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As an addenda to Max Marmor's 4/10 message on the relationship of the Digital Library Federation's Academic Image Cooperative to the Mellon ArtSTOR initiative, I offer the following comment, from the point of view of a research library and photoarchive involved in some of the planning for ArtSTOR: The Mellon Foundation's development of ArtSTOR was informed not only by the academic teaching community, but also by libraries and photoarchives whose focus is on the documentation of art. At the Mellon's initiative, a meeting of some of the world's largest and most significant photo-archives took place at the Getty Research Institute in February. Participants were: the Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute, the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, the National Gallery of Art (U.S.), the Getty Research Institute, and the Frick Art Reference Library. As a result of this meeting, the Foundation has gained additional insight into the role of photoarchives in art historical research. The depth and breadth of these historic image collections have particular value for use in teaching research methodology, training the eye in making attributions, detailing the affects of time, war, and conservation on works of art, and providing a wealth of textual information on provenance and patronage. The concept of ArtSTOR, while still under development, carries the tantalizing possibility of a virtual doorway to these and other important repositories of images of works of art. Pat Barnett Andrew W. Mellon Librarian The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library ____________________________________________________________________________ _____ Patricia Barnett, Andrew W. Mellon Librarian (Chief, Library, Archives, and Information Resources) [log in to unmask] The Frick Collection / Frick Art Reference Library 10 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10021 TEL (212) 547-0639 FAX (212) 879-2091 -----Original Message----- From: Max Marmor [mailto:[log in to unmask]] <mailto:[mailto:[log in to unmask]]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:51 AM To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: ArtSTOR 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 <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) __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]