ARTstor Elements

Lisa Harms & Dan LipcanThomas J. Watson LibraryThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtJune 16, July 20, and August 12, 2010

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 teaching 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

• Search by Keyword(s) – e.g., watteau “judgement of paris”

• See Help and “Read Search Tips”• Use Collection keywords

- found under the Help Screen

– e.g., metmuseum; “scala archives”; dunhuang mellon or mida; bodleian oxford

• 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

For Better Searching, Understand the Collections

• 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

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)

Inserting images into Powerpoint

• *For individual images

• Download 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

Image Groups

• Use the “Organize” and “Share” tabs

• Creating Image Groups

• Working with Image Groups

• Printing, saving, and downloading

Donatello or Desiderio da Settignano, Saint John the Baptist. Marble, ca. 1458-60. Museo

nazionale del Bargello.

Image Groups: printout

Batch export to Powerpoint

Batch export to Powerpoint

Thank you!

Survey coming via email -- we look forward to your feedback.

Lisa Harms lisa.harms@metmuseum.org, x2344

Dan Lipcandan.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.