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.

ARTstor

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

email

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 renee.watson@metmuseum.org, x2667

Dan Lipcandaniel.lipcan@metmuseum.org, x2982

http://libmma.org/portal/instruction/

Gravel sorting in search of diamonds [South Africa], photograph, undated. The Image Gallery, University of California, San Diego.