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Hello -- The Visual Resources Association invites ARLIS members to attend
three of our Saturday events during the conference. All of these will
take place in the Warwick Hotel at the corner of 17th and Locust Streets.
You do not need to be registered for the VRA conference to attend these
events, but you must be wearing your ARLIS/NA conference name badge in
order to gain admittance. See below for a full description of these
events.
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8:30 - 10:00 A.M.
Presentation I
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO): Educational Access to Museum
Multimedia Documentation
In October of 1997, twenty-three of the largest art museums in North
America created the not-for-profit Art Museum Image Consortium in order to
make digital documentation of their collections available for educational
use (see http://www.AMN.org/AMICO). AMICO will offer universities (and
eventually public libraries and K-12 school systems) access to an
unprecedented breadth and depth of art documentation in text, image, and
multimedia. AMICO participants will report on the development of the
consortium and the status of the University Testbed Project (the first in
a series of collaborative initiatives with AMICO's various
constituencies), which will offer a library of over 22,000 artworks to
selected universities during the 1998-99 academic year. Updates will also
be given on plans to further the growth of the library through
collaboration with foreign consortia of museums, and with artists and
artists rights organizations. Audience questions are welcome.
10:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Roundup
New Technologies
Coordinator: Julia Murphy, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences.
Exhibitors: to be announced.
Displays by several vendors of slides, digital images, software, and other
resources for people who work with image collections. A list of vendors
will be provided in the VRA registration packet.
12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
Presentation II
Museum Digital Licensing Collective (MDLC)
The Museum Digital Licensing Collective (MDLC) is a non-profit corporation
formed to provide technical and financial assistance for the digitization
of museum materials and to manage the storage, distribution, and licensing
of digitized materials to educational institutions and the public. The
MDLC will be organized and run in conjunction with museums to serve the
entire American museum community. The MDLC will fund the necessary
technical services to handle all aspects of safely storing and
distributing digitized museum materials and licensing these images. The
MDLC also will help finance the digitizing by museums of significant
museum holdings through grants and donated funds, then license these
collections to build eventually a stream of site licensing income to fund
continuing digitization projects. Prominent museum and educational
organizations have expressed interest in the development of the MDLC,
including the American Association of Museums, with which the MDLC expects
to have a special affiliation. Computer services will be performed under
contract with academic research libraries at the University of California,
Berkeley, and Cornell University. Sun Microsystems will be the initial
technology provider for the MDLC. There will be time for questions after
the presentation.
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JEANETTE C. MILLS School of Art
University of Washington
Director of Visual Services Box 353440
Seattle, WA 98195-3440
Vice President, email: [log in to unmask]
Visual Resources Association voice: (206) 543-0649
fax: (206) 685-1657
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
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