Selected Image Digitization Projects in the US

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Selected Image Digitization Projects in the US

• Andrew Gessner
• Chief Librarian
• The Image Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York City, USA
• andrew.gessner_at_metmuseum.org

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Selected Image Digitization Projects in the US

• Andrew Gessner
• Chief Librarian
• The Image Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York City, USA
• andrew.gessner_at_metmuseum.org

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Selected Image Digitization Projects in New York
State

• Andrew Gessner
• Chief Librarian
• The Image Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York City, USA
• andrew.gessner_at_metmuseum.org

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Selected Image Digitization Projects in New York
State

• Andrew Gessner
• Chief Librarian
• The Image Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York City, USA
• andrew.gessner_at_metmuseum.org

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Selected Image Digitization Projects in New York
City

• Andrew Gessner
• Chief Librarian
• The Image Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York City, USA
• andrew.gessner_at_metmuseum.org

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Selected Image Digitization Projects in New York
City

• Andrew Gessner
• Chief Librarian
• The Image Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York City, USA
• andrew.gessner_at_metmuseum.org

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Selected Image Digitization Projects on the Upper
East Side
and Washington, DC!

• Andrew Gessner
• Chief Librarian
• The Image Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York City, USA
• andrew.gessner_at_metmuseum.org

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• MMA Permanent Collection
• MMA Special Collections
• MMA/ARTstor Images for Academic Publishing
• Kress Collection
• Smithsonian Institution Galaxy of Images

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MMA Permanent Collection

• Digitization of existing analog collection
• Department-specific projects
• Reinstallation projects
• Publication projects

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• Digitization of Existing Analog Collection
• Systematic scanning of large format
  transparencies
• capital project
• c.25,000 total
• Scanning on-demand for licensing requests
• operating budget
• c. 5,000 per year

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• Department-specific projects
• European Paintings
• donor funding
• c. 2,300 images
• Prints Drawings copystand project
• operating budget
• c. 50,000 per year

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• Reinstallation projects
• Wrightsman Galleries
• Greek and Roman Galleries
• American Wing

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• Wrightsman Galleries
• The Wrightsman Galleries are a series of period
  rooms that were renovated, reinstalled, and
  re-photographed in 2007-08. This effort was
  supported by donor funds.

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• Greek and Roman Galleries
• The Greek and Roman Galleries campaign was a
  major reconstruction of departmental galleries,
  including new photography, that was supported by
  a combination of donor, capital, and government
  funds.

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• American Wing
• The American Wing is currently undergoing a major
  reconstruction, providing an opportunity to
  digitally photograph many of the objects removed
  from display, and funded by donor, capital, and
  government funds.

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• Publication projects
• Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  is a two-volume set documenting all of MMAs 229
  Dutch paintings, funded by the Editorial
  Department.

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• MMA Special Collections
• Keighley Collection
• MMA History Collection

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• Keighley Collection
• This initiative, currently funded out of donor
  and operating funds, is assessing and digitizing
  selected images from the Keighley Collection,
  comprising 75,000 35mm color slides of mostly
  European art and architecture.

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• MMA History Collection
• This project is in the planning stages, and is
  intended to digitize several thousand historical
  views of the Met, its galleries, events,
  installations, and people, supported by the
  operating budget with possible additional support
  from donor funds.

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MMA/ARTstor Images for Academic Publishing

• MMA and ARTstor developed program to create and
  distribute without fee hi-res images for eligible
  academic publications
• Currently 6,000 images included in program
• Funded by MMA operating budget and capital
  project funds and ARTstor operating funds

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Kress Collection

• Kress Foundation, with additional support from
  ARTstor/Mellon, is funding a digital version of
  the entire Kress Collection
• Kress Collection is approximately 3,100 objects
  dispersed to over 40 US museums
• Virtual Kress Collection to be available via
  ARTstor, with thumbnails on the Kress site

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Smithsonian Galaxy of Images

• Smithsonian Institution has made selected images
  from all 20 SI libraries available online
• Currently 10,000 images published, with more
  added regularly
• Supported by government funding and private
  donations

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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• http//www.metmuseum.org/
• ARTstor
• http//library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html1
  
• Kress Collection
• http//www.kressfoundation.org/wcoll.html
• Smithsonian Institution Galaxy of Images
  http//www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/