[Insightl] Fwd: ARTstor and "interoperability" issues

[Laine Farley]

Elisa and others,
The California Digital Library is preparing a list of questions based on 
the DLF presentation on interoperability cited below.  I can share this 
after it has been discussed internally a bit more.

Eric's observations are concerns we also share, but we are hoping to push 
back on the issue of   whether some content owners might be willing to open 
up their content a bit more.

Stay tuned.

Laine

At 08:51 AM 11/16/2004 -0500, Elisa Lanzi wrote:
>Dear Insight users,
>I am forwarding an e-mail from the VRA listserve. Last week James
>Shulman sent a long explanation of ARTstor's stand on interoperability.
>The enclosed e-mail from Eric Behrens is in response to that message.
>
>Please see Bill Ying's slides from the Digital Library Federation
>meeting a few weeks ago:
>
><http://www.diglib.org/forums/fall2004/ying1004_files/frame.htm>
>
>It seems pretty clear that this is the way that ARTstor is going to
>deal with the issue. I have two questions:
>- are there ongoing conversations between ARTstor and Luna?
>- if this is a fait accompli, what are the strategies for Insight
>users? Those institutions that subscribe to ARTstor need to find a way
>for faculty to teach with ARTstor images and the growing Insight content
>(local and shared).
>
>Comments, suggestions?
>Thanks,
>Elisa
>
>
>Elisa Lanzi
>Director, Imaging Center
>Smith College Art Dept.Imaging Center
>Hillyer Hall
>Northampton, MA 01063
>Past-President, Visual Resources Association
>VOICE: 413.585.3106
>FAX: 413.585.3119
>elanzi at email.smith.edu
>
>http://www.vraweb.org
>
> >>> behrens at SWARTHMORE.EDU 11/15/2004 5:06:17 PM >>>
>Given Max Marmor's forwarded message from James Schulman a little
>over a week ago, I was surprised last week to hear Schulman's
>presentation at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal
>Education (NITLE) conference. In it, he briefly flashed before us a
>slide show on ARTstor's interoperability plan, which clearly
>referenced far greater plans for interoperability than I'd heard
>before.
>
>It contained information that was totally new to me despite my
>sincerest efforts to stay on top of this issue. I figured I can't be
>the only one who would want to know this information, so if you're
>interested, plese check out Bill Ying's slides from the Digital
>Library Federation meeting a few weeks ago:
>
><http://www.diglib.org/forums/fall2004/ying1004_files/frame.htm>
>
>Maybe we can generate a list of questions that we can pose to James
>and Bill so that we can make sure the combination of the OAI
>harvesting(yellow), Import API (pink), and the MetaSearch and
>Retrieve API (orange) are likely to accomplish what we need.
>
>Mind you, there's the still the issue that all of these options will
>enhance your ability to import to ARTstor or search external
>collections from the ARTstor viewers. All of this will reinforce the
>primacy of the ARTstor viewer. Some of us, I expect, will be willing
>to concede this point where others won't. But given the contractual
>realities of the deals ARTstor has made with various rights holders,
>I think this is likely as good as it gets for the foreseeable future.
>
>Eric Behrens
>Assoc. Director for Academic Computing
>I.T.S., Swarthmore College
><http://thinkthunk.blogspot.com/>
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