Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 565.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux@elda.fr> (36)
Subject: ELRA News
[2] From: "J. Trant - Executive Director" (145)
<jtrant@AMICO.ORG>
Subject: New AMICO Distributor: Cartography Associates
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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:01:00 +0100
From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux@elda.fr>
Subject: ELRA News
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ELRA - European Language Resources Association
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We are pleased to announce two new resources
available in our catalogue of language resources:
S0121 Turkish Speech Database
S0122 German SpeechDat-Car Database
A short description of these two new resources is given below.
Please visit the online catalogue to get further details:
http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html
S0121 Turkish Continuous and Isolated Word Speech Database
The Turkish speech database contains 14 hours of read speech
(1618 words) from 43 Turkish speakers (adults over 18; 22 males,
21 females).
S0122 German SpeechDat-Car Database
The German SpeechDat-Car database comprises 338 German
speakers (159 females, 179 males) recorded over the mobile telephone
network. Each speaker uttered over 120 read and spontaneous items.
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The Erlanger Bahnansage - ERBA - database, reference S0013,
is now available for commercial use:
Price for members: 6263.29 Euro
(Reminder - price for research use: 511.29 Euro)
Price for non-members: 6774.58 Euro
(Rminder - price for research use: 1022.58 Euro)
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For further information, please contact:
ELRA/ELDA
55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin
F-75013 Paris, France
Tel: +33 01 43 13 33 33
Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30
E-mail mapelli@elda.fr
or visit our Web site:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
or http://www.elda.fr
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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:01:57 +0100
From: "J. Trant - Executive Director" <jtrant@AMICO.ORG>
Subject: New AMICO Distributor: Cartography Associates
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: info@amico.org
Web: http://www.amico.org
AMICO Members
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Institute of Chicago
Asia Society Gallery
Center for Creative Photography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
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 Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Muse d'art contemporain de Montral
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
-- ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia ________
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