Patent ID: 8657606

Claim:
A jurying system for evaluating works of art, comprising: at least one database storing images of artwork of a plurality of artists and information regarding individual pieces of artwork and individual artists; a computer system in communication with the database and asynchronously accessible by a plurality of remotely located juror terminals that automatically captures and records data related to juror activity, the data comprising frequency of review, jurors average vote overall, average vote score per category, and how many applications were viewed in each voting round; wherein the computer system is accessible by an artist: for adding, deleting and rearranging individual pieces of the artist's artwork in at least one portfolio for submission as an entry to a competition, each portfolio comprising a plurality of images of individual pieces of the artist's artwork, and for entry of information regarding said individual pieces of the artist's artwork and the artist for creating a portfolio as an entry to a competition; wherein the computer system displays the portfolio as a presentation of the selected plurality of images of individual pieces of the artist's artwork and information correlated to the artwork and the artist at a remote terminal for evaluation of the portfolio by a juror; wherein the order of display of the individual pieces of the artist's artwork in the portfolio to the juror is determined by the artist online using the computer system.