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Boston College has been chosen as one of the testbed sites for a new digital archive of images from art museums; excerpt from article in the Boston College Chronicle:

(3-24-98) -- Boston College scholars will be among the first to have access to a "virtual library" of paintings and sculptures when the University serves as a trial site this fall for a new online archive of art slides from leading museums across North America.

The University is one of 20 institutions participating in a test of the archive during the 1998-99 academic year, when 20,000 high-resolution images are to be made available online by the Art Museum Image Consortium, a not-for-profit coalition of 23 prominent art museums in the United States and Canada. Plans call for the online library to be made available under license to all higher education institutions in the 1999-2000 academic year, with between 5,000 and 10,000 images being added per year.

Boston College Chronicle article on the AMICO project and the Virtual Library; full text.

WWW version of presentation given by Jerome Yavarkovsky on the AMICO project at the CNI conference, April, 1998.

WWW version of presentation given by Jeffery Howe at Boston College Technology Day, May, 1998

University Testbed Project Participants 1998/1999 Academic Year

1. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

California State Universities, CA:
2. San Jose State, San Jose, CA
3. Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

4. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

5.Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

6. Harvard University, Boston, MA , USA

7. Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA and

8. Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, IN, USA

9. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

10. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

11. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

12. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

13. University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

14. University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

15. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

16. University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario,

17. University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough,Ontario

18. Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA

19. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

20. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

The AMICO Library will be available under license to all higher educational institutions in the 1999/2000 academic year. Access to the AMICO Library during the University Testbed Project is being provided by the Research Libraries Group (RLG), Mountain View, CA, USA. RLG will offer access to universities under subscription beginning in the 1999/2000 academic year.

AMICO is in discussions with the California Digital Library initiative and the OhioLINK Consortium to act as distributors to their higher education constituencies beginning with the 1999/2000 academic year. A number of other distributors will serve Public Libraries and Kindergarten through Grade 12 Educational Institutions beginning in 1999/2000.

AMICO is a not-for-profit consortium of institutions with collections of art, who have come together to improve educational access to the documentation of objects in their care. Further information about joining AMICO, and details of its license terms and programs, is available at the Consortium's web site http://www.amico.net or contact Jennifer Trant <jtrant@archimuse.com> or David Bearman <dbear@archimuse.com> AMICO's Management Consultants.

AMICO Founding Members

1.Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2.Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

3.Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

4.Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY

5.Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

6.Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

7.Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

8.Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

9.George Eastman House, Rochester, NY 10.J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

11.Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

12.Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

13.Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

14.Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

15.Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec

16.Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

17.Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

18.National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

19.National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

20.Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

21.San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

22.San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

23.Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

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