ARTstor has put up some terrific short video tutorials on YouTube to help with individual tasks. The video topics include An Overview of the new ARTstor site, How to Register, How to Make an Image Group, and How to Download Images to PowerPoint. They’re great for learning something new or just for a refresher. The…
This has been a good month for architecture in our collections! First the Archivision material that is now in MDID, and now a payload from UC Berkeley. The Visual Resources Center at UCB’s College of Environmental Design has made an enormous contribution to our UC Shared Images collection available in ARTstor. More than 20,000 images…
In the most recent ARTstor newsletter (PDF file) the letter from the Chairman and President that begins on page one describes a case study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our own John Senseney is mentioned in the illustration of the value of image sharing using ARTstor and SAHARA (its related program with the…
ARTstor’s Digital Library has added more than 4,600 additional images from the Larry Qualls Archive of contemporary art. This most recent release includes images from New York City gallery exhibitions during Summer & Fall 2002 and Winter & Spring 2003. The most current release brings the number of available Qualls Archive images to more than…
Here is the latest list of interesting collection additions in the works at ARTstor: School of Architecture at UT-Austin: Completed release of more than 5,700 images from the Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (search terms: box wagner) Yale University Art Gallery: Approximately 18,000 images related to the ancient…
Last week we got a demonstration of The Wall at the CalIT2 center at UC San Diego by Professor Lev Manovich and post-doctoral student Jeremy Douglass. As stated on their website, they believe that “a systematic use of large-scale computational analysis and interactive visualization of cultural data sets and data streams will become a major…