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Date: 3 July 1998 To: AMICO University Testbed Participants
From: John Haeger, Vice President, RLG Jennifer Trant and David Bearman, Management Consultants to AMICO
Subject: AMICO University Testbed Access We are now very close to the July 6th release of the AMICO Library Preview site -- one of the largest collections of digital museum documentation offered anywhere in the world. In preparation, we've been asking for a number of pieces of information from you, and for the return of certain documents. We'd like to summarize in this message. To enable access to the AMICO University Testbed, you need to:
1. Return a signed copy of RLG Service Agreement TO: Alice Tow RLG Integrated Information Services 1200 Villa Street Mountain View, CA 94041-1100
2. Provide RLG with a Technical Contact, and IP addresses to be enabled [if desired] TO: Alice Tow RLG Integrated Information Services 1200 Villa Street Mountain View, CA 94041-1100
3. Return a signed copy of the AMICO Library University Agreement TO: Art Museum Image Consortium 5501 Walnut St, #203 Pittsburgh, PA 15232 Each of these items is explained further below. 1. RLG SERVICE AGREEMENT RLG apologizes for confusion engendered by their mailing dated June 22, which included the RLG Service Agreement, Exhibit C to the Service Agreement [Special Service Terms for the AMICO Library Testbed Participants], the "Rates for User Services" publication, a Search Block Order Form, and Online Resources Subscription Order Form, and a cover letter. Exhibit C, "Special Service Terms for the AMICO Library Testbed Participants" is defective. This will be redrafted next week. A revised version will then be (a) posted to the AMICO website, and (b) sent to you by mail. The "Rates for User Services" booklet and the Order Forms are irrelevant unless you wish to order RLG services in addition to the AMICO testbed. If all you wish at this time is access to the AMICO testbed, you may disregard or discard these documents. The "RLG Service Agreement" is a general purpose agreement to be signed by any institution receiving services of any kind from RLG. Please continue your review of this document with a view to having it duly signed and returned to RLG as soon as possible. Any questions about the RLG service agreement can be sent to Katherine Martinez at RLG <bl.kcm@rlg.org> or posted to the Library Structure and Distribution discussion list at /HyperNews/get/testbed/lib.html 2. TECHNICAL CONTACT DETAILS RLG needs a single point of contact for technical liaison. With a letter on June 23rd you received a form asking for this. You MUST name a technical contact. This same letter also asked for a list of IP addresses you would like to have enabled. Listing IP addresses is optional. Initially, there will be two ways of authenticating user access to the AMICO Library: via IP address and via username/password logins RLG will supply passwords for access to the AMICO Library. If you do not provide RLG with a list of IP addresses, passwords will be your ONLY point of access. 3. AMICO LIBRARY UNIVERSITY AGREEMENT The text of the AMICO Library University Agreement is downloadable from /univ_testbed/univ.final2.shtml This agreement outlines the terms and conditions under which you can use the AMICO Library. Any questions or comments about this agreement should be posted to the Licenses and Rights Discussion, at /HyperNews/get/testbed/rights.html A NOTE ABOUT FEES The schedule of fees for the AMICO University Testbed [comprising the Service fee from RLG and the AMICO license fee] is available at: These fees do not include the license fee discount of 25% which will be offered in 8 subsequent years to testbed participants. RLG will send a separate invoice for these fees to you. TESTBED ACCESS RLG plans to launch the "Preview" of the AMICO Library on Monday July 6th. This limited view of the AMICO Library will enable you to see what it contains, and develop plans for its use in the coming year. It will also contain incremental releases of functionality. We are very interested in getting your feedback on the operation and design of the delivery system as it evolves. Please post questions and comments about the Preview to the online discussion of Library Structure and Distribution at: /HyperNews/get/testbed/lib.html RLG will contact each institution directly with usernames and passwords. FUTURE ACTIVITIES We're looking forward to working with you over the next year, to explore the many research questions still to be answered about using digital cultural heritage documentation in higher education. Since we are such a dispersed and disparate group, we'll try and use the AMICO University Testbed web site to communicate as much as possible. You can find the site at http://www.members.amico.org/univ_testbed/univ_testbed.html This is a secure site, with access restricted to Testbed Participants [user: testbed and password: groundzero] That way, we'll at least have a 'virtual center' for our activities. If there are things that you would like to see added, or documents that you would like to post, please suggest them. Thank you all for your patience as we ramp up. We're hoping that as you begin to use the AMICO Library you'll agree that the growing pains are a minor part of our exploration of new ways to deliver digital museum documentation for education. |