“Shared Shelf, the Next-Generation Art and Image Cataloging System, Goes Online”

From Harvard University Library:

Pictures say a thousand words, and Shared Shelf, the Library’s latest image cataloging tool, captures them all. The over 4 million images in the Library’s collections should now be even more discoverable through the use of Shared Shelf, which replaced Harvard’s proprietary system OLIVIA last month.
Shared Shelf grew out of a collaboration between nine institutions and ARTstor in response to the growing use of, demand for and importance of visual objects in library collections. Harvard was one of the earliest participants in the project, and much of the functional design grew out of the experience and expertise of the Library’s image catalogers and Library Technology Services (LTS) staff members.
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The collections of over 39 repositories were successfully migrated to Shared Shelf and users from 12 repositories have begun to catalog images of all types from their collections. The DRS remains the image storage and delivery system, and VIA is the patron-facing image catalog—Shared Shelf acts as the bridge between the items and the search function. LTS will continue to support OLIVIA until it is decommissioned in the summer.

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Shared Shelf Partners

• Colby College
• Cornell University
• Harvard University
• Middlebury College
• New York University
• Society of Architectural Historians
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• University of Miami
• Yale University

See Also: List of Shared Shelf Subscribers
See Also: Shared Shelf Wiki
See Also: Project Updated: Shared Shelf (April 1, 2014)
See Also: ARTstor Shared Shelf Initiative: A Networked Image Management Platform (via CNI Fall 2009 Meeting)
See Also: Shared Shelf Grant Announcement (via Mellon Foundation)

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