Message-Id: <mailto:199506190947.CAA37120@listserv.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 10:45:55 BST From: Jeremy Rees <mailto:ivainjr@GN.APC.ORG> Subject: ITEM 9 now published To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
You might be interested to know that issue 9 of ITEM [Image Technology in Museums and art galleries] database published by IVAIN in association with CIDOC [Documentation Committee of ICOM], is now available. Current subscribers will receive their copies during the next two weeks. 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 send you have a subscription leaflet and any further information you might need. An especially advantageous subscription rate is available to CIDOC and ICOM members. Jeremy Rees Director, IVAIN e-mail mailto:ivainjr@gn.apc.org ************************************** ITEM 9 Image Technology in Museums and art galleries ************************************** published twice yearly (May and November) by International Visual Arts Information Network [IVAIN] [a not-for-profit organisation] in association with International Documentation Committee [CIDOC] International Council of Museums ITEM 9 focuses on published titles, includes 105 published titles from 14 countries world-wide. It also complements ITEM 8 (which focused on non-published projects) and includes 38 updated and new non-published projects. In total, the four ITEM indexes cover 289 projects and published titles from 22 countries. ITEM, which has subscribers in twenty countries world-wide, provides the most extensive source of regularly updated information about interactive multimedia projects implemented by or for museums and art galleries, and their publics 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. A Pilot text and image version of ITEM on WWW is currently under development, in collaboration with Eureka Audiovisual, Brussels. Later this year, this will be offered to Subscribers as an alternative or an add-on to the hard copy version. This issue of ITEM also features a brief introduction to the NISAH Project [Networked Information Sources in the Arts and Humanities] sponsored by GETTY AHIP; a listing of key WWW sites related to Art Museums and the Visual Arts; a selected inventory of software packages relevant to multimedia production in Museums, compiled under the auspices of RKD, The Hague. We are currently seeking new information on recent interactive multimedia projects or published titles related to museums and art galleries, for entry into ITEM 10 due to be published in November 1995. **If you are working on any relevant projects or know of projects that you feel should be considered for possible inclusion in the next issue of ITEM, please contact us for a data entry sheet. Some of these would also be featured on the Whats New page of the ITEM WWW Site later this year. A leaflet about ITEM and the data entry sheet are available from: ***************************************************** IVAIN at Suffolk College, Rope Walk, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 1LT, Great Britain Telephone +44 1473 296672 Fax +44 1473 230054 e-mail mailto:ivainjr@gn.apc.org *****************************************************