Jill Patrick asks about the Mellon Foundation's new ArtSTOR initiative,
most fully described in a press release on the Mellon web site at
http://www.mellon.org/artstor%20announcement.html , and the subject of
brief notices in the NY Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education last
week. The only thing I'd add to the press release is that the Mellon
Foundation's thinking about ArtSTOR has been helpfully informed by the work
of the Digital Library Federation's Academic Image Cooperative. The
collections and indeed the collection strategy DLF has been pursuing will
to a significant extent inform the early development of the ArtSTOR
project, which will focus on the creation of teaching collections
supporting widespread art history curricula. ArtSTOR is not related to
AMICO or other imaging initiatives, though it will surely complement them
fruitfully.
Max Marmor
Yale University
(DLF fellow 2000-2001)
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