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VRC HOME • VRC NEWS • VRC IMAGING SERVICES • IMAGE ORDERS & DONATIONS _____________________________________________ VRC Digital Image Collection Please note that some of the following sections contain information about online image resources administered outside the University of Colorado. It is important to understand the laws governing copyright and exemptions to the exclusive rights of copyright holders. Images posted on the Internet are protected by copyright laws--it is imperative to read the terms of use for any Web site before downloading images, even for educational purposes. OVERVIEW The image collection is housed in Luna Insight software. There are currently two modes of access to the collection: the Insight Java Client and the Insight Browser Client. Art and Art History faculty and students may obtain the Java client on disc in the VRC. It provides more functionality, including cross-collection searching and image exports, than the Browser version, which is accessible through University of Colorado Digital Library (CU-DL). Those wishing to access the Browser version on the CU-DL from off campus need a VPN connection (software that makes you appear to be accessing the collection from campus -- available for free to CU-Boulder users at the CU-Boulder ITS Web site). More information about using the Luna Insight software can be found through the CU Digital Library’s Help section. The VRC can also provide training and support in its use. The Art and Art History VRC is a founding member of the University of Colorado's Digital Image Collaborative, an image buying and sharing consortium. The other members are the Auraria VRC (Denver campus) and the College of Architecture and Planning VRC (Boulder and Denver campuses). Each unit purchases and creates digital images to meet its immediate curricular needs, then shares these images via Luna Insight across the University of Colorado. The VRC Digital Image Collection, other CU collections, and publicly shared collections from institutions around the world that use Luna Insight are available through the CU-DL See section below for more information about the CU-DL. COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY _____________________________________________ University of Colorado Digital Library (CU-DL) Faculty members from the CU-Boulder campus may wish to use the Java client rather than the browser version currently available on the CU-DL web site. The Java client is available on disc in the VRC (see the VRC Digital Image Collection section above for details). For copyright reasons, those wishing to access the VRC's image collection in the CU-DL from off campus need a VPN connection (software that makes you appear to be accessing the collection from campus -- available for free to CU-Boulder users at the CU-Boulder ITS Web site). _____________________________________________ ARTstor
ARTstor has excellent help documentation available on their Web site. The most important things to know first about ARTstor:
_____________________________________________ Directories, Guides, and Search Engines * Art History Resources on the Web: Created by Professor Christopher Witcombe, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia. * Artcyclopedia: Provides references to sites on the World Wide Web where artists' works can be viewed online. Has indexed over 2,300 art sites, and offers over 95,000 links to an estimated 180,000 artworks by 8,200 renowned artists. * Digital Images Collections Wiki: From Wellesley College. An extremely useful resource of Free- and Fair-Use digital image collections that are available for anyone to use for personal and educational purposes. * Digital Image Resources: From the Visual Resources Library of Emory University's Art History Department, divided into useful subject areas. * Finding Images Online: From JISC Digital Media (formerly known as TASI), which exists to help the UK’s FE and HE communities embrace and maximize the use of digital media. * Flickr: Online photo management and sharing application. Users upload and tag (label) photos, which they may choose to share publicly and allow others to tag for better search results. When opened, images available for downloading feature an ALL SIZES button that will reveal download options. Flickr Commons is a collection of publicly-held photography collections, launched in January of 2008. Also, many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search for content available under each type of license. * Google Advanced Image Search: Google's image search engine provides links to countless images on the Web, many of which are low quality with frequently extraneous search results. To narrow search results with higher quality images, use the Advanced Image Search and specify an image size of at least medium. Google has introduced Google Image Labeler, a new social tagging feature that invites users to label images for improved search results. * Image Collections and Online Art: A section of Andrew Midkiff's comprehensive web site, The Mother of All Art History Link Pages. * Library of Congress Global Gateway: A gateway to rich primary source materials relating to history and culture. The site offers more than 80,000 digital items. * Looking for Good Art: In-depth guide in three parts: 1) Web Resources and Image Databases; 2) Image Retrieval; 3) Glorious National Collections. * Museums: Directory of online museum collections around the world; another section of Andrew Midkiff's The Mother of All Art History Link Pages. * Museum Collections Available Online: The UCB Libraries Art & Architecture Collection's list. * Online Image Resources: Well organized directory from University of California, Santa Barbara's Department of the History of Art and Architecture. _____________________________________________ Selected Digital Collections, Libraries, and Related Content * Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive: The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the Associated Press' current year's photo reports and a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library. The Multimedia