--- Begin Forwarded Message --- 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 <[log in to unmask]> writes: > --- Begin Forwarded Message --- > 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 > --- End Forwarded Message --- > --- End Forwarded Message ---