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...everything Rudenstine does at ARTstor, however...
...ARTstor aims “to create a large—and indefinitely growing—database of digital images and accompanying scholarly information for use in art history and other humanistic fields of learning, including the related social sciences,” according to the organization’s website...
...least three days a week, Rudenstine works closely with the organization’s executive director and other staffers in their New York office, hashing out the details of ARTstor’s development. He also travels “quite a bit” on behalf of ARTstor, visiting art collections around the country...
Rudenstine says that many of the skills he uses in his work at ARTstor are skills he honed as a university administrator—particularly institution-building within the framework of teaching, learning and research...
When Rudenstine announced that he would be heading to ARTstor at the end of his Harvard tenure, many were surprised to see him take on a venture so closely entwined with technology. After all, Rudenstine didn’t even have a computer in his Mass. Hall office. He was known for his hand-written thank-you notes; he left e-mail and typing to his assistants...