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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:09:03 -0700
From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: FYI: New AMICO Distributor: Cartography Associates (David
Rumsey ) <fwd>
Sender: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
Hi Beverly:
Thanks for sending this to MapHist & MAPS-L (and do send similar
things, if you come across them). It helps Rumsey Collection workers
find out what goes on here!
Phil
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 16:24:39 -0400 Johnnie Sutherland
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> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:10:01 -0400
> From: Beverly J Presley <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: FYI: New AMICO Distributor: Cartography Associates (David
> Rumsey )
> Sender: Beverly J Presley <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Fellow Cartophiles,
> I recently learned of this development and thought might be of
> interest to
> some of you. If it is old news, my apologies.
>
> Beverly Presley
> Map Library
> Clark University
> 950 Main Street
> Worcester, MA 01610-1477
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Art Museum Image Consortium
> www.amico.org
> Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia
>
> AMICO Press Release
> March 25, 2002
>
> Greater Delivery Choices for The AMICO Library (TM): David Rumsey
> and AMICO
> Sign Distribution Agreement
> Rumsey chooses Luna's Insight software as distribution environment
>
> AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA - The Art Museum Image
> Consortium
> (AMICO) and Cartography Associates, owned by David Rumsey, have
> signed a distribution agreement to deliver The AMICO Library (TM)
> 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."
>
> About David Rumsey and Cartography Associates
> 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.
>
> About AMICO
>
> The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent
> non-profit (501c3) corporation. Founded in 1997, the Consortium
> today is made up of over 35 major museums in the United States,
> Canada, and the United Kingdom. It's an innovative collaboration -
> not seen before in museums - that shares, shapes, and standardizes
> digital information regarding museum collections and enables its
> educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a
> collection of art.
>
> Together AMICO Members build The AMICO LibraryTM 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.
>
> Contact Information
>
> Jennifer Trant
> Executive Director
> Art Museum Image Consortium
> Phone: +1 412 422 8533
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Web: http://www.amico.org
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