Dr. Rhyne's dilemma
Base: Users and Uses
Re: ## Sample User correspondence (J. Trant)
Keywords: user needs
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:09:03 GMT
From: Peter Walsh, Davis Museum, Wellesley College <pwalsh@wellesley.edu>

Actually, I believe Dr. Rhyne is slightly mistaken about what AMICO is about. From my point of view, member museums are not so much "choosing" what images to send as they are "funneling" what they have already into AMICO's database. In the case of the Davis, we are planning to send everything that we digitize to AMICO in the highest quality format we can manage. To me, the goal and the value of AMICO is to have a library with numbers of images and amounts of data far larger than has be assembled in the past-- hundreds of thousands or millions of objects at some point in the not too distant future. The "choosing" will then take place by the users. This notion is something we should probably take into account when presenting AMICO-- that its goal is not to present "selections" but as large a portion of the entire holdings of as many art museums as can be done.