Subject: Demonstration of Academic Image Cooperative's Prototype Digital Image Repository
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:23:03 -0500
Message-Id: <v04210102b4cdcc2f4759@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:23:03 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: Demonstration of Academic Image Cooperative's Prototype Digital Image Repository
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February 14, 2000
DEMONSTRATION OF THE ACADEMIC IMAGE COOPERATIVE (AIC)
DIGITAL IMAGE REPOSITORY
http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfinit.htm#a
at Annual Conference of College Art Association (Feb 23-26, 2000)
http://www.collegeart.org
The Academic Image Cooperative will be demonstrating the prototype
version of its digital image repository during the upcoming
conference of the College Art Association in New York City. The
images within this digital library, and the objects they represent,
are either in the public domain, or have been licensed by their
copyright holders to be distributed for use in non-profit teaching
and learning.
David Green
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>Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:44:16 -0500
>To: rabaron@pipeline.com
>From: "Robert A. Baron" <rabaron@pipeline.com>
>Subject: ACADEMIC IMAGE COOPERATIVE Demonstration
>
>[Dear Recipient: This notice is being distributed broadly to a number of
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>DEMONSTRATION OF THE ACADEMIC IMAGE COOPERATIVE
>-
>The Academic Image Cooperative (AIC) will demonstrate a prototype version
>of its digital image repository and access software at the College Art
>Association meeting's Trade and Book Fair. The College Art Association
>conference is being held at the New York Hilton and Towers, 6th Ave,
>between 53rd and 54th Street, from February 23-26, 2000.
>-
>Demonstrations at the Trade and Book Fair will take place on Thursday, from
>9:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m.; Friday, from 9:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m.; and
>on Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. through 2:30 p.m. at booth 11. In addition,
>there will be a public demonstration of the AIC with a question and answer
>session on Thursday, February 24 at the New York Hilton in the Sutton
>Parlor South, from 5:30-7:00 p.m. The Trade and Book Fair is open to
>convention registrants and to purchasers of one-day Book Fair passes.
>-
>For further information on the AIC consult
>http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfinit.htm#a. (For information on the College
>Art Association conference, see http://www.collegeart.org.)
>-
>for the Digital Library Federation,
>Dan Greenstein
>Rebecca Graham
>-
>for the Academic Image Cooperative,
>Robert A. Baron
>Christine L. Sundt
>Max Marmor
>Katie Hollander
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From the Web page of the Digital Library Federation:
>The current AIC prototype development phase is funded by the Digital
>Library Federation and by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, sponsored
>by the College Art Association and has received the enthusiastic
>support and good wishes of the Visual Resources Association. The
>prototype system will be demonstrated at the annual College Art
>Association meeting in New York in February 2000.
>
> The AIC is in the process of creating a web-based repository of
>digital images (and accompanying descriptive cataloging records)
>adequate in quality and scope to serve the need for digital images
>of the majority of survey courses teaching Western art history. The
>images and the objects they represent, are either in the public
>domain, or have been licensed by their copyright holders to be
>distributed for use in non-profit teaching and learning. Under these
>conditions they are specifically designated to be used freely by
>educators, artists, students and scholars.
>
> The prototype development phase will also assess potential
>trajectories for the future of the AIC. Our goals include continuing
>the AIC beyond the initial prototype phase and making access to AIC
>images available to the widest possible community.
>
> While the immediate goal of the AIC is to create a prototype
>digital image library that responds to common curricular needs, we
>hope it may evolve beyond a prototype phase and into a resource that
>is large enough, and good enough, to support research and
>scholarship.
>
>To that end, we hope that the present emphasise on developing a
>prototype image resource for the traditional art history survey may
>be extended into a more lasting phase when the resource itself may
>be supplemented by more highly focused, curriculum-based materials
>supporting work in art history and possibly other disciplines.
>
>In planning the next phase of the AIC's development, we will be
>consulting a range of groups and interested parties. AIC
>demonstrations at the College Art Association meeting in New York in
>February, the ARLIS conference in March and the VRA conference in
>April will provide conference attendees an opportunity to view a
>demonstration of the prototype and will be invited to return a
>questionnaire about their specific needs and about the content of
>the demonstration.
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