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ARTstor

Alert:

Available for your evaluation throughout 2008. Your feedback is welcome. There are three levels of access in ARTstor depending on your permissions:

1. As an unregistered user you can search, browse, view images, and access image data.
2. QUT staff & students: in order to save images into groups, and use other higher-level features, you will need to register an email address with which your groups can be associated.
3. Additional advanced functions are available to QUT Academic staff and other authorised users on request. These Instructor Privileges allow you to create Shared Folders, add shared Instructor Commentary to images, etc.

Access:

Current QUT staff and students: available on and off campus (QUT username and password required). Public: available in the library only.

Simultaneous User Limit:

Unlmited.

Subject Guide:

Description:

ArtStor is a large and expanding database of digital images from many periods in art history. Comprising nine specialised image collections plus one large general collection, its content represents a broad overview of world art, architecture, and visual culture, documenting artistic traditions across all times and cultures.

ArtStor includes images for architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, fashion and design as well as many other forms of visual and material culture and facilitates manipulation and re-packaging of those images into teaching and learning resources.

The initial collections are built from 4"x5" colour transparencies, 35mm colour slides, black and white photographic prints, and direct digital photography of objects in museums and in the field. ArtStor uses professional vendors to digitize the analogue materials at a high resolution.

Documentation & Help:

• ARTstor Permitted and prohibited uses
• Getting started
• Frequently Asked Questions
• System Requirements
• Presentation tool (OIV) - the Offline Image Viewer is a tool allowingyou to create digital slide show presentations.