In a comment on the Business Plan, Mikki Carpenter of MOMA wrote:

> On another note, in what form will contributions be 
> expected? Will we be contributing images and associated text 
> on Photo CD, Jazz drive disks, or some other medium? This 
> may well affect institutional ability to provide materials 
> in a timely and efficient way.

Technical and documentation standards will be established by the Board of AMICO. For the Consortium to move into production, we will have to develop a clear technical specification for data interchange. This would include file format and delivery media, and would reflect practice in the community. Our goal will be to set a fixed target for museums to be able to work to.

It may be too soon to define these formats now, as distribution is some time away. However, it is safe to assume that these requirements will be reasonable.

jt

J. Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics, jtrant@archimuse.com