{"id":7462,"date":"2013-03-28T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=7462"},"modified":"2013-03-28T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:27:20","slug":"artstor-to-help-launch-the-digital-public-library-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2013\/03\/28\/artstor-to-help-launch-the-digital-public-library-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTstor to help launch the Digital Public Library of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 28, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n

New York, NY \/\u00a0 Cambridge, MA<\/strong> <\/span>— <\/strong>ARTstor is partnering with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to provide access to more than 10,000 high-quality images from six leading museums.<\/p>\n

As part of its collaboration with ARTstor<\/a>, the DPLA will aggregate and make available data records and links to images from six major American museums: the Dallas Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art (paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection), the Walters Art Museum, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. In addition to linking to the original contributing museum\u2019s own website, each DPLA record will link to the image in Open ARTstor, a new ARTstor initiative that allows users to view and download large versions of public domain images.<\/p>\n

The DPLA is a large-scale, collaborative project across government, research institutions, museums, libraries, and archives to build a digital library platform to make America\u2019s cultural and scientific history free and publicly available anytime, anywhere, online through a single access point. As part of its two-year Digital Hubs Pilot Project, the DPLA is working with several large digital content providers\u2014including the National Archives and the Smithsonian Institution\u2014and seven state and regional digital libraries to make digitized content from their online catalogs easily accessible to all. The DPLA will celebrate the groundbreaking work of hundreds of librarians, innovators, and other dedicated volunteers in its collective effort to build the first national digital library platform on April 18 at the Boston Public Library.<\/p>\n

\"Yupik<\/p>\n

Yupik Eskimo | Mask: The Bad Spirit of the Mountain | late 19th century | Dallas Museum of Art<\/em><\/p>\n

ARTstor\u2019s Digital Library (which currently includes over 1.5 million images aggregated from over 250 museums, artists, libraries, and archives around the world) is licensed to more than 1,500 subscribing institutions worldwide for exclusively non-commercial educational uses. Open ARTstor, launching in phases over the course of 2013 and beginning with the DPLA collaboration, will make thousands of public domain images from the collections in the Digital Library freely accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/p>\n

Thomas Eakins | Taking the Count | 1898 | Image \u00a9 Yale University Art Gallery<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are enormously grateful for this partnership with ARTstor and its partner museums,\u201d remarked Dan Cohen, DPLA Executive Director. \u201cOur vision for the Digital Public Library of America has always been one of open access to the full range of human expression, including visual culture, and ARTstor\u2019s contribution adds vital works of art to our growing, networked collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DPLA is quickly realizing a vision of raising discovery of our shared cultural heritage to a whole new level,\u201d said\u00a0ARTstor President James Shulman. \u201cWe look forward to our collaboration serving everyone from the boxer who is fascinated with Eakins\u2019s \u2018Taking the Count\u2019 (Yale) to someone studying a mask of The Bad Spirit of the Mountain<\/em>\u00a0made by the Yup\u2019ik Eskimo people (Dallas Museum of Art) via open educational resources such as smARThistory\/Khan Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Digital Public Library of America<\/strong> is taking the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all. This impact-oriented research effort unites the leaders from all types of libraries, museums, and archives with educators, industry, and government to define the vision for a digital library in service of the American public.\u00a0 More information is online at http:\/\/dp.la<\/a>. To find out more about the DPLA launch, April 18-19 in Boston, visit http:\/\/dp.la\/get-involved\/events\/launch\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ARTstor<\/strong> is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and associated fields through digital technologies. In addition to the ARTstor Digital Library of more than 1.5 million images, ARTstor also makes available Shared Shelf, a Web-based media management software service that allows institutions to catalog, edit, store, and share local collections. For more information, visit http:\/\/artstor.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For press information about the Digital Public Library of America, contact Kenny Whitebloom, Project Coordinator, at 617-384-9107.<\/p>\n

For press information about ARTstor and Open ARTstor, contact Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, Communications Manager, at 212-500-2404.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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