Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 92.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 12:09:01 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Reuters & Art Museum Network's Arts News Service
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN REUTERS AND ART MUSEUM NETWORK
TO CREATE MAJOR FINE ARTS NEWS SERVICE
http://www.artmuseumnetwork.org
A little late, but I thought readers might be interested in this alliance
between the Art Museum Network and Reuters to provide two forms of arts
news service via the Art Museum Network.
David Green
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>New York, April 23, 2001-The Art Museum Network (AMN) and Reuters, the
>global information, news and technology group, announced today the launch
>of a project to establish an online fine arts information report in
>conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art, which hosts the AMN
>website. The joint project will provide access for journalists, other
>Reuters subscribers and, this fall, the entire online public to the latest
>in art news.
>
>At the heart of the project will be the development by Reuters of the AMN
>Fine Arts Report-an online report that will provide information on
>exhibitions and special events at fine arts museums around the world. This
>report will be marketed to any online publisher interested in providing
>readers with information about fine arts exhibits and events.
>
>Katharine Lee Reid, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and President
>of the Association of Art Museum Directors, noted: "The efforts of the Art
>Museum Network-from providing public access to tens of thousands of images
>of works of art to jointly indexing the exhibition calendars of many of
>the world's leading art museums-will now be expanded to include news. The
>Cleveland Museum of Art, like dozens of other art museums supporting
>AMN.org, is excited about what this can mean to our institution in getting
>the word out about how we serve our audiences and the collections they
>come to see."
>
>Whitney Director Maxwell L. Anderson commented, "The recent Forbes 'Best
>of the Web' story that singled out artmuseumnetwork.org as the best
>solution for exploring art museums online has increased traffic, and this
>partnership will multiply viewer traffic exponentially. We are delighted
>that Reuters has agreed to open this service to all 200 museums in the Art
>Museum Network. It's an extraordinary opportunity for the public to become
>further engaged in what is happening at art museums around the world."
>
>Tom Glocer, CEO-designate of Reuters, said: "Reuters news and information
>is used by over 70 million people through Reuters' own services to the
>financial markets as well as our online reports available over 1,400
>websites. We are very pleased to make the AMN Fine Arts Report available
>as a complement to our financial, general and specialty news services."
>
>The agreement will unfold in two phases. In Phase One, each museum
>belonging to AMN will provide press releases to Reuters, which will then
>redistribute the releases to online clients. For further information on
>each press release, the user will be able to go directly to
>http://www.artmuseumnetwork.org. In Phase Two, in the fall of 2001, the
>Art Museum Network will create a database of all press releases for use by
>the online public. The database will be searchable by topic, institution,
>city, date, etc.
>
>The Art Museum Network was founded in 1996 as the Internet/broadcast arm
>of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the oldest and most
>respected professional museum association in the world. Currently hosted
>by the Whitney Museum of American Art, AMN is the official website of a
>consortium of over 200 of the world's leading art museums, including The
>Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum. AMN, a not-for-profit
>effort, links content from the AAMD's 170 North American members and 40 or
>so of the largest museums in Europe and Asia, stretching from the
>Hermitage to the Louvre, and from the Berlin Museum to the Prado. Each
>museum is directly connected to AMN and is able to furnish up-to-date
>exhibition information on a daily basis, which is automatically made
>available on the Internet from AMN.
>
>Reuters supplies the global financial markets and news media with a wide
>range of information products, including real-time financial data,
>collective investment data, news, graphics, news video and news pictures.
>In addition to supplying the financial markets, about 73 million unique
>visitors per month have access to Reuters content on some 1,400 Internet
>websites. Reuters is the world's largest international text and television
>news agency, with 2,157 journalists, photographers and camera operators in
>190 bureaus, serving 151 countries. In 2000 the Group had revenues of
>3.59 billion ($5.4 billion) and on December 31, 2000, the Group employed
>18,082 staff in 204 cities in 100 countries.
>
>
>webmaster@artmuseumnetwork.org
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