ARTstor

ARTstor http://www.artstor.org is a database licensed by the library, that contains over 500,000 digital images that may be used in teaching and learning. ARTstor has two facets, content (images) and tools (programs.) It is comprised of dual programs, an strong online component where images may be searched and grouped; and an offline program called the ?Offline Image Viewer? that may be downloaded and makes ARTstor?s otherwise protected images portable. The OIV is available as a freeware product, so those unaffiliated with an ARTstor institution may still use the program. The backbone of the collection is made up of survey art historical images, however, the collection has grown substantially from there and the development team continues to research collections to add to the database.

ARTstor and Jstor now have a Sandbox http://artstor-sandbox.jstor.org/search/ where images may be pulled from both databases simultaneously. Images may appear in context to the article in which they were published.

MDID

MDID http://mdid.richmond.edu is the Madison Digital Image Database. Images local to the University of Richmond reside here, but this database will be downloaded to ARTstor within the next year. At this time, the MDID collection reflects the teaching of the Art and Art History Department, and numbers 20,000 images.

Google images

Google allows an image search from its general search page. Enter a search term and click on the "Images" tab above the search box. Results will be displayed in a visual layout. When culling images from the open web, be careful to examine images for:
1. Color correctness --make sure an image does not have a hue that is too red, blue or yellow.
2. Resolution --An image needs to be more than 150K to use in a presentation.
3. Copyright --that you are using this image for educational use only and the institution has no restrictions on use.

Free sites

For art images:

AICT: Art Images for College Teaching http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/

Historic Images of Art and Architecture http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=hiaaic
19th and 20th century depictions (drawings) of Classical architecture

Medieval Art and Architecture: http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menufrance/mainfran.html
Large database of images from the University of Pittsburgh, mostly French and English

Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga.hu/ Privately run database with large resolution images.

For historic and scientific images:

Library of Virginia http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/photo/index.htm Historical images of Virginia

New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/digital/ A number of very good databases, exploring everything from wildlife to performance

Library of Congress, American Memory Project: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Multiple databasesIncludes American history and anthropology

Yale University Library digital collections: http://www.library.yale.edu/libraries/digcoll.html Subjects include archival collections to medical imagery

Hubble site: http://hubblesite.org/ NASA's images from the Hubble telescope

Maps:

Rutgers University Visual Resources Departmen listing of Map sites: http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/vrc/vrcLinks.php#maps

Interactive sites that allow contextual or 3-dimension viewing:

Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

Turning the Pages from the British Museum http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation3.html Rare manuscripts including the Lindisfarne Gospels can be viewed page by page, in book context

Virtual Vaudeville: http://www.virtualvaudeville.com/index.htm Reconstructed Vaudeville actors and stages (historically correct) from the University of Georgia

-- DarylWeade - 15 Dec 2006