Archive also inlcudes AP graphics, text and audio. This resource provides access to over 700,000 photographs dating back to 1840 as well as audio and visual content from the AP archives (access is limited to the CU-Boulder community with a limit of one concurrent user). * Art Images for College Teaching (AICT): Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl. AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature. * ArtServe: Contains around 450,000 images. Created by Michael Greenhalgh, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Australian National University. Dedicated to visual material useful for teaching and learning Art History and adjacent areas. Artwork (but not publicly visitable architecture) from about the period of World War II onward is excluded for copyright reasons. * The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. * Beineke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Search 250,000 digitized images of photographs, textual documents, illuminated manuscripts, maps, works of art, and books from the Beinecke's collections. * Bildarchiv Foto Marburg: A national and international research and service institute, supported by the Philipps University in Marburg. Its mission is to collect, index and make available photographs related to European art and architecture, as well as to conduct research on the history, practice and theory of how visual cultural assets are passed on, especially the accompanying transformation process as it relates to the media, the conditions of storing knowledge in visual form, and the significance to society of remembering visual culture. With its roughly 1.7 million photographs,Foto Marburg is one of the largest image archives on European art and architecture. * British Library's Online Gallery: 30,000 items from the British Library's collection. * California Digital Library: The University of California System's consolidated digital collections. * Digital Imaging Project: Created by Mary Ann Sullivan at Bluffton University. The growing archive currently contains over 14,000 images. They are freely available for personal or educational purposes. * Joconde: A collective catalogue of the collections of French museums. Over 200,000 records are accompanied by images. * Lewis Walpole Library: The main focus of the Digital Collection is the Library's world-renowned collection of English caricatures and political satirical prints from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Included are works by Bunbury, Woodward, Gillray, Rowlandson, and Newton, among others. * Library of Congress: The American Memory Collections provide access to a diverse range of materials on American history and culture. The collections include images, video and audio recordings, and historical documents. The Library of Congress also collects materials on global culture and history, which are available through LC's Global Gateway. The American Memory and Global Gateway projects are excellent sources of information and multimedia content about American and international history and culture. The Library of Congress also provides a searchable database for accessing the holdings of its Prints and Photographs Division. Approximately one million digital images are available for searching and browsing. * LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google: Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.. * National Archives' Archival Research Catalog: The online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. * New York Public Library's Digital Gallery: Features over 480,000 digitized images of primary sources and other printed materials in their collection. The Gallery includes manuscripts, maps, vintage posters, historical photographs, and much more. * Online Archive of California (OAC): Provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 150 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses. * Oxford Art Online: Authoritative reference resource on the history of art; includes many illustrated articles (access is limited to the CU-Boulder community). * Photomuse: An alliance between George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and the International Center of Photography (ICP). The museums maintain Web sites supporting their respective programs and exhibits, George Eastman House and ICP collaborate in building Photomuse to provide online resources for the study of an important cultural subject: photography at work in the world. They invite all students and scholars -- be they academic or recreational -- to use this site and to assist them in making this a useful and authoritative learning tool. * Rhizome's ArtBase: An online archive of new media art containing some 2,483 art works, and growing. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends. * Ruavista: Seeks to organize the streets wealth and to share it with the greatest number of people worldwide and strives to promote a new form of urban tourism based upon visiting ordinary streets and paying attention to details rather than famous spots and beautiful architecture. Ruavista publishes contributed photos provided they address the theme of the street. * Stoa Image Gallery: The Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication exists primarily to serve classicists. Its image gallery contains user-created albums with many large, high quality images available for non-commercial purposes. * UNESCO World Heritage: The World Heritage List includes 890 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. The list is arranged alphabetically by country, and most sites' entries include a Gallery tab with images. * University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service: Diverse range of collections from the University of Michigan. While many collections are restricted, many others are available to the public. * University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections: Particularly strong in materials related to the Pacific Northwest and Native Americans. * VADS (Visual Arts Data Service): The online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 12 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK. * Web