Questions (OCT 2010)
Hi all,
After a few conversations/email exchanges with ARTstor, this is what we have determined:
Contributing to ARTstor general collections:
- Do we have access to the back-end of collections we contribute to the ARTstor general collections (for updates/additions)? -- Looks like this must be done as batch updates through ARTstor, much like we are doing things with KVRC right now. In short, we have no direct access to the back-end of these collections- need to see what future plans for this look like.
- Can these ultimately be made open through Openshelf?
Open Shelf policies are not yet determined, but intention is that contributors could indeed opt to have their collections available in Open Shelf if they are already in the ARTstor Digital Library, currently planning for the rights clearance issues to be up to the institutions, or institutions could just put up the public domain/rights-cleared materials.
Shared shelf
- Can we upload to Artstor general, or Cornell repository only?
Cornell only for now-
- When is the release date for Openshelf? -
Simplified version available summer 2011- plans to work with Partners in subsequent months to determine workflow needs.
- Can we clean up existing data? Eliminate records? (3000 records without images)---can this be done by Artstor?
As far as cleaning up existing data in your hosted collection, best way of doing this would be once your collection is migrated to Shared Shelf you will be able to delete or suppress these records yourself. (If you deleted them they would be removed from Shared Shelf and your institutional collection; if you suppressed them they would remain in Shared Shelf but would not be visible in your institutional collection.)
All of this does beg the question of contributing collections to ARTstor general now, given that it's not yet determined what type of access we will have to maintain the content. Or we can continue as to contribute with the hope that we will ultimately get the access we need.
- Problems with existing kvrc , see images:
1. Record/Work: 13309
Image/File: 34659
File Name: CS0015007
2. Record/Work: 16394
Image/File: 34665
File Name: CS0015013
3. Record/Work: 16391
Image/File: 34661
File Name: CS0015009