2011 ARLIS/VRA Vendor Slam

2011 ARLIS/VRA Vendor Slam

March 19, 2011

Scholars Resource is one of the premiere providers of images to

academia.

Why consider Scholars Resource?

• Scholars Resource is noted for its:– Content

– Convenience

– Cost Effectiveness

– Quality of Images

Davis Art Images

CONTENT

• Core Academic Content– Nearly 250,000 professionally photographed

images

– Partnered. Not Donated.

– Extremely high-quality images and metadata

– Exclusive to academia (teaching & research)

– Core curriculum

– Academic & Textbook Sets

• Professional Photographers– Professional photographers representing names

you know and admire:

• Bridgeman• Saskia• Davis• Archivision• Kiracofe• Ken Garrett

• Museums– Collections directly from Museums

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• MFA Boston

• Toledo Museum of Art

• … and one to be announced at end of this presentation

Toledo Museum of Art

CONVENIENCE• Benefits of Ownership

– Store in any format (e.g. VRA Core 4)– Access from any platform (e.g. Insight,

Artstor, MDID, etc)– Any size you need– Print-quality resolution– Infinitely Flexible

• No-cost Infrastructure– Images and data stored on SR website. Free.– Images and Metadata always current– Advanced Search Engine.– IP Authentication available– High-resolution Online Viewer– Available for download– No cost. No work!!

• Academic & Textbook Sets– Academic Sets– Textbook Sets

COST EFFECTIVE

• License in Perpetuity– Convenience and safety of ownership– Rent vs. Own– Scholars Resource is the only aggregator (academic) that gives you this

option.– In your hands – forever.

• Pay for only what you need– Renting entire library not required

You already have us!

• 2.3 Million images in schools around the world

• 300+ schools in U.S. alone

• Available online for download or via hi-resolution online viewer

Image Management / Hosting

• Hosting your own images in-house can be expensive!– Hardware $$$

• Server costs• Disk Storage (LOTS!!) costs• Facility costs• Backup and Redundancy costs

– Personnel $$$• Hardware, Network and Systems administration• Programmers• Web Developers• Database administrators• Management costs

– Ongoing Maintenance and Upgrade $$$

• Outsourcing is not only extremely cost effective, but leverages a provider’s economies of scale to provide safety and availability that would require tens of thousands of dollars per year to do yourself.

• No Brain Damage!!

What Hosting should provide

– Scalable Storage– Image Platform

• Search Engine• Download• Online viewing (is it high-resolution?)• Web-based

– VRA Core 4 based database (for art, architecture, and cultural images)

Three Questions you should ask:

• How easy is it to get my images into your system?

• Is your system cloud-based?• What does it cost?

Real-life example

• 3,000 students (classified as “Very Small”)• 40,000 images• Average size: 4MB for a total of about 1.25 GB

Hosting Calculator

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• Just because you are paying more doesn’t necessarily mean you are getting more

• And if you are, is it worth the extra cost?

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Announcing! Asian Art Museum of San Francisco !

• Among most comprehensive collections of Art from all across Asia, from Persia to Japan

• 6,000 images within the next few months with 2,000 by mid-April.

• Images not available anywhere else• Watch facebook for announcements