Before I forget them, here are some Q's that came up in a campus Testbed meeting today: 1. Will students who create work using AMICO images be able to exhibit the work? If so, where? 2. Will students and faculty who create work using AMICO images be able to sell the work? 3. At what point in the process of manipulation of AMICO images does the result cease to be an AMICO image and become an original work of art? 4. When the AMICO Library is updated each year, will the old library be archived for future reference? 5. How will non-historical subject searches be facilitated? For example, if a historian wanted to research images of ancient food preparation, would they be able to do it? 6. How good, in layman's terms, will the images be? 7. Who, at the museums, is actually doing the work of creating the AMICO Library? In particular, who is creating the "deep data?" 8. Will the museums manage to keep up with the AMICO work load? 9. Will the AMICO license allow for use of images in scholarly publications? 10. Who determines what images the AMICO Library contains and how? 11. Will users be able to influence what images the AMICO Library contains? 12. Will illuminated manuscripts and illustrated books be part of the AMICO Library? 13. How will the search engine work? Will I be able, for example, to find all the objects from Giza at the Museum of Fine Arts? 14. How much "deep data" will be available during the testbed year? 15. What will the subscription levels be? 16. Will there be media other than text and images in the deep data and if so, how much? 17. What is the best way to direct questions/comments/requests to AMICO? Unfortunately, I don't have A's to all of these! Peter |