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Dear AMICO Users Committee: I'm enclosing correspondence with Jim Bower of the GII, who is chairing the CAA session next year on "Approaching the Threshold: The Millennium Concept" - about art history in the new millenium. He's interested in a proposal from AMICO - some preliminary thoughts are in the message below. Any volunteers for authors, co-authors, etc? jt
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:36:48 -0800 From: James Bower <JBower@getty.edu> To: jtrant@archimuse.com Cc: dbear@archimuse.com Subject: CAA/CEI 1999 session -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Dear Jennifer -- No, it's not too late to submit a proposal for the CAA '99 panel "Approaching the Threshold". A paper about AMICO would be highly relevant. Here are some questions that you might address in the proposal, to fit with the session focus: How are AMICO participants selecting and prioritizing the materials to be contributed to the testbed? Are they simply choosing the "greatest hits" from their collections (thus perpetuating an art-historical canon)? Is the selection being driven by technical considerations? Over time, how would the testbed be grown to meet the research and teaching needs of CAA members? Who are the key partners that AMICO must enlist in order to ensure its success? What are the methods/processes by which those partnerships will be developed, evaluated, sustained? What are the shared values that will inform those partnerships? I look forward to receiving your proposal. Thanks for your interest. Jim
>>> "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com> 05/14/98 09:37am >>>Dear Jim, I've just returned from holiday [a much needed week at the beach after Museums and the Web] to discover that the deadline for submitting CAA paper proposals has just past. Is it too late to send you a proposal for a paper exploring the collaborative work AMICO is doing with universities in the testbed project [and if our funding requests are successful with the state of Arizona and the City of Indianapolis]. All these projects are looking at new models for moving multimedia museum documentation out of the gallery and into the hands of people who use it for research, education and enjoyment. AMICO is working collaboratively, nationally and internationally, to create an environment where fair use and licensed access coexist in a not-for-profit environment. Creating an informed and educated constituency for the arts is key to their continued relevance in the 21st century. Finding ways and means to include contemporary art in digital form is critical to ensure that digital art history isn't prematurely truncated. Let me now if I should turn this into a full proposal, CAA-style. Thanks. jt -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museum Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- |