Dear AMICOs,

RLG has developed a tool for you to review the JPEG files they have created from your contributed images. You need to review these to identify missing, misoriented, or problematic TIFFs.

This is NOT the Preview or Testbed interface for the delivery of the Library. It is just a tool tailored for you to review your images. Arnold Arcolio at RLG says "The Image Reviewer provides a minimal search interface where both searching and display are tailored to the needs of contributors, rather than users. Contributors can view thumbnails for all images for works contributed by an institution, or retrieve selected images by TIFF name or AMICO record ID."

Your search results will be shown as a list, showing one thumbnail and three selected fields from the AMICO cataloging record. Selecting the thumbnail generates a full display, for each work of art, which includes all of the derived images in all sizes, for that record. The full display includes a "notebook" feature to help you log information about problem images. The notebook is a place to collect comments during a session. IT IS UP TO YOU to print or save or send the comments at the end of the session--the interface DOESN'T retain them.

RLG has made some comments about images as they have processed them. They are inked to the bottom of the display when you search on your institution's name. These comments were collected before the last set of corrections went to RLG, so they over report missing images; the comments also include instances where the original images were damaged in some way.

*** Please review the RLG comments for your images ***

You can find the image reviewer at:

     http://eureka.rlg.org/amico/imageReviewer.html

using the amicola/swordfish id/password combination.

The welcome screen includes a link to a set of example problem images, so you can see the kinds of things you should be looking for.

It is important that you review your contributed images promptly, so that we can correct as many errors as possible before the Preview of the Library is released on July 6, 1998. The Preview system will, of course, offer other and richer forms of access, entirely different displays, different screen designs and navigation tailored for a user of the AMICO Library.

Please plan to submit one new batch of images, if replacements are necessary. We'll post instructions about how to submit your new files shortly. If you have any questions, please post them to the Hypernews discussion, since you are probably not alone in asking.

Thanks for taking a look - and to RLG for providing this facility.

jennifer and David