ARTstor, the digital library of art that I am helping to build, took it’s first tentative steps into the world as a “real” service yesterday, as we ran our first “train the trainer” session for staff of test institutions.

There were a few initial hiccups with the obligatory server reboots etc., but overall it sounds as though it went very well and people were excited by the possibilities. Of course there’s still a long way to go before it’s being widely used on campuses, but its definitely an encouraging start.