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The Getty AHIP imaging initiative: A status report

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Reference

  1. Ben Davis, “The Gallery and the Machine,”Scientific American (May 1995).

  2. A detailed report of the discussions at this meeting, entitled “Initiative on Electronic Imaging & Information Standards, Meeting Report, March 3–4, 1994” is available from the Getty Art History Information Program. Archives and Museum Informatics

  3. Muse Educational Media,Sample CD-ROM Licensing Agreements for Museums (1995). Available from Muse Educational Media, 1 East 53rd Street, 10th floor, New York, NY 10022-4201.

  4. See, for example, Ester Dyson, “Intellectual Value,ldWired (July 1995): 137–141,182–4.

  5. Background information on the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project is available by ftp from the Getty Art History Information Program: ftp to ftp.ahip.getty.edu/pub/mesl, log in as “anonymous” with your email address as the password. A profile of the project can be found in the publication of the Museum Computer Network: J. Trant, “The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project,”Spectra (Spring 1995).

  6. Two full participants’ meetings have taken place to date. Reports are available on the AHIP ftp site.

  7. The MESL Management Committee is comprised of: Maxwell Anderson, Director, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Chair of the Information Technology Committee of the Association of Art Museum Directors; David Bearman, President, Archives and Museums Informatics; Howard Besser, Visiting Professor, University of Michigan; and Clifford Lynch, Office of the President, University of California. The Project Executive is Jennifer Trant, Manager Imaging Initiative, Getty Art History Information Program. Patti McClung works with MESL as a independent consultant.

  8. Further information about the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project can be found through the Getty Art History Information Program’s World Wide Web site (http://www.ahip.getty.edu/home.html).

  9. Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant,Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database (Getty Art History Information Program, 1995).

  10. The framework presented here draws on that presented by Costis Dallas, Director of the Foundation for the Hellenic World, at the meeting of the International Council of Museums, International Committee on Documentation, Stavanger, Norway, July 4,1995.

  11. J. Trant and H. Besser, “Describing Image Files: The Need for a Technical Standard,” Coalition for Networked Information, Fall Meeting, Orlando, Florida. November 30.1994.

  12. Anne R. Kenney and Stephen Chapman,Tutorial: Digital Resolution Requirements for Replacing Text-Based Material: Methods for Benchmarking Image Quality (Commission on Preservation and Access, April 1995).

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Trant, J. The Getty AHIP imaging initiative: A status report. Arch Museum Inf 9, 262–278 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02770468

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