What is JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services? JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services solve common collection management challenges—fragmented tools, limited resources, and complex workflows—with a seamless, cloud-hosted solution to preserve, manage, and share collections efficiently. Developed by a mission-driven nonprofit in collaboration with librarians and archivists, these services integrate digital asset management, AI-assisted metadata generation, long-term preservation, and paths for increased discovery including sharing on JSTOR.
Messaging:
Collection stewardship is increasingly complex, requiring institutions to juggle preservation, digital asset management, description and metadata creation, and access with limited resources.
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services solve these challenges with a seamless, cloud-hosted solution that helps you describe, preserve, manage, and share your unique collections to realize their full potential.
Developed by JSTOR, a trusted nonprofit, in collaboration with librarians and archivists, it integrates digital asset management and long-term preservation with the AI-powered tools of JSTOR Seeklight for accelerating key stages of collection processing, starting with metadata generation and collection-level intelligence. Digital Stewardship Services also enhance discovery through sharing on JSTOR (openly or within your institution), indexing in major search engines such as Google, and integration with leading library discovery services, including those from EBSCO, OCLC, and Clarivate.
Find out how JSTOR’s services can accelerate and scale your workflow.
What our community is saying:
"ITHAKA’s AI tool for processing digital records has been a tremendous benefit for Brooklyn College. We have over 1500 digitized issues of several student newspapers (PDF’s of microfilm), and creating metadata for each issue has been a slow and tedious process. Even with the inevitable cleanup of the metadata we have saved countless intern hours, allowing us to give them more complex and varied assignments, enhancing their internship experience. The cleanup is primarily subject headings, where Odyssey often generates more than we feel are necessary. Overall, we highly recommend the Odyssey tool."
Prof. Colleen Bradley-Sanders, Head of Archives and Special Collections, Brooklyn College
My experience with the Project Odyssey beta tool was both impactful and eye-opening. Because I am a “lone arranger” for a college archives, my attention is daily pulled into many directions and, as every archivist knows, description and processing are best performed without constant interruptions. Using Project Odyssey will allow me to make significant and regular progress to render digital collections accessible, rather than having these projects sit “on the shelf” as I take care of time-sensitive requests. It is difficult to quantify just how much time the tool saved me by doing the work of reviewing thousands of documents and pulling valuable metadata in a matter of seconds! Project Odyssey took care of more than half of my description work for the two large collections I tested. I can now edit the gathered material, rather than spending endless hours creating, typing, and editing metadata to various descriptive systems and finding aids. Project Odyssey is an absolute must for archival or cultural institutions with small staffs and for any institutions committed to making large digital collections discoverable in a timely manner. Honestly, the work it did for my photo collection means that I can publish it a full year earlier than estimated!
Mary Atwell, Archivist Hood College, Frederick, MD
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TIER 1 Share on JSTOR |
TIER 2 Preserve, manage, and share |
TIER 3 AI-assisted stewardship with JSTOR Seeklight |
| Share collections on JSTOR to: | Everything from Tier 1, plus: | Everything from Tier 1 and Tier 2, plus: |
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