Message-ID: <mailto:sf1a80df.051@Getty.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 14:20:36 -0800 From: James Bower <mailto:JBower@GETTY.EDU> Subject: Getty Art History Information Program web site To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
The following message is being cross-posted to AAT-L, AIA-L, ARCHIVES, ARLIS-L, CAAH, CIDOC-L, IMAGELIB, MUSEUM-L, and VRA-L; apologies in advance for any redundant postings that may result.The Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP) is pleased to announce the debut of its home page on the World Wide Web (URL http://www.ahip.getty.edu/ahip/home.html). AHIP, an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, works to enrich the content of computer networks by encouraging the collaborative building of a cultural information infrastructure. AHIP has established a web site as part of its effort to show how massive bodies of cultural information from heterogeneous sources can be gathered, digitized, stored, processed, and distributed across national and international boundaries.
The AHIP web site offers detailed information about AHIP's programs, projects, and publications, including descriptions of AHIP's recent initiatives: the Imaging Initiative, the Networked Access Project, the initiative to develop International Documentation Standards for the Protection of Cultural Objects, and Categories for the Description of Works of Art.
As part of a fifth initiative, called "Intellectual Integration," the AHIP web site tests the concept of integrating disparate information sources into a "virtual database" by allowing simultaneous access to large datasets -- nearly 300,000 total records -- from the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and the International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA). These data are being made available free of charge for a limited time as part of AHIP's research into database retrieval. The web site will eventually permit searchers to use AHIP controlled vocabularies (the Union List of Artist Names and the Art & Architecture Thesaurus) as tools for refining searches within and among these art-historical databases, as part of AHIP's efforts to explore enhanced access by means of controlled vocabulary and structured information protocols.
For further information about the AHIP World Wide Web site, or to respond with comments on our home page, please send e-mail to mailto:ahip@getty.edu.
James M. Bower Project Manager, Director's Office Getty Art History Information Program