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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ART MUSEUMS TO MAKE DIGITAL IMAGES AVAILABLE FOR EDUCATION The members of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AMICO) are investigating the formation of a consortium to make their digital documentation collectively available to the educational community. Representatives of major North American Museums are holding a series of meetings to define the terms of their collaboration and to outline the nature of a common digital library of text, image and multimedia data. AMICO will build a collective library documenting the collections of its member museums, the AMICO web site at http://www.amn.org/AMICO explains. The initial focus will be a reference product for educational use that will be licensed to American universities. Future activities will explore providing museum content to the K12 educational community and to the home market. Data types distributed initially will include text, image, 3D and potentially video and sound. Details about this emerging project can be found at http://www.amn.org/AMICO. The report of the group's most recent meeting is also available at this site. Questions regarding AMICO can be directed to: Maxwell Anderson, Liaison for Information Technology, Association of Art Museum Directors ([log in to unmask]) or Jennifer Trant or David Bearman Archives & Museum Informatics. ([log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask])