Moving Museum Resources Online—REACH, VISION,
& AMICO
In the 1990s RLG's Museum Resources project comprised
several initiatives to integrate discovery and delivery of visual and
descriptive information:
- The 1997-98 REACH
project
(Record Export for Art and Cultural Heritage). Initiated by RLG and the
Getty Information Institute, this effort enlisted several museums and
museum system vendors in addressing how to make disparate data for
museum objects created in various systems searchable in an integrated
resource environment.
- The 1998 RLG-Visual Resources Association VISION
project.
RLG enabled the first implementation of the VRA Data Standards
Committee's "Core Categories for Visual Resources, Version 2.0." VRA
members cataloged photographs and slides of works of art, architecture,
and other cultural heritage artifacts and were able to assess their
integrated records and the outcome of their efforts, leading to the
next version of the standard.
- The AMICO
Library™
from RLG, a collection of art images and accompanying descriptions
provided by the Art Museum Image Consortium, launched in 1998
through a database and interface created by RLG.
- An
exploration of the need for and means of
assembling a union resource of records with digital
surrogates—which led to the Cultural
Materials Initiative to
improve access to cultural materials and the RLG Cultural Materials
database, launched in 2002.
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