AMICO Annual Members Meeting 2001
Final ReportExecutive Summary
The Annual Members meeting is the working meeting of the Art Museum Image Consortium. AMICO staff and members address the issues raised over the past year, and plot an agenda for the coming year. The meeting began with a briefing by AMICO staff, summarizing progress since the last AMICO Members Meeting in June of 2000 highlighting accomplishments and reviewing issues would discussing further during the Members Meeting.
The bulk of the meeting was spend in break-out sessions of the four AMICO Working Committees:
On the final day, the members reconvened as a whole to receive the reports of the committees, confirm their decisions and review their actions agendas. Together we developed forward plans and schedules, and made decisions about future operations.
Highlights included:
- The announcement of additional Distributors of The AMICO Library
In addition to RLG, The AMICO Library will be available from H.W. Wilson, SCRAN, VTLS and through a joint venture with i4i in an XML-based environment that supports the development of teaching and learning documents. RLG will also shortly announce that they will be using Luna Imaging's Insight software as the interface to their delivery of The AMICO Library. All members who contribute to The AMICO Library have access to all Distributions.- A Special User Session
A special AMICO Library Users session featured presentations from Colleen Skidmore, a university-level educator from the University of Calgary, and Scott Howe, a high-school educator from Isidore Newman School in New Orleans. Kelly Richmond gave an update on the K-12 Testbed, Peter Walsh introduced his model assignments project, and Michel Vulpe gave a demonstration of the K-12 toolset that is currently being developed by i4i. Representatives from local universities and museums were invited, and included the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Queen's University, Concordia University, and the Canadian Heritage Information Network. Members agreed that direct content with Users of The AMICO Library was highly beneficial. The full papers from these presentations are available for review.- ARS Agreement
AMICO now has reached an agreement with ARS to distribute The AMICO Library world-wide, and to allow US-based members to post works in The AMICO Library on their web sites. The Rights Committee discussed the details and limitations of this agreement. All Members should bring this to the attention of their rights and reproductions coordinator.- AMICO's Schedule 2001-2001
AMICO Members amended the contribution schedule to provide AMICO staff with additional time to do trouble-shooting and quality assurance on contributions:
October 1, 2001 Preliminary lists of planned submissions, including core fields for these works, to AMICO March 1, 2002 FINAL SUBMISSIONS DUE July 1 2002 Release of the 2002 Edition The meeting began with a briefing by AMICO staff, summarizing progress on areas of AMICO's agenda since the last AMICO Members Meeting in June of 2000. This presentation highlighted accomplishments and reviewed issues that the group would be discussing during the Members Meeting. Several documents were distributed for general discussion.
- General Presentation Commentary
- General Presentation Slides (.PDF file)
2001/2002 Deadlines and Schedule
All Members reviewed the schedule and deadlines for the coming year.AMICO Members amended the contribution schedule to provide AMICO staff with additional time to do trouble-shooting and quality assurance on contributions: Final contributions are now due to AMICO on March 1, 2002.
Date Library Construction Meetings and Events 2001 July 2001-2002 Library release Aug CMS enhancements released K-12 Testbed training Sept Update media to distributors TMS Users/AMICO Meeting on East Coast Oct 1 Preliminary list of submissions due (core fields) Oct MCN Conference Executive Committee meeting Nov AASL Dec update media to distributors AAM Intellectual Property seminar 2002 Jan ARS List available in electronic form Feb Board Meeting in conjunction with the AAMD winter meeting.
AAMD updateMarch 1 All Contributions due to AMICO Mar Update media to distributors CAA , VRA, ARLIS, NAEA conferences April AMICO ships data to distributors Museums and the Web May AAM June Update media to distributors AMICO Annual Meeting - NYC AMICO Library Update Schedules
All Members were reminded of the schedules for the updating of The AMICO Library to Distributors.
- Updates to existing AMICO Library text records (catalog and metadata) are distributed weekly on Thursday.
- New media linked to existing catalog records (such as replacement images, missing images, and newly linked Antenna Audio files) are distributed quarterly, the end of March, June, September and December.
- New works are added to The AMICO Library annually, during the contribution cycle. Final new contributions are due to AMICO March 1, and are released by distributors on July 1.
Next Meeting
The New York-based AMICO members invited us to their city for our next annual meeting, to be held in June of 2002. Watch the AMICO Announcement list for the date.Thanks
All Members and Staff expressed their thanks to Delphine Bishop of the National Gallery of Canada for coordinating local arrangements.
The Executive Director expressed her thanks to the AMICO staff for their hard work in organizing the meeting, and to all in attendance for their enthusiastic contributions to AMICO's consortial activities.
Last modified on October 10, 2001
