Beth Sandore Associate Professor Coordinator, Digital Imaging Initiative 454 Grainger Engineering Library Information Center 1301 W. Springfield Ave. University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois 61801 Tel. 217.333.2592 Fax 217.244.7764 Net sandore@uiuc.edu http://www.library.uiuc.edu/faculty/sandore.htm http://images.grainger.uiuc.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:17:40 -0600 (CST) From: Ann Hanlon <a-hanlon@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> To: sandore@uiuc.edu Subject: AMICO Q&A On Thursday, November 19, The Digital Imaging Initiative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducted a workshop to introduce the AMICO database and demonstrate sample search strategies. Approximately twelve representatives from several departments attended, including faculty from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Krannert Art Museum, the College of Agriculture, Area Studies Libraries, the Art and Architecture Library, and the Curator of Slides. After a demonstration of search strategies for AMICO, we opened the floor for questions, several of which were discussed at length. Following is a list of the inquiries and suggestions those present made: 1. Can we find out more about the scope information the digital materials each museum contributed to AMICO cover and how those contributions relate to the rest of each museum's collections? 2. People have concerns about how long the images will be available, even though the contract focuses on long-term availability. 3. What about images that we download for classes? Can we keep them even if we decide not to renew our contract? 4. How often are new images added to the database? How will we be informed of these updates? 5. How likely is it that AMICO will make enhancements to the search engine in the future? For example, implement vocabulary support, implement content based searching (color, shape, texture). 6. Knowing the right terms to search in AMCIO is difficult; could each museum provide a list of keywords that describe the images they have contributed in the AMICO database? 7. The lack of name or term standards across the database makes it extremely challenging to execute comprehensive searches. What kinds of improvements are going to be made to AMICO to facilitate this? What kinds of metadata production standards are AMICO members able to adopt in order to make their metadata more suitable for public access? 8. We would like to request that certain materials in a museum's collection be digitized. How can we give AMICO museums this feedback? 9. How do AMICO museums want us to give them credit when we use their images on another controlled access website? 10. Can students keep AMICO images in their portfolios? If yes, for how long? 11. The search tip from the HELP menu for Advanced search using Creator and the term "hellenistic" does not work. However, Advanced search using Date and the term "hellenistic", etc. does work. 12/1/98 |