This group catalogue, launched in May 2014, offers an art-focused research experience within the WorldCat environment. Selected art library catalogues are searchable alongside additional content from a multitude of additional sources, promising more comprehensive results in a global setting. Powered by WorldCat, coordinated by the artlibraries.net committee, the project has been developed in the context of the Future of Art Bibliography initiative.

1. The Art Discovery Group Catalogue
goals, development, organization
and future prospects
6th artlibraries.net general meeting
Copenhagen 2014
Geert-Jan Koot
g.koot@rijksmuseum.nl

2. FAB
The Future of Art Bibliography
“A common electronic research index
as a power-plant for information
research in art history”

4. Adamnet group catalogue

6. Art Discovery
The discovery tool for art historical research
http://Artlibraries.worldcat.org

7. Facets in Art Discovery

8. Meta-data pool
• 1,982 databases
• 200 million articles and e-books
• 96,000 journal titles,
– 78,000 journal titles without authentication or subscription
• OCLC ArticleFirst
• PapersFirst
• ProceedingsFirst
• MEDLINE
• ERIC
• British Library Inside Serials
• JSTOR
• OAIster
• Elsevier
• etc.
– 18,000 journal titles restricted

9. 36 individual art libraries
Accademia di architettura - Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Mendrisio, Switzerland
Albertina, Bibliothek, Vienna, Austria
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NJ, USA
Berenson Library, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy
Bibliothèque des arts décoratifs, Paris, France
Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, (NYARC), New York, NJ, USA
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Art Library, Lisbon, Portugal
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ingalls Library, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Frick Reference Art Library, (NYARC), New York, NJ, USA
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Bibliothek, Nürnberg, Germany
Getty Research Institute Library, Los Angeles, California, USA
Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), Bibliothèque, Paris, France
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
Kunsthaus Zürich, Bibliothek, Zürich, Switzerland
Marquand Library of Art and Archeology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Musées d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève, Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie, Geneva
Museum of Modern Art Library, (NYARC), New York, NJ, USA
National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
National Gallery of Art Library, Washington D.C., USA
National Gallery of Australia Research Library, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
National Museum of Western Art, Research Library, Tokyo, Japan
National Portrait Gallery of Australia Research Library, Canberra, Australia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Rijksmuseum Research Library, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), The Hague, The Netherlands
Royal Institute of British Architects, Library, London, Great Britain
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB), Germany
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, Williamstown, MA, USA
Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), Zürich, Switzerland
Thomas J. Watson Library, MetropolitanMuseum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg, Germany
University of Texas Art Library, Austin, USA
William Morris Hunt Memorial Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA , USA

10. 3 networks and union catalogues
24 individual libraries Kubikat, Germany
 Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Max-Planck-Institut (Florence, Italy)
 Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich
 Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte / Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art, Paris
 Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome
Union Catalogue of Düsseldorf Cultural Institutions, Germany
 Filmmuseum Düsseldorf
 Görres-Gymnasium Düsseldorf
 Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf / Anton-und-Katharina-Kippenberg-Stiftung
 Heinrich-Heine-Institut Düsseldorf
 Hetjens-Museum / Deutsches Keramikmuseum Düsseldorf
 Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
 Restaurierungszentrum Düsseldorf - Schenkung Henkel
 Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf
 Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
 Theatermuseum / Dumont-Lindemann-Archiv Düsseldorf
 Institut Français Düsseldorf
 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf
IRIS Consortium, Florence, Italy
 Library of the Uffizi. Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale
della città di Firenze
 Library of the Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi
 Library of the Dutch University Institute for Art History
 Library of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento
 The «Ugo Procacci» Library, Opificio delle Pietre Dure
 Leonardiana Library, Center for Research and Documentation of Leonardo Studies
 Bill Kent Library, Monash University Prato Centre

11. 9 catalogues to be loaded into WorldCat
• Albertina, Bibliothek, Vienna, Austria
• Art Library, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
• Bibliothèque des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France
• British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British
Architects, London, Great Britain
• IRIS Consortium, Firenze, Italy
• Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Nürnberg, Germany
• Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
• Gesamtkatalog der Düsseldorfer Kulturinstitute (GDK),
Düsseldorf, Germany (consortium)
• RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), The Hague, The
Netherlands

12. Art Discovery taskforce
• Véronique Goncerut Estèbe, Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie des
Musées d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
• Rüdiger Hoyer, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
• Deborah Kempe, Frick Art Reference Library, New York, USA
• Geert-Jan Koot, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Paulo Leitao, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
• Michael Rocke, Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti, Florence, Italy
• Kathleen Salomon, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA
• Jan Simane, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut),
Florence, Italy

13. Financial support
• Getty Research Institute (GRI)
implementation Art Discovery Group Catalogue
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation
one-time costs of the data loads to WorldCat for those
libraries that are not yet part of WorldCat in need of
assistance
first year of subscription fees for those libraries who had
not budgeted for these costs in the current fiscal year

14. 2014 Pricing for Art Discovery Group Catalog
Annual subscription fee
Categories 1 and 2 = libraries that meet all prerequisites through existing agreements with OCLC:
Collection size EUR USD YEN GBP
< 10,000 358.75 484 37,779 305
< 200,000 461.25 625 48,570 395
> 200,000 666.25 900 70,160 570
Category 3 = libraries that have no current agreement for WorldCat on FirstSearch or (in EMEA) an
agreement for visibility in WorldCat.org:
Collection size EUR USD YEN GBP
< 10,000 871.25 1,176 91,749 741
< 200,000 973.75 1,315 102,540 830
> 200,000 1,076.25 1,455 113,340 915
This fee only includes participation in the WorldCat Group Catalog. It does not include WorldCat on
FirstSearch, it does not include cataloging and does not include a metadata conversion or batchload.
One-time set-up fee
EUR USD YEN GBP
307 414 32,329 261

