainable, reliable resource

Educational, noncommercial uses only

1.1+ million images

150+ distinct collections

Ongoing additions of new images

Promote collections from museums,libraries, photo archives, artists, artists

estates, photographers, and scholars

Marble seated harp player, Cycladic (culture field), late Early Cycladic I-Early Cycladic II. ca. 2800-2700 B.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Rogers Fund, 1947 (47.100.1). Image The Metropolitan Museum of Art

ARTstor- 5th birthday July 1, 2009!


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ARTstor keyword search for jade


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Google Images search for jade


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Art, architecture, humanities, andsocial sciences

Western and non-western art

Ancient to the present

All media

Teaching and research collections

Detail from Dogon Dance of the Masks, James Conlon: Mali and Yemen Sitesand Architecture, photograph taken 2008, photo James Conlon

ARTstor Digital Library:Interdisciplinary, universal collections


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Universal collections

The Metropolitan Museum

of Art enables works of artto be contemplated andstudied not in isolation but

in comparison with othertimes, other cultures, and

other media.

Philippe de Montebelloformer Director

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ralph Lieberman: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (faade), photo 2008, photo Ralph Lieberman


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Museums The Metropolitan Museum of Art National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC J. Paul Getty Museum and Research Institute Berlin State Museums Museum of Modern Art New Museum The Cleveland Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection

Libraries and photo archives Bodleian Library (University of Oxford)

Frick Art Reference Library Erich Lessing Fine Arts and Culture Archives Scala Archives Mellon International Dunhuang Archive The Illustrated Bartsch

Photographers, scholars, and artists Magnum Photos Mark Rothko Estate Elizabeth Peyton Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Larry Qualls: Contemporary Art Jonathan Bloom, Sheila Blair, Walter Denny:

Islamic Art and Architecture

Jacqueline Barnitz: Modern Latin American Art Machteld Johanna Mellink: Ancient Near

Eastern Sites (Bryn Mawr)

University collections Harvard University Peabody Museum

Yale University Art Gallery Princeton University Illuminated Manuscripts Columbia University: QTVRs Smith College Museum of Art

Search across 150+ collections in ARTstor, including:


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Password-protected website

Encrypted software

Intuitive software tools andworkspace

International network

Serve 200,000+ curators, scholars,educators, students, librariansworldwide

From silos to networkConnecting collections, connecting users


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Broad international reachmore than 1,200 institutions


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Reach a wide range of educational users:scholars, curators, educators, librarians, and students


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Growth in usage:Custom collection usage reports for contributors

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Year to date through December 2009

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Keyword search


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Browse by geography, classification, collections

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ARTstor enables you to look at the whole image

Attributed to Han Gan, Chinese, active 742-756, Night-Shining White, Tang dynasty (618-907), 8th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1977 (1977.78). Photographed by Malcolm Varon. Image The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Zoom into the image

Attributed to Han Gan, Chinese, active 742-756, detail from Night-Shining White, Tang dynasty (618-907), 8th century. The MetropolitanMuseum of Art, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1977 (1977.78). Photographed by Malcolm Varon. Image The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Study details

Attributed to Han Gan, Chinese, active 742-756, detail from Night-Shining White, Tang dynasty (618-907), 8th century. The MetropolitanMuseum of Art, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1977 (1977.78). Photographed by Malcolm Varon. Image The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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zoomed detail

Download exact detail as 72 dpi JPEG

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Metadata record attached to each image

Contributor URL

Rights contactinformation

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Annotate images

Add your own commentaryand bibliography to:

Instructor notes(hide, restrict, or make

public to everyone at your

institution)

Personal notes(can be seen only by you)

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Artists rights, permissions, and legal review

ARTstor performs legal review on each image in the Digital Library.We have agreements with the following rights organizations:

Artists Rights Society (ARS)

Visual Artists and Galleries Association (VAGA) Bildkunst of Germany

Beeldrecht of the Netherlands BONO of Norway BUS of Sweden Copydan of Denmark DACS of the United Kingdom Prolitteris of Switzerland SIAE of Italy VEGAP of Spain SABAM of Belgium

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Shared Shelf: image management softwareA new endeavor

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Shared ShelfIMATA (Image + Data) cataloging tool

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Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)Integrated in IMATA

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Thank you, MCN Taiwan!

Attributed to Han Gan, Chinese, active 742-756, Detail from Night-Shining White, Tang dynasty (618-907), 8th century. The MetropolitanMuseum of Art, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1977 (1977.78). Photographed by Malcolm Varon. Image The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Christine Kuan

Director of Collection

Development

ARTstor

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