The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and Cartography
Associates, owned by David Rumsey, have signed a distribution agreement
to deliver The AMICO Library for higher education and scholarly
use. Cartography Associates, a provider of online digital images of
rare 18th and 19th century North and South American
cartographic history materials, is the latest in a series of distributors,
announced in recent months, making The AMICO Library available at reasonable
rates with different functional and interface flexibility. Our objective
is to make The AMICO Library widely available for a variety of user
types, from small art institutes to large public library systems, K-12
schools to state universities, and to provide users with a choice of
service providers so they may select one that particularly suits their
unique needs.
For its presentation of The AMICO Library, Cartography
Associates has chosen Luna Imaging's Insight software as the delivery
platform. The collection will be available for the Fall 2002 term to
educators and scholars within institutions, as well as for individual
unaffiliated scholars, for an annual subscription rate. Luna Imaging
will provide hosting and customer services for Cartography Associates.
As AMICO's Executive Director, Jennifer Trant, notes,
"Cartography Associates is a wonderful addition to our growing group
of distributors. David Rumsey's existing experience with online image
distribution and his alliance with Luna Imaging are of great interest
to AMICO. We hope these connections will help build links to and added
functionality for a much broader range of scholarly users of The AMICO
Library in communities beyond those we currently serve. David Rumsey's
vision coordinates well with AMICO's desire to widen and deepen educational
use of museum collections through network technologies."
The addition of The AMICO Library as the second collection
of Cartography Associates supports the vision of David Rumsey to provide
a broad range of cultural materials to both educators and scholars and
the ability to integrate cultural materials from several disciplines
in ways never before achieved for scholarly exploration at the highest
level of quality possible using the Internet.
"I am pleased to be able to bring this important collection
from major museums together with powerful software that I believe in,"
Rumsey says. "I want to make the availability of The AMICO Library as
affordable and as accessible to as many people as possible. My relationship
with Luna Imaging will allow us to serve customers by offering an exciting
array of software tools for accessing and viewing this outstanding collection
of art images."
Cartography Associates provides presentation of historical
maps and other culturally significant materials for research and education
using the Internet. Cartography Associates was founded by map collector
David Rumsey in 1996 to provide online distribution of digital images
from his private collection of rare 18th and 19th century North and
South American maps. The David Rumsey Map Collection, one of the largest
private map collections in the United States, numbers over 150,000 maps
and includes rare atlases, charts, globes, wall maps and related items.
The online collection, currently numbering over 6,500 maps, is a growing
cross section of the physical collection and is highly regarded by researchers
and the public alike, as evidenced by the thousands of Web site visitors
each day to www.davidrumsey.com.
Rumsey's site has been featured in Wired Magazine, USA Today, and TechTV
and has received numerous Web awards, including Yahoo Pick of the Week,
and Best of the Net from About.com
For more information regarding the availability of The
AMICO Library from Cartography Associates, contact Jennifer Zabriskie
at 310 274 8787, ext. 121.
Together AMICO Members build The AMICO Library
a compilation of multimedia documentation of works in their collections.
The 2002 edition of The AMICO Library documents approximately 100,000
different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary
installations; new works are added annually. More than simply an image
database, AMICO Library works are fully documented and may include curatorial
text, detailed provenance information, multiple views, and other related
multimedia. Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it combines
the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and
academic weight of traditional library reference sources.
The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to
licensed subscribers such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools,
and museums. Over 3 million users on four continents include faculty,
students, teachers, staff, researchers, and public library patrons.
Educational subscribers receive access to The AMICO Library through
one of our Distributors. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides
rights to use works for a broad range of educational purposes. Potential
subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library, request
a free trial from our Distributors, and get further information at http://www.amico.org.
Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium
Phone: +1 412 422 8533
Email: info@amico.org
Web:http://www.amico.org
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Asia Society Gallery
- Center for Creative Photography
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dallas Museum of Art
- Davis Museum & Cultural
Center, Wellesley College
- Denver Art Museum
- The Detroit Institute of Arts
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- The Frick Collection and Art
Reference Library
- George Eastman House
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- The Library of Congress
- Los Angeles County Museum of
Art
- Louisiana State MuseumThe Metropolitan
Museum of Art
- The Minneapolis Institute of
Arts
- The Montreal Museum of Fine
Arts
- Musée d'art contemporain
de Montréal
- Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- National Gallery of Canada
- National Museums of Scotland
- The Newark Museum
- Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Terra Museum of American Art
- Victoria & Albert Museum
- Walker Art Center
- The Walters Art Museum
- Whitney Museum of American Art