ARTstor - Shared Shelf

Shared Shelf

ARTstor also provides Shared Shelf, a Web-based cataloging and image management software service that allows institutions to catalog, edit, store, and share local collections. Shared Shelf, which was launched in 2011, enables local collections to be seamlessly hosted alongside the collections and tools in the ARTstor Workspace. Shared Shelf provides a networked platform and tools that make it possible to easily integrate and update hosted institutional collections. Shared Shelf will also enable institutions to nominate their collections to be included in the ARTstor Digital Library. ARTstor has worked closely with nine institutional partners to develop this service: Colby College, Cornell University, Harvard University, Middlebury College, New York University, Society of Architectural Historians, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Miami, and Yale University. Shared Shelf’s cataloging tools provide both simple and complex metadata entry screens that can be further customized for expert and non-expert cataloging. The tools include a vocabulary warehouse that provides integrated access to third-party controlled vocabularies Controlled vocabulary, such as the Getty’s Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, Art and Architecture Thesaurus, and others. All new candidate terms will be contributed to the Getty Vocabularies. Shared Shelf allows institutions to easily publish their digital assets and data to various outlets; images may be hosted in the ARTstor Workspace and restricted to a particular institution or group of institutions, or made publicly accessible in open-access websites, such as Shared Shelf Commons.Shared Shelf also remotely stores and backs up high-resolution source images.

Both ARTstor Digital Library and Shared Shelf were established to serve the nonprofit mission of using digital technologies to further education, scholarship, and research worldwide.