The Met and ARTstor: Images for Academic Publishing
From The Attic's Chicago-based correspondant:
Metropolitan Museum and ARTstor Announce Pioneering Initiative to Provide Digital Images to Scholars at No Charge
In a new initiative designed to assist scholars with teaching, study, and the
publication of academic works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will distribute,
free of charge, high-resolution digital images from an expanding array of works
in its renowned collection for use in academic publications. This new service,
which is effective immediately, is available through ARTstor, a non-profit
organization that makes art images available for educational use.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art has long sought to address the significant
challenges that scholars confront in seeking to secure and license images of
objects from the Museum's collections," stated Metropolitan Museum
Director Philippe de Montebello in making the announcement. "We hope,
through this collaboration, to play a pioneering role in addressing one of the
profound challenges facing scholars in art history, and scholarly publishing,
today."
ARTstor's Executive Director, James Shulman,added: "By taking such a bold step in supporting publications based on art-historical research, the Metropolitan is providing enormous leadership to the entire sector. Scholars – in higher education and in museums – have been struggling with the question of how digitization might help to enable, rather than hinder, scholarly communications. For all involved, it is obvious that, when faced with an important directional challenge, the Metropolitan is providing decisive leadership."
Initially approached by the Metropolitan Museum in 2005 to develop this initiative, ARTstor has worked in close consultation with Metropolitan Museum
staff to create its new service, entitled "Images for Academic
Publishing" (IAP), which will make images available via software on the
ARTstor Web site ( www.artstor.org). Initially, nearly 1,700 images
representative of the broad range of the Metropolitan Museum's
encyclopedic collection will be available through the more than 730
institutions that currently license ARTstor. Efforts to expand this
accessibility are now underway and will be announced by ARTstor at a later
date. For more information about ARTstor's plans for its "Images for
Academic Publishing" service, please send email to IAP@artstor.org
ARTstor,a digital image library, was created in 2001 as a non-profit initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is now an independent non-profit organization
dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the arts and humanities. The
more than 730 non-profit institutions currently participating in ARTstor are
located in North America, Australia,
and the United Kingdom.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – founded in 1870 with a mission to collect,
preserve, and display works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture from
every part of the globe, and to educate the public about art – is the
most comprehensive art museum in the Western Hemisphere with a collection now
including more than two million works of art.
Metropolitan Museum and ARTstor Announce Pioneering Initiative to Provide Digital Images to Scholars at No Charge
In a new initiative designed to assist scholars with teaching, study, and the
publication of academic works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will distribute,
free of charge, high-resolution digital images from an expanding array of works
in its renowned collection for use in academic publications. This new service,
which is effective immediately, is available through ARTstor, a non-profit
organization that makes art images available for educational use.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art has long sought to address the significant
challenges that scholars confront in seeking to secure and license images of
objects from the Museum's collections," stated Metropolitan Museum
Director Philippe de Montebello in making the announcement. "We hope,
through this collaboration, to play a pioneering role in addressing one of the
profound challenges facing scholars in art history, and scholarly publishing,
today."
ARTstor's Executive Director, James Shulman,added: "By taking such a bold step in supporting publications based on art-historical research, the Metropolitan is providing enormous leadership to the entire sector. Scholars – in higher education and in museums – have been struggling with the question of how digitization might help to enable, rather than hinder, scholarly communications. For all involved, it is obvious that, when faced with an important directional challenge, the Metropolitan is providing decisive leadership."
Initially approached by the Metropolitan Museum in 2005 to develop this initiative, ARTstor has worked in close consultation with Metropolitan Museum
staff to create its new service, entitled "Images for Academic
Publishing" (IAP), which will make images available via software on the
ARTstor Web site ( www.artstor.org). Initially, nearly 1,700 images
representative of the broad range of the Metropolitan Museum's
encyclopedic collection will be available through the more than 730
institutions that currently license ARTstor. Efforts to expand this
accessibility are now underway and will be announced by ARTstor at a later
date. For more information about ARTstor's plans for its "Images for
Academic Publishing" service, please send email to IAP@artstor.org
ARTstor,a digital image library, was created in 2001 as a non-profit initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is now an independent non-profit organization
dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the arts and humanities. The
more than 730 non-profit institutions currently participating in ARTstor are
located in North America, Australia,
and the United Kingdom.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – founded in 1870 with a mission to collect,
preserve, and display works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture from
every part of the globe, and to educate the public about art – is the
most comprehensive art museum in the Western Hemisphere with a collection now
including more than two million works of art.
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