Shared ShelfMedia Management Softwarethat Facilitates Access to Your Collections

December 2012

Colleen Hunter

ARTstor Library Relations

Lead PartnersWorking with such experienced partners will help to build a system to unlock multimedia from archives all around the campus as well as from scholars' own collections.

– James Shulman, President

Shared Shelf Development Partners

Partners

Shared Shelf makes it practical for institutions to combine multimedia

created by individuals, those held by the institution, and those in ARTstor

Digital Library without the need for local onsite infrastructure.

Your Content and Shared Shelf InfrastructureShared Shelf Commons

API

Mixing local & ARTstor content

Cataloging environment

Shared vocabularies

CloudComputing Institutional

repository (API)

Web exhibitions

Google Images

Asset management

Public on the World Wide Web

1,400+ institutions subscribing to ARTstor worldwide

Your institution & designated others

Your institution

Shared Shelf Commons& Omeka sites

Contributed collection

Shared hosted collections

Hosted collection

Control How Broadly You Share Your Content

Shared Access Open AccessRestricted Access

Shared Shelf Commons: Share Your Local Content on the World Wide Web

• Shared Shelf Commons is a free open-access library of images.

• Search and browse collections with tools to zoom, print, export, and share images via URLs.

Increased efficiencies in cataloging work:• Customizable metadata schemas and cataloging screens• Community built and shared vocabularies• Integrated Getty authorities (AAT, TGN, ULAN)

Cost-effective Web-based software:• No local technical support required• No local software or hardware maintenance• Secure, online back up of source multimedia• Easy web-based access for unlimited users

Centralization of image and media resources:• Simultaneously search local content and 1.4 million images in

the ARTstor Digital Library • Feature-rich ARTstor Workspace tools geared toward teaching

with media• Consolidation of multiple media systems for easier support• Opportunities for collaboration between departments and

institutions

Why are so many institutions interested in Shared Shelf?

Types of collections• Departmental teaching

collections• Library special collections• Faculty collections• Campus museum collections

Subject Areas• Visual Arts• Performing Arts• Humanities• Social Sciences• Natural Sciences• Campus events, buildings,

staff, institutional history

Manage Diverse Collections

*Shared Shelf supports non-art metadata models including DARWIN Core & AVM (Astronomy Visualization Metadata Standard).

• New fees offer greater value and predictability, making budgeting easier

• Multimedia support of 20+ file types

• Digital preservation support

• Publish content to the Web via your institution's Omeka site

• …Work record support• …Advanced Administrative Tools• …Enhanced import/export – Excel, XML, OAI• …Enhanced publishing options, project requirements and restrictions

What’s New & What’s Next?Shared Shelf Updates & Developments

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Visit us online:

www.sharedshelf.org

Contact me directly:

Colleen.Hunter@ARTstor.org (212) 500-2439