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One of our faculty members is circulating the following NYTimes article (April 5th) to Deans, senior managers, and others at my institution. Can you help me put this in context? How does ArtSTOR (see below) relate to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium), to the AIC (Art Image Cooperative), and to other similar projects? Jill Patrick Ontario College of Art & Design > Departing Harvard Leader to Organize Digital Art > > By KAREN W. ARENSON > > When Neil L. Rudenstine steps down as president of Harvard University > in June, he will lead a new project to create a giant digital > collection of images of art, architecture and other objects, > ranging from cave paintings in the Gobi desert to design items in > the Museum of Modern Art, the university will announce today. > > Mr. Rudenstine said the aim was to create a kind of "public > utility" for art that would present high quality images, catalog > them and link them to scholarly information. > > While individual historians and museums have begun to put art on- > line, and to create digital collections, Mr. Rudenstine added, > there has been little effort to create a coherent approach or make > a unified body of work available. > > An early phase of the project will be the creation of a collection > of perhaps 250,000 images that would be useful in university art > history classes. > > Other parts of the plan include digitizing more remote artwork and > creating standards for cataloging such work. > > The digital art project, initiated and financed by the Andrew W. > Mellon Foundation in New York City, will return Mr. Rudenstine to > the foundation where he worked for three years before going to > Harvard in 1991 and to his long association with William G. Bowen, > Mellon's president, who devised the project. > > Although Mr. Rudenstine is a Renaissance literature expert, he > says he is also passionate about art. Mr. Rudenstine, 66, said he > would spend about half his time on the Mellon archive. He will > devote the rest to projects in higher education, art, culture and > perhaps libraries. > > His successor at Harvard is Lawrence H. Summers, the former > treasury secretary. Mr. Rudenstine said one large challenge would > be to decide which areas to tackle would be most useful to > scholars. He said he would work with an advisory board of art > experts to make those decisions. James L. Shulman, a Mellon > official, will be executive director. > > Universities, museums and other users will be asked to subscribe > to the service, but the price structure and the date of > availability are still to be determined. > > Although digital art is a crowded field, Mr. Bowen said, most > online collections are of the "100 greatest hits variety" and do > not provide the breadth, depth or quality art historians and other > researchers require. > > Mellon officials said their goal was to ultimately make the > project temporarily known as ArtSTOR a self- supporting, nonprofit > entity. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/technology/05MELL.html?ex=987532983&ei > =1&en=4f3f4d5250cf77b2 > __________________________________________________________________ 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]