[Insightl] Fwd: ARTstor and "interoperability" issues

[Elisa Lanzi]

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/>