[Yulpub] Fwd: MAJOR ART MUSEUMS TO SHARE DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTIONS THROUGH ARTSTOR

[Suzanne Lorimer]

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 From the ARTstor list:


>>January 10, 2005. ARTstor (<http://www.artstor.org/>www.artstor.org) 
>>announced today that fifteen art museums have committed to share digital 
>>image collections and associated data through ARTstor. Images and data 
>>from these collections will enhance ARTstor's ability to provide 
>>broad-based access to art images for educational and scholarly use in 
>>museums, colleges and universities, and the K-12 sector.
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>>The contributing museums include:
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>>The Art Institute of Chicago (<http://www.artic.edu/>www.artic.edu)
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>>The Cleveland Museum of Art 
>>(<http://www.clevelandart.org/>www.clevelandart.org)
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>>Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College 
>>(<http://www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu/>www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu)
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>>Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (<http://www.thinker.org/>www.thinker.org)
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>>Harvard University Art Museums 
>>(<http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/>www.artmuseums.harvard.edu)
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>>The Frick Collection (<http://www.frick.org/>www.frick.org)
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>>Kimbell Art Museum (<http://www.kimbellart.org/>www.kimbellart.org)
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>>Los Angeles County Museum of Art 
>><http://www.lacma.org/>(<http://www.lacma.org%5d/>www.lacma.org)
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>>The Metropolitan Museum of Art (<http://www.metmuseum.org/>www.metmuseum.org)
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>>Philadelphia Museum of Art (<http://www.philamuseum.org/>www.philamuseum.org)
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>>Smithsonian American Art Museum 
>>(<http://www.americanart.si.edu/>www.americanart.si.edu)
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>>Victoria and Albert Museum (<http://www.vam.ac.uk/>www.vam.ac.uk)
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>>The Walters Art Museum (<http://www.thewalters.org/>www.thewalters.org)
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>>Williams College Museum of Art 
>><http://www.wcma.org/>(<http://www.wcma.org/>www.wcma.org)
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>>Yale University Art Gallery 
>>(<http://www.artgallery.yale.edu/>www.artgallery.yale.edu)
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>>Many of these museums have been participants in AMICO (Art Museum Image 
>>Consortium), the pioneering digital initiative originally created by the 
>>Association of Art Museum Directors. AMICO announced recently that it 
>>would cease operations in July 2005, and expressed its intention to work 
>>with ARTstor during a transition period to encourage member museums to 
>>continue their efforts in collaboration with ARTstor. In addition to 
>>these institutions that had previously contributed to AMICO, other major 
>>art museums that will make parts of their image collections available 
>>through ARTstor include the Kimbell Art Museum, Harvard University Art 
>>Museums, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Williams College Museum of Art.
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>>These art museum partnerships will result in the sharing through ARTstor 
>>of tens of thousands of very high quality digital images - images 
>>carefully selected by museum curators representing both well-known 
>>masterpieces and thousands of works of art that deserve to be better 
>>known. Many of the hidden treasures of major art museums - such as the 
>>textiles, photographs, and works on paper that are typically too fragile 
>>to be on regular public view - will be available for study by scholars, 
>>curators, and students at the more than 300 colleges, universities, art 
>>schools and museums now participating in ARTstor. James Shulman, 
>>Executive Director of ARTstor, noted that, "We are delighted that ARTstor 
>>can serve as an avenue through which these extraordinary institutions can 
>>make images of their works available for non-profit educational use. In 
>>addition to adding many thousands of images of the highest quality and 
>>museum-authorized cataloging data to the ARTstor Digital Library, these 
>>collaborations represent exciting steps in our effort to be a part of a 
>>community-wide effort. We look forward to continuing partnerships with 
>>colleagues and friends at these and other museums."
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>Suzanne Lorimer
>Coordinator of Reference Services
>Research Services and Collections Department
>226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
>P.O. Box 208240
>130 Wall Street
>New Haven, CT  06520-8240
>(phone) 203-432-8371  (fax) 203-432-8527