ARTstor Updates
June 30, 2008
Collections News
New additions to the QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture collection (Columbia University)
The ARTstor Digital Library now includes 300 additional Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas from the Visual Media Center, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University. QTVR enables faculty and students to complement traditional side-by-side image comparisons with a mode of representation based on space and context. This addition brings the total number of QTVR files available through ARTstor to over 1,200.
Learn more http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-080522-qtvr.shtml
1,700 more images added to Images for Academic Publishing
ARTstor and The Metropolitan Museum of Art have added over 1,700 images to Images for Academic Publishing (IAP). IAP allows scholars to download and use, free of charge, high-resolution digital images for academic publications.
Learn more http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-080522-iap.shtml
Images of archaeological sites from the Mellink Archive (Bryn Mawr College)
The Mellink Archive from Bryn Mawr College is now available through ARTstor. The collection includes almost 4,000 images of archaeological sites in Turkey. Also well-represented are sites in Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Iran, and Iraq, dating from prehistoric through medieval periods.
Learn more http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-080522-mellink.shtml
Additional images of contemporary art from the Larry Qualls Archive
ARTstor has released an additional 4,200 images from the Larry Qualls Archive, bringing the total number available to ARTstor users to approximately 29,500. Images from the Larry Qualls Archive document contemporary art exhibitions at galleries and other exhibition spaces throughout New York City and elsewhere.
Learn more http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-080522-qualls.shtml
New additions to the Islamic Art and Architecture collection
Approximately 4,000 additional images were added to the Islamic Art and Architecture collection in the Digital Library. This latest release focuses on textiles and manuscripts from Turkey and brings the total number of images in this collection to over 18,700.
Learn more http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-080522-islamic.shtml
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