I believe that this is a good summary of this issue. M
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>Thread-Topic: AMICO, AMICA, CAMIO and ARTstor
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>Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:07:56 -0400
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>Subject: Re: AMICO, AMICA, CAMIO and ARTstor
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>Randi,
>
>I think it works like this. Contrary to what all of the vendors have
>insinuated (but not said), AMICO is officially defunct. Period.
>However, RLG, ARTstor, Cartographic Associates and Wilson (you left them
>out) have all negotiated independently with the museums who are former
>members of the AMICO consortium. All four of these vendors have been
>able to negotiate non-exclusive agreements with the former AMICO museums
>and seem to have gotten around 90% of the images which were in AMICO,
>some of them have further negotiated with other institutions and will be
>including images that were not in AMICO. So, AMICO is dead, and four
>vendors are offering similar, largely overlapping collections.
>
>I hope that explains things.
>
>
>Best,
>
>EW
>
>Eric Wolf
>Director of the Library
>New York School of Interior Design
>170 East 70th Street
>New York, NY 10021
>212-472-1500 x216
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Randi Millman-Brown [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:00 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: AMICO, AMICA, CAMIO and ARTstor
>
>OK - so it is Friday - a beautiful sunny (!) day in Ithaca and I am
>thinking about image databases!!
>
>I must say I am a little confused about recent postings regarding all
>of the above. It was my understanding that the AMICO images would be
>added to ARTstor. From the recent posting I received from RLG, it
>sounds like they have taken those images instead and started CAMIO.
>Then the posting from Cartography Associates says that they are taking
>the AMICO library of images and beginning AMICA.
>
>Can someone explain this all to me a bit clearer - or maybe this coffee
>is too weak (I wish we had a Peet's Coffee like when I used to live in
>the Bay are - I need it today!)
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Randi
>
>
>
>Randi Millman-Brown, Visual Resources Curator
>Department of Art History
>Ithaca College
>1160 Gannett Center
>Ithaca, NY 14850
>607.274.3198
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