The message below was originally sent July 3, 1998. It is being re-sent as a test of the University Testbed HyperNews setup.

Please notify me at webmaster@amn.org if you did not received this message on July 3.

Thank you.

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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: 

   /univ_testbed/fees.html 

   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.