online databases, rights and reproductions and open access - john ffrench

Online Databases, Rights and Reproductions and Open Access

John ffrenchDirector of Visual ResourcesYale University Art Gallery

Tufts University – Curatorial Approaches to Collections Professor Julia Courtney

Monday November 23rd, 2015

Yale University Art Gallery


Collaboration


20102008 2012

Artesia DAM

purchased

Customization/ implementation, MediaTools

Production

System Live

YUAG Online Collection Released

2011

Yale Open Accees

Announced

(May 2011)

2009

YUAG stops

charging for

images


"...discussion of current challenges for scholarship in art historical and

related disciplines, in particular as these are related to the fees charged by museums when licensing images."

Mellon Foundation meeting in NYC to discuss the topic of Images in Scholarly Publication.

14 museums meeting including the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Yale Center for British Art.


“The museum community now has two decades of the experience of ‘being digital’ to look back on, and it is fairly clear that digital networks and online access to collections has not substantially changed image-licensing revenue – as was anticipated by many in the early 1990s. What has happened, but has received much less attention, is that the potential for fulfilling mission in research, education and general creativity has greatly increased because of those same developments – digital networks and online access. In the end, all of the directors of Yale collections came down on the side of research, education and creativity. The greater risk was thought not to be loss of future revenue, but diminution of mission capacity by continuing to place obstacles like small images at low resolution, with forms to fill and fees to pay where they might very easily be removed.”

Ken Hamma – (Modern Art Notes Blog, 9/15/2011)


University Mission

Leadership for Cultural Heritage Institutions

Financial Considerations

Legal / Unenforceable Restrictions

Four Primary Drivers:


20102009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Artesia DAM

purchased

Customization/ implementation, MediaTools

Production

System Live

Content Delivery and

Digital Preservation

(Level 1) Services Live

YUAG Online Collection Released

-Yale policy

on open access to

digital representations of works in the public

domain announced

Artesia 6.8 upgrade toMediaMana

ger

>100,000YUAG

assets in DAM

Over 50% of YUAG art

collections digitally imaged


Art Resource: Began relationship in 2007Scala: Began relationship in 2008DNP: Began relationship in January 2008

ARTstor (Shared Shelf & Images for Academic Publishing) and more recently DPLA


Deed of Gift

Non Exclusive Agreement

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Thomas Raich – Director of [email protected]

Tim Speevack - Data Systems [email protected]


John ffrenchDirector of Visual ResourcesYale University Art Gallery

Tufts University – Curatorial Approaches to Collections Professor Julia Courtney

Monday November 23rd, 2015

With Thanks to Melissa Fournier of the Yale Center for British Art for her slides on Yale’s campus (slide 3)and for the Yale timeline idea. (slides 5 and 11)

online databases, rights and reproductions and open access - john ffrench

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