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Images for Academic Publishing (IAP)
Initiated by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007, IAP provides free print-quality images for use in scholarly publications. IAP is available as an optional service to Artstor Digital Library contributors. Scholars at institutions that subscribe to Artstor can access these images through the Digital Library. Simply add IAP to your search criteria; the eligible results will feature the IAP icon beneath the thumbnail image. Other scholars may request free access to IAP by emailing iap@artstor.org.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
The DPLA is a large-scale, collaborative project across government, research institutions, museums, libraries, and archives to build a digital library platform to make America’s cultural and scientific history free and publicly available online. Artstor partnered as a content hub for DPLA and has provided access to more than 26,000 high-quality images and data records from leading museums and universities.
The Built Works Registry Project (BWR)
Funded by a three-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the BWR aims to create a freely available registry and data resource for architectural works and the built environment. The project is bringing together records from an array of sources including universities, libraries, and national cultural repositories to identify all built works with a name, location, and unique identifier number. BWR will provide links to other institutions which provide and publish their own authorities and will also serve as one of the core contributors to Getty Research Institute’s Cultural Objects Naming Authority (CONA).
For more information, visit the Built Works Registry Blog.
FLEXspace
The Flexible Learning Environments eXchange is an open access repository initiative that uses Shared Shelf to manage descriptive information and apply detailed attributes of learning spaces from institutions around the world.
The project started in partnership with the State University of New York (SUNY), Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC), Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), Educause Learning Initiative (ELI), and Artstor.
Visit FLEXspace to learn more about the peer-review ranking system and how to participate.
ArchaeoCore
ArchaeoCore is an alternative metadata model for archaeology that foregrounds the site, maintaining the connection of the site to the object throughout its lifecycle. By preserving the context of archaeological finds, archaeologists and other researchers are able to gain access to critical information about the history of the objects and to re-aggregate dispersed materials in legacy collections. The first goal of the ArchaeoCore project is to establish a working model that is flexible enough to accommodate all types of archaeological metadata and to make it accessible to the public. As a result, ArchaeoCore is an attempt to develop a discipline-specific metadata framework that preserves site and project information, but is both flexible and practical enough to be used by excavation, library, archive, and museum professionals.
Visit the NYU IFA ArchaeoCore page to learn more and to download the schema.