Gallery of Art: A personal gallery with a searchable database of European painting and sculpture from the 12th to mid-19th centuries. Contains over 18,000 images. While most images are surrogates scanned from printed sources, many are of acceptable quality for classroom projection. * World Digital Library: The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research. * WorldImages: Provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 60,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. _____________________________________________
Selected Online Museum Collections * The British Musem: Currently includes objects from Africa; the Americas; central, east, south and southeast Asia, including the Sir Percival David Collection of Chinese ceramics; ancient Egypt and Sudan; Europe; ancient Greece and Rome; the Middle East; Oceania; prehistory; the Museum’s collection of two-dimensional art. * Corcoran Gallery of Art: The collection's paintings and sculpture are the legacy of William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), the museum's founder and a leading patron of American art. The Corcoran continues to broaden its collection to include a wide selection of works by contemporary artists. Today, the Corcoran is renowned for its collection of 20th-century painting, sculpture and photography. In total, the Corcoran's American holdings illuminate the nation's history and artistic development from colonial times through the 20th century. * Denver Art Museum: Selections from the permanent collection. * The Frick Collection: The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture (among them one of the finest groups of small bronzes in the world), superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality. * Guggenheim Museum Collection Online: Searchable database of selected artworks from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection. The site currently contains over 700 artworks by nearly 300 artists from the Guggenheim’s overall permanent collection of over 7,000 artworks. These highlights are designed to reflect the breadth, diversity, and tenor of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s extensive holdings from the late 19th century through the present day. * Hermitage Museum Digital Collection: The site features a searchable database of high resolution images from 12 different categories of works of art (painting, sculpture, jewelry, etc.), HotMedia images of selected halls and artworks, QBIC Search (Query By Image Content), and a newly developed "Zoom View" Java-based technology created by the IBM Haifa Research Lab (located in Israel) especially for this project. It enables the viewer to zoom in on a specific part of an image for detailed analysis and to read descriptive material at the same time. * J. Paul Getty Museum: Learn more about many of the works of art on display at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa. * Kyoto National Museum Masterworks: This section is one of the highlights of the Kyoto National Museum homepage. Here you will find the best-known works owned by and in the custody of the Kyoto National Museum, in an easy-to-maneuver format. Most of the works introduced here have multiple enlargements arranged so that you can explore works in depth. * Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Collections Database is a searchable database of artworks and related materials from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An individual database record includes information about an object as well as images, when available. The Museum's curators have selected several works of note within the Collection Database as Highlights of the collection. The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History provides short introductions to periods, cultures, and geographical areas in the history of world art illustrated with works from the Met’s permanent collection. * Museum of Modern Art, New York: The online collection offers over 30,000 works by nearly 6,000 artists. * Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: Site offers a representative sample of MOCA's permanent collection. Some images may not be available. * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The online collection offers nearly 350,000 images. * National Gallery of Canada's Cybermuse: Links to the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection through the Internet offering a complementary experience, a new dimension in interpreting, understanding and enjoying Canada's visual arts heritage. Contains over 10,000 images of works of the Gallery's permanent collection. * National Gallery (London): The National Gallery houses the British national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries. * National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) Image Collections: The department of image collections is a study and research center for images of Western art and architecture at the National Gallery of Art. * Rijksmuseum: Portions of the collection available online. * San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Collection of modern and contemporary art includes more than 26,000 works and continues to grow. Strong holdings in photography, painting and sculpture, architecture and design, and media arts. * Smithsonian Institution: Featuring works from their 19 museums, which include the African Art Museum, the American History Museum, the American Indian Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Portrait Gallery. * Tate Collection: The national collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art. * Victoria and Albert Museum Collections: Search for over 56,000 works and over 86,000 images from the V&A's collections, including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles. * Walker Art Center: The Walker Art Center, a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences, examines the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals, cultures, and communities. _____________________________________________ Commercial Image Providers SCHOLARS RESOURCE CONTRIBUTORS: • Archivision
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