16. letters of interest from another
8 libraries and 1 consortium
 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
 New York Public Library, New York, USA
 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
 Tate Gallery, London, UK
 University of the Arts London, UK
 Prado Museum Library, Madrid, Spain
 Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Bibliothèque, Paris, France
 Anet, a consortium of 20 academic libraries in Antwerp, Belgium

17. 1,982 WorldCat Local Databases and
Collections
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/worldcat-local/overview/content/dblist/WorldCat_Local_Content_List.xls

18. Coverage of databases in Art Discovery
Art Index At least 75% of ISSNs
Art Index Full Text At least 75% of ISSNs
Art Index Retrospective no known coverage
Artbibliographies Modern (ABM) no known coverage
DAAI: Art and Design Index no known coverage
Avery Index no known coverage
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) no known coverage
International Bibliography of Art (IBA) no known coverage
JSTOR 100% of records
AskART no known coverage
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
(formerly offered by OCLC) no known coverage
SCIPIO (OCLC) 100% of records
Oxford Art Online 100% of records
Getty Provenance Index no known coverage
ASCO Art Sales Catalogues Online no known coverage
Artprice.com no known coverage
Invaluable (formerly Artfact Pro) no known coverage
ARTstor no known coverage
Bridgeman Art no known coverage
Art Museum Image Gallery no known coverage
CAMIO (formerly offered by OCLC) 100% of records
Google Cultural Institute no known coverage

19. WorldCat® Digital Collection Gateway
A self-service tool for uploading the metadata of your digital
content to WorldCat
A worldwide repository providing integrated access and
increased visibility
“The Gateway is an important tool for the Clark to broaden the visibility of its
collections. From there we have created WorldCat lists and have also tied in online
interactive communities such as Facebook and other Web 2.0 tools.”
Penny Baker, Collections Management Librarian
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

20. The more libraries, the more content,
the more visibility

21. Art Discovery feels this big
interior of the José Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City

22. 19 May – 19 September = 124 days
2,839 visits
3,777 searches

23. Time spent per visit

24. Domain origin of visits

25. Domains Pageviews Visits UniqueVisitors Searches
1. None 978 5.0% 140 4.9% 113 6.6% 175 4.6%
2. rijksmuseum.nl 992 5.1% 123 4.3% 23 1.3% 183 4.8%
3. fi.it 2,108 10.8% 117 4.1% 23 1.3% 501 3.3%
4. verizonbusiness.com 777 4.0% 80 2.8% 16 0.9% 271 7.2%
5. uiowa.edu 84 0.4% 80 2.8% 1 0.1% 1 0.0%
6. nact.jp 613 3.1% 61 2.1% 39 2.3% 138 3.7%
7. rr.com 330 1.7% 59 2.1% 36 2.1% 89 2.4%
8. getty.edu 292 1.5% 45 1.6% 21 1.2% 48 1.3%
9. cornell.edu 168 0.9% 45 1.6% 33 1.9% 24 0.6%
10. lrz-muenchen.de 613 3.1% 42 1.5% 4 0.2% 98 2.6%
11. zikg.eu 444 2.3% 42 1.5% 9 0.5% 84 2.2%
12. bit-drive.ne.jp 165 0.8% 40 1.4% 2 0.1% 23 0.6%
13. comcast.net 152 0.8% 38 1.3% 33 1.9% 34 0.9%
14. verizon.net 134 0.7% 34 1.2% 28 1.6% 21 0.6%
15. oclcpica.org 344 1.8% 30 1.1% 11 0.6% 51 1.4%
16. museothyssen.org 153 0.8% 30 1.1% 2 0.1% 37 1.0%
17. oclc.org 112 0.6% 30 1.1% 26 1.5% 18 0.5%
18. dm-art.org 31 0.2% 30 1.1% 1 0.1% 0 0.0%
19. wanadoo.fr 241 1.2% 29 1.0% 26 1.5% 39 1.0%
20. frick.org 408 2.1% 28 1.0% 10 0.6% 59 1.6%
21. ocn.ne.jp 148 0.8% 28 1.0% 22 1.3% 30 0.8%
22. konstfack.se 156 0.8% 26 0.9% 9 0.5% 17 0.5%
23. harvard.edu 108 0.6% 24 0.8% 10 0.6% 16 0.4%
24. gilmour.org 172 0.9% 23 0.8% 20 1.2% 64 1.7%
25. spk-berlin.de 129 0.7% 23 0.8% 14 0.8% 21 0.6%

26. Supporting the Changing Research
Practices of Art Historians (Ithaka S+R)
• Needs for better tools for discovering objects
• Needs for improved discovery services and non-textual
sources
• Needs for better skills and research tools for
working with digital images
• The ability to borrow materials from a wide
network

27. Art Discovery
The discovery tool for art historical research
http://Artlibraries.worldcat.org

29. Thank you for your interest in
Art Discovery
Geert-Jan Koot
g.koot@rijksmuseum.nl