JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services: Tier Overview

To add or remove users for your institution, please contact Support.

Permissioned users may access and edit all collections for your institution. ¹

Add or remove users for your institution and manage user access to projects, cataloging forms, and publishing targets at the institution and/or individual project level.

See Managing user access.

Follow step-by-step guidance to import your collection’s metadata, review and customize your fields, and upload associated media files.

See Creating a collection.

Build collections with flexible media or metadata-first workflows or start by copying an existing project.

See Creating and editing projects.

Preserve your collections with OAIS-compliant digital preservation in Portico.

See Preservation: Getting Started.

Generate metadata, transcripts, and project summaries for images, handwritten documents, and text-based materials (PDF, JPEG, and TIFF only) with JSTOR Seeklight.

Review and edit records with built-in tagging and confidence scores.

See JSTOR Seeklight: Overview.

Support for text, image, audio, and video content.

General resource types are assigned automatically and cannot be manually specified.

See Supported file types and sizes [Tier 1].

Support for text, image, audio, and video content.

Specific resource types can be customized in item metadata (recommended).

See Supported file types and sizes [Tiers 2-3] and JSTOR Content and Resource Types.

Combine and sequence multiple image files in compound objects.

See Compound objects.

Combine and sequence multiple image files in compound objects.

In addition, group and organize related items within a collection using containers and compilations (sub-collections).

See Related content: compound objects, containers, and compilations.

Generate searchable transcripts automatically for audio and video containing spoken word content.

Optionally, upload a custom transcript (VTT or SRT).

See Transcripts for audio and video [Tier 1] and Transcripts for audio and video [Tiers 2-3].

Start with our recommended fields or provide your own schema.

Metadata fields cannot be renamed or removed after collection creation; however, you may add additional fields.

See Metadata fields.

Create structured metadata using your own custom schema or start with a standard schema such as the JSTOR template, Visual Resources template, Dublin Core, or Archivision.

Metadata fields can be added, edited, or removed at any time after creating a collection.

See Creating and editing projects.

Note: Projects created with JSTOR Seeklight ² use an AI-compatible Dublin Core-based schema. Fields cannot be added, edited, or removed from this schema.

Support for Text fields only. (Date metadata is extracted and formatted automatically.)

List and Linked Authority fields (ex. Getty vocabularies) are not supported.

See Metadata fields.

Support for Text, Text Area, Alphanumeric, Number, Date, Boolean, List, and Linked Authority fields (ex. Getty vocabularies).

In addition, specify if metadata fields are required, read-only, and/or provide default values.

See Managing project fields.

Create custom cataloging forms for different user roles.

See Managing cataloging forms.

View items in grid view with thumbnails or table view with thumbnails and metadata.

In addition, sort and filter items by metadata values and create saved sets of items and/or dynamic filters for yourself or to share with other users.

See Setting up your project view and Sets and filters.

Edit records in bulk with built-in tools or with an Excel spreadsheet.

See Cataloging items and Creating, editing, and deleting data using Excel.

Update your collection name at any time without changing its published URL.

See Managing publishing targets.

Share collections on JSTOR with members of your institution or researchers on the open web.

See Publish items and collections.

Share collections on JSTOR with members of your institution or researchers on the open web.

In addition, publish collections to Omeka, OAI-PMH, and contribute to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

See Publish and share content.

Measure your shared collections’ impact with a self-service usage analytics dashboard.

See Usage reports for shared collections on JSTOR.