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ARTstor Elements
Renée Watson & Dan LipcanThomas J. Watson LibraryThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtJuly 1, July 7, and August 13, 2008
Gravel sorting in search of diamonds [South Africa], photograph, undated. The Image Gallery, University of California, San Diego.
What is ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Essential Elements
• Access and Registration
• Basic and Advanced Searching
• Navigating Search Results
• Using the Image Viewer
• Creating and working with Image Groups
• Saving and printing images, image groups
Not Covered in This Class
• Discussion of ARTstor collections
• See ARTstor Research Collections
• Creating and managing Shared Folders
• Creating Personal Collections• Offline Image Viewer (OIV)
Guitar (chitarra battente) 18th century
Getting Started
• Accessing ARTstor
• Registering in ARTstor
• System requirements – High speed internet – Internet Explorer 7– Pop-ups allowed
Searching
• Can search by Keyword(s) – e.g., watteau “judgement of paris”
• Can use Collection keywords - e.g., metmuseum; “scala archives”; dunhuang mellon or mida; bodleian oxford
• See Help and “Read Search Tips”
• Can search within results
Advanced Search
• Can specify search term as being in Creator or Title or “in any field” (keyword)
• Can do boolean search (AND, OR,NOT)
• Can limit by: – Date range– Geography– Classification
Search Results
• Image Thumbnails• Image Data• Selecting Images• Sorting images• Large Thumbnails• Thumbnail Icons
Thumbnail Icons
• IAP (Images for Academic Publishing)
• Image clusters
• Find more like this
• QTVR
For Better Searching, Understand the Collections
• ARTstor’s Collection Topics
• ARTstor Research Collections - Guide
• Observe the Object Data terms within a collection:
• Observe the terms in your search results
ARTstor Elements, Part II
• Image Viewer
• Image Groups
• Printing
• Downloading
• Powerpoint
• Workshops
Federico Barocci. Saint Francis. Oil on canvas, ca. 1600-1605. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.281.
Image Viewer
• *Disable your pop-up blocker
• Zoom, pan, and rotate
• Thumbnail map
• Show/hide data
• Maximize/minimize window
Arthur Wesley Dow, Bend of a River. Color woodcut, ca. 1898. Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston.
Image Viewer
• Navigation within search results or an image group
• Print and save/download
• *Downloadable image sizes vary
• Side-by-side comparisons
Arthur Wesley Dow, Bend of a River. Color woodcut, ca. 1898. Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston.
Image Viewer: printout
Image Viewer: printout (detail)
Image Groups
• Use the “Organize” and “Share” tabs
• Creating Image Groups
• Working with Image Groups
• Printing and saving/downloading
Donatello or Desiderio da Settignano, Saint John the Baptist. Marble, ca. 1458-60. Museo
nazionale del Bargello.
Image Groups: printout
Downloading imagesvia Image Viewer (one at a time)
Original size
Downloading imagesvia Image Viewer (one at a time)
Pensive Bodhisattva. Gilt bronze, mid-7th century Korea. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.222.
Resized
Downloading imagesvia Image Viewer (one at a time) via Image Group download
Pensive Bodhisattva. Gilt bronze, mid-7th century Korea. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.222.
original size
Downloading imagesvia Image Viewer (one at a time) via Image Group download
Pensive Bodhisattva. Gilt bronze, mid-7th century Korea. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.222.
Resized
Downloading imagesvia Image Viewer (one at a time) via Image Group download
Pensive Bodhisattva. Gilt bronze, mid-7th century Korea. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.222.
Inserting images into Powerpoint
• Download your ARTstor images
• Open Powerpoint
• Insert > Picture > From file…
• Find file
• Resize and position
• See also ARTstor help: Downloading
Powerpoint slide, in which I will demonstrate how easy it is
Upcoming hands-on workshops
• Very limited space• Bring your work and your questions• To register, use the link in our survey
Tuesday, August 11, 2-3 pmThursday, August 20, 11 am-12 pmWednesday, September 9, 3-4 pm
Thank you!
Survey coming via email -- we look forward to your feedback.
Renée Watson [email protected], x2667
Dan [email protected], x2982
http://libmma.org/portal/instruction/
Gravel sorting in search of diamonds [South Africa], photograph, undated. The Image Gallery, University of California, San Diego.