scholar's resource - vendor slam
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Vendor Slam presentation by Scholar's Resource at the VRA + ARLIS 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.TRANSCRIPT
2011 ARLIS/VRA Vendor Slam
2011 ARLIS/VRA Vendor Slam
March 19, 2011
Scholars Resource is one of the premiere providers of images to
academia.
Why consider Scholars Resource?
• Scholars Resource is noted for its:– Content
– Convenience
– Cost Effectiveness
– Quality of Images
Davis Art Images
CONTENT
• Core Academic Content– Nearly 250,000 professionally photographed
images
– Partnered. Not Donated.
– Extremely high-quality images and metadata
– Exclusive to academia (teaching & research)
– Core curriculum
– Academic & Textbook Sets
• Professional Photographers– Professional photographers representing names
you know and admire:
• Bridgeman• Saskia• Davis• Archivision• Kiracofe• Ken Garrett
• Museums– Collections directly from Museums
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• MFA Boston
• Toledo Museum of Art
• … and one to be announced at end of this presentation
Toledo Museum of Art
CONVENIENCE• Benefits of Ownership
– Store in any format (e.g. VRA Core 4)– Access from any platform (e.g. Insight,
Artstor, MDID, etc)– Any size you need– Print-quality resolution– Infinitely Flexible
• No-cost Infrastructure– Images and data stored on SR website. Free.– Images and Metadata always current– Advanced Search Engine.– IP Authentication available– High-resolution Online Viewer– Available for download– No cost. No work!!
• Academic & Textbook Sets– Academic Sets– Textbook Sets
COST EFFECTIVE
• License in Perpetuity– Convenience and safety of ownership– Rent vs. Own– Scholars Resource is the only aggregator (academic) that gives you this
option.– In your hands – forever.
• Pay for only what you need– Renting entire library not required
You already have us!
• 2.3 Million images in schools around the world
• 300+ schools in U.S. alone
• Available online for download or via hi-resolution online viewer
Image Management / Hosting
• Hosting your own images in-house can be expensive!– Hardware $$$
• Server costs• Disk Storage (LOTS!!) costs• Facility costs• Backup and Redundancy costs
– Personnel $$$• Hardware, Network and Systems administration• Programmers• Web Developers• Database administrators• Management costs
– Ongoing Maintenance and Upgrade $$$
• Outsourcing is not only extremely cost effective, but leverages a provider’s economies of scale to provide safety and availability that would require tens of thousands of dollars per year to do yourself.
• No Brain Damage!!
What Hosting should provide
– Scalable Storage– Image Platform
• Search Engine• Download• Online viewing (is it high-resolution?)• Web-based
– VRA Core 4 based database (for art, architecture, and cultural images)
Three Questions you should ask:
• How easy is it to get my images into your system?
• Is your system cloud-based?• What does it cost?
Real-life example
• 3,000 students (classified as “Very Small”)• 40,000 images• Average size: 4MB for a total of about 1.25 GB
Hosting Calculator
Hosting Calculator
• Just because you are paying more doesn’t necessarily mean you are getting more
• And if you are, is it worth the extra cost?
Join our Facebook Community!
• Insights, news, special offers and discounts
• Free Kindle!– Visit our booth– Become a fan on Facebook
• www.facebook.com/scholarsresource
Announcing! Asian Art Museum of San Francisco !
• Among most comprehensive collections of Art from all across Asia, from Persia to Japan
• 6,000 images within the next few months with 2,000 by mid-April.
• Images not available anywhere else• Watch facebook for announcements