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Forwarded from the NINCH list. >>> NINCH-ANNOUNCE <[log in to unmask]> 06/08/01 05:08PM >>> NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN REUTERS AND ART MUSEUM NETWORK TO CREATE MAJOR FINE ARTS NEWS SERVICE http://www.artmuseumnetwork.org A little late, but I thought readers might be interested in this alliance between the Art Museum Network and Reuters to provide two forms of arts news service via the Art Museum Network. David Green =========== >New York, April 23, 2001-The Art Museum Network (AMN) and Reuters, >the global information, news and technology group, announced today >the launch of a project to establish an online fine arts information >report in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art, which >hosts the AMN website. The joint project will provide access for >journalists, other Reuters subscribers and, this fall, the entire >online public to the latest in art news. > >At the heart of the project will be the development by Reuters of >the AMN Fine Arts Report-an online report that will provide >information on exhibitions and special events at fine arts museums >around the world. This report will be marketed to any online >publisher interested in providing readers with information about >fine arts exhibits and events. > >Katharine Lee Reid, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and >President of the Association of Art Museum Directors, noted: "The >efforts of the Art Museum Network-from providing public access to >tens of thousands of images of works of art to jointly indexing the >exhibition calendars of many of the world's leading art museums-will >now be expanded to include news. The Cleveland Museum of Art, like >dozens of other art museums supporting AMN.org, is excited about >what this can mean to our institution in getting the word out about >how we serve our audiences and the collections they come to see." > >Whitney Director Maxwell L. Anderson commented, "The recent Forbes >'Best of the Web' story that singled out artmuseumnetwork.org as the >best solution for exploring art museums online has increased >traffic, and this partnership will multiply viewer traffic >exponentially. We are delighted that Reuters has agreed to open this >service to all 200 museums in the Art Museum Network. It's an >extraordinary opportunity for the public to become further engaged >in what is happening at art museums around the world." > >Tom Glocer, CEO-designate of Reuters, said: "Reuters news and >information is used by over 70 million people through Reuters' own >services to the financial markets as well as our online reports >available over 1,400 websites. We are very pleased to make the AMN >Fine Arts Report available as a complement to our financial, general >and specialty news services." > >The agreement will unfold in two phases. In Phase One, each museum >belonging to AMN will provide press releases to Reuters, which will >then redistribute the releases to online clients. For further >information on each press release, the user will be able to go >directly to http://www.artmuseumnetwork.org. In Phase Two, in the >fall of 2001, the Art Museum Network will create a database of all >press releases for use by the online public. The database will be >searchable by topic, institution, city, date, etc. > >The Art Museum Network was founded in 1996 as the Internet/broadcast >arm of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the oldest >and most respected professional museum association in the world. >Currently hosted by the Whitney Museum of American Art, AMN is the >official website of a consortium of over 200 of the world's leading >art museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the >British Museum. AMN, a not-for-profit effort, links content from the >AAMD's 170 North American members and 40 or so of the largest >museums in Europe and Asia, stretching from the Hermitage to the >Louvre, and from the Berlin Museum to the Prado. Each museum is >directly connected to AMN and is able to furnish up-to-date >exhibition information on a daily basis, which is automatically made >available on the Internet from AMN. > >Reuters supplies the global financial markets and news media with a >wide range of information products, including real-time financial >data, collective investment data, news, graphics, news video and >news pictures. In addition to supplying the financial markets, about >73 million unique visitors per month have access to Reuters content >on some 1,400 Internet websites. Reuters is the world's largest >international text and television news agency, with 2,157 >journalists, photographers and camera operators in 190 bureaus, >serving 151 countries. In 2000 the Group had revenues of ú3.59 >billion ($5.4 billion) and on December 31, 2000, the Group employed >18,082 staff in 204 cities in 100 countries. > > >[log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]