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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
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