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Article: Art Institute of Chicago invests in total digital chain; museum imaging department serves scholars, teachers, and students.
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- Digital Imaging Digest
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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One of the major world-class art museums, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., is also an educational center for its own college-level school, as well as a research resource for scholars, teachers, and students around the globe. In addition to copious in-house demands for high-quality imaging, there are extensive imaging requests from K-12 schools, universities, art museums, publishers, and the public.
Alan Newman, the Art Institute's executive director of Imaging, is committed to a "total digital chain," digitizing much of the department's workflow, including the Art Institute's existing files of photographic plates, film negatives, transparencies, ...