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Dear colleagues,
As some of you will be aware, the ARTstor web site (www.artstor.org) provides fairly detailed information about ARTstor, with a focus on mission and goals, key policy matters, our approach to collection building, testing and rollout plans, etc. The site also includes a Frequently Asked Questions section (www.artstor.org/about/faq.jsp) that (we hope!) provides answers to many of the questions ARTstor staff are asked most often. We are of course quite aware that it may not answer all the good questions you might have about ARTstor, but we will post answers to further questions when we have them! We hope you will let us know when our answers fail to address your concerns adequately.
As a case in point, we have heard recently that our site fails to adequately address a possible misconception about participation in ARTstor. It seems that some colleagues at various institutions have the mistaken impression that it will be necessary--or at least singularly advantageous--to purchase third party image management software to make the most of ARTstor. That is not the case. We take very seriously the statement in our FAQ that expresses ARTstor's commitment to making its collections available without requiring subscribers to purchase third party software. To this end, the ARTstor digital library will be accompanied by a user-friendly, browser-based toolset that ARTstor developed internally over the past year. This basic toolset, an early version of which is being tested and assessed at our 14 test sites now, will be provided as an integral part of ARTstor, and we are committed to the ongoing development of this native ARTstor software.
In the course of building ARTstor, we have explored a range of software options for delivering and using ARTstor content, and we have worked very closely with the developers of the Insight software (Luna Imaging, Inc.), the MDID software (developed by our test partners at James Madison University), and others to explore these options in the context of users' needs. We are still actively considering whether to make ARTstor available in other widely used software environments alongside our own. And we are also exploring strategies for "interoperating" with widely used software packages, including not only image management software but also learning management software, reference compiling programs, library management systems, etc. Those are complex questions we are presently studying along with our test partners. But, again, it will not be necessary to employ a third party software in order to take fullest advantage of ARTstor.
We hope this clarification is helpful, and regret any ambiguity or confusion we might ourselves have occasioned as we have explored various options for making ARTstor as valuable to users as possible.
On behalf of ARTstor's User Services team,
Max Marmor
ARTstor
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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