Timeline

1997 - 1998 Fiscal Year (July 1 - June 30)

1997
Date	Events	Organizational Tasks	Operational and Technical Tasks
August		- Invitation to join issued - Open dialog with GII re data enhancement
Sept. 22-23	AMICO Founding Meeting Art Institute of Chicago
Oct. 10		- All Members checks & letters of commitment due to AAMD by 5:00 pm EDT _ Representatives on Working Committees named	- Founding members provide 10 sample records (both text and image) - Content for 1998 University Testbed Library described by period/place
Oct. 13 7:00-9:00 pm	Exec. Ctte mtg. NYC, @ AAMD Trustees Mtg.	- Governance issues decided
Oct. 14	AAMD Trustees Mtg. NYC	- AMICO established within AAMD Educational Foundation - Joint press release announcing members
Oct. 15 3:00-6:00 pm	Users Committee Mtg. St. Louis @ MCN		- Discuss University Testbed and Call for Participation
Oct. 18 8:30-10:30	Intellectual Property Breakfast Forum @ MCN www.mcn.edu Nancy Allen is AMICO rep.
Oct. 18 10:30-12:00	Session on AMICO St. Louis, @ MCN Max, Jennifer, David
Oct. 18 1:30-6:30	Technical Ctte. Mtg. St. Louis @ MCN		- Begin analysis of members' data - Discuss AMICO data, Distributor and Enhancer Requirements
Oct.		- Begin legal review of agreements - Open discussion with artists/artists' rights societies
Oct.		- Open discussion with Distributors	- Develop data distribution requirements
Oct.			- Develop data enhancement requirements
Oct. 26 9:00-12:30 Elk Lake Room	Users Committee Meeting Minneapolis @ CNI		- Introduce Testbed to potential participants
Oct. 27	Session on AMICO Minneapolis @ CNI www.cni.org Jennifer, David
Nov.		- Meetings with Foundations - Proposals to Federal funding sources	- Meetings with potential Distributors - Meetings regarding Data Enhancement
Nov.		- Announce Test-bed	- Refine Test-bed Objectives
Nov.		- Arrangements with Vocabulary and Authority providers	- Final Data requirements - Final data enhancement specification
Dec.		- Contract Distributor[s]	- Final distributor specification
Dec.		- Solicit distributor product definitions	- Begin test of output requirements
Dec.		- Acquire/contract AMICO catalog server	- System procurement and implementation

1998
Date	Events		Organizational Tasks		Operational and Technical Tasks
Jan. 27 2:00 - 4:00	Executive Committee Mtg. LA w/ AAMD @ Miramar Sheraton Hotel
Jan. 27 4:30 - 7:00	Full Board Mtg. LA w/ AAMD @ Miramar Sheraton Hotel		- Elect Exec. and act on all Business
Jan.31	Deliver a list of all the works that you are going to contribute to The AMICO Library, comprised of Artist, Title, Date, and creation place [or artists birth/death/active place] in tab delimited or spreadsheet form. Send this by email as an attachment to jtrant@archimuse.com
Feb.			- Select university test users		- Conduct Focus Groups with users
Feb.			- Finalize distributor product definitions		- Review distributor's product specifications
Feb.6	Deliver 10 records that conform to the specification for testing and validation. Instructions for delivery of records will be posted by the end of January 1998.
Feb. 27 7:30 - 9:00 Metro Toronto Convention Centre	Presentation on AMICO Toronto @CAA Susan Chun, Stephanie A. Stebich, Peter Walsh
Feb. 27 3:00 - 3:45	Presentation on AMICO to ARLIS ONT/CVRC Toronto @ AGO Jennifer or David
Feb.27	Deliver 100 records that conform to the specification [unless this is more than your total contribution, in which case, you are asked to deliver more than 10 and less than the total]
February [25-28]	Users Ctte Toronto @ CAA				- Focus Group of end users
March [3-7]	Presentation on AMICO Philadelphia @ VRA/ARLIS Nancy Allen
March 7 8:30 - 10:00	The Art Museum Image Consortium [AMICO]: Educational access to museum multimedia documentation Visual Resources Association, Philadelphia, PA
March					- All member data to AMICO - Data to Enhancer
Mar.			- Accept distributor product definitions		- Final output requirements established with Distributors
Mar.	Users Ctte. Washington DC @ CNI				-Testbed Participants Announced
Mar.			- Begin discussions regarding Public Library and K-12 uses
March 31	Your total contribution is due to AMICO for validation.
April			- Contract test-bed participants		- Deliver full list of test-bed contents w/datatypes to Testbed participants
April			- Data enhancement and formatting to output requirements
April 15	Research on The AMICO Library: Issues in providing access to a large collection of digital images David Bearman & Jennifer Trant, Chairs Washington DC@CNI (http://www.cni.org)
	David Millman (Columbia) and Jerome Yavarkovsky (Boston College) University testbed participants discussing plans for 1998/99 AMICO research Washington DC@CNI Terry Noreault, Director of Research and Special Projects (OCLC R&D) presents results from research they are doing in mapping AMICO metadata to Dublin Core, expressed in XMS/RDF.
April 31	Data Delivered to RLG for distribution in University Testbed

April 31		Data for University Testbed Delivered to RLG
May 1			- University Testbed website launched
May 15	- University Testbed License agreements and invoices sent
May [14-18]	- Michael Shapiro (General Counsel, AMICO) is chairing a session, on Intellectual Property Los Angeles, @ AAM
May				- Membership Agreement Circulated for Comment		- Enhanced data returned to museums for verification
				- Invitations issued for new members
				- AMICO incorporation papers circulated for signature and filed
June 1	- Final delivery of corrected data to RLG
June 4	Executive Committee 7-9 am Breakfast Meeting Board Lunch Meeting 12-2 pm Worcester, MA w/ AAMD
June				- University Licenses circulated for signature and invoices send		- Vocabulary matching experiments
				- Membership agreement and Museum License circulated for signature
June				- NSF planning meeting for DL2 Grant Application
June 30				-University Testbed License agreements and invoices due
				- Signed Membership Agreement and Museum License due

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