Message-Id: <mailto:199412021330.HAA28978@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 13:25:29 GMT From: International Visual Arts Information Network <mailto:ivainjr@GN.APC.ORG> Subject: ITEM To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
You might be interested to know that a new issue of ITEM [Image Technology in Museums and art galleries] by IVAIN in association with CIDOC [Documentation Committee of ICOM], is now available.The following has been posted to more than one listserve, as it will be of interest to a relatively wide range of people. We apologise if you receive it more than once.
We will be pleased to let you have any further information you might need.
Jeremy Rees Director, IVAIN e-mail mailto:ivainjr@gn.apc.org
ITEM Image Technology in Museums and art galleries
published by International Visual Arts Information Network [IVAIN] [a not-for-profit organisation] in association with International Documentation Committee [CIDOC] International Council of Museums
ITEM, which has subscribers in twenty countries worldwide, provides the most comprehensive source of current information about interactive multimedia projects implemented by or for museums and art galleries. ITEM focuses on visual arts and design, offering information about interactive multimedia projects, the organisations involved, the technologies in use and the commercial production companies working with museums and galleries. ITEM also includes records of innovative projects in ethnography, archaeology, and other areas not directly related to the visual arts.
ITEM gives wider circulation and easier access to such information, and so helps encourage the use and development of interactive multimedia technologies in museums and art galleries, widening the access to cultural information.
ITEM is a twice yearly publication, with the May edition focusing on published titles, and the November edition featuring new projects. The current edition, ITEM 8, focuses on full records of 56 realised projects and projects under development, with an index listing of a total of 127 projects which have featured in ITEM since 1990. A second section gives 41 full records of new and updated published titles since the last issue of ITEM, and an index of 103 published titles featured since the birth of ITEM. ITEM 8 also includes a technical glossary relating to multimedia.
This issue of ITEM includes an article by Joel Poix on the development of multimedia policy and the concerns of the Reunion des Musees Nationaux in France, with regard to the future of art documentation and computerization, and the concept of a distributed collaborative network potentially involving the Getty Art History Information project, CIDOC, IVAIN and many other organisations.
The eighth issue of ITEM is available now, either as hardcopy, or on Mac or PC floppy disc [which needs Omnis 5 or Omnis 5 run- time]. The ITEM subscription is 45 pounds UK for non-profit organisations, 30 pounds UK for CIDOC members, 95 pounds UK for commercial organisations. For a subscription application form, please contact IVAIN, at the address below.
We are currently seeking new information on recent interactive multimedia projects or published titles related to museums and art galleries, for entry into ITEM 9, due to be published in May 1995. If you are working on any relevant projects, we would be grateful if you would contact us for a data entry sheet.
A leaflet about ITEM is available from:
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