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2008 Winter Program
Date and Time: Tuesday, February 5th, 2008, 3:30-5:00 p.m. (The Image Library of the Met will sponsor a coffee/tea reception from 3:30 p.m. The presentation will start at 4:00 p.m.)
Venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Douglas Dillon Boardroom (RSVP details and directions to the Boardroom will be given at a later date.)
VRA/NY and the Image Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are co-organizing a winter program on Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) service. The IAP project is a joint initiative between ARTstor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for allowing scholars to download and use, free-of-charge, high-resolution digital images for scholarly publications. Initially, more than 1,700 images representative of the broad range of the Metropolitan Museum's encyclopedic collection will be available through the ARTstor interface to users at all ARTstor participating institutions. With time we hope to grow the IAP service to include images from multiple sources.
Nancy Allen, Director of Museum Relations of ARTstor, has accepted our invitation to give a presentation on the IAP project. She will give an overview of the scope and nature of the IAP project and a live demo of the IAP interface. We are planning to share with you some of the usage statistics we have been gathering since its inception in March 2007.
Please RSVP to Billy Kwan at Billy.Kwan@metmuseum.org.
On February 5th you can pick up a button at the Group Registration Desk in the Great Hall; they will direct you to the Douglas Dillon Board Room, which is on the fourth floor and reached via the elevators towards the back of the Museum. Please plan on a few minutes’ travel time within the building.
