Corbis and Royal Ontario Museum announce partnership; Canada's largest museum to join Corbis archive.BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1995--Corbis Corp. announced today an agreement with the Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum, commonly known as the ROM (rhyming with Tom), is a major museum for world culture and natural history in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (ROM), in Toronto, to bring images of selected works from the museum's extensive collections into the Corbis digital archive. This nonexclusive agreement will allow Corbis to license these images to publishers of traditional and new media, from books and magazines to CD-ROMs and online products. The images will also be available for use in consumer products Corbis creates. "This partnership with Corbis adds dimension to our programs, which use new techniques to enhance access to our collections, and will also provide expanded revenue streams," said Dr. John Dr. John (also Dr. John Creaux) is the stage name of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (born November 21, 1940), a colorful pianist, singer, and songwriter, whose music spans, and often combines, blues, boogie woogie, and rock and roll. McNeill, director of the Royal Ontario Museum. "It will help us to continue our leadership role in bringing our collections into the digital future." The Royal Ontario Museum is widely respected for its innovative use of technology to enhance the availability of its collections and interpret them for a wide audience. The ROM, founded in 1912, is Canada's largest museum, with more than six million objects in its collections. It is also one of the world's few multidisciplinary museums, with exhibits ranging in scope from zoology zoology, branch of biology concerned with the study of animal life. From earliest times animals have been vitally important to man; cave art demonstrates the practical and mystical significance animals held for prehistoric man. to art to archaeology. Among the museum's highlights are the Ancient Egypt  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. Gallery, the popular Dinosaur Gallery
and the Chinese collection, which ranks among the top 10 in the world.
"The ROM has collections of great depth and range as well as a very progressive program of applying new technologies to better serve its audiences," said Doug Rowan, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Corbis. "This alliance represents an important addition to the Corbis archive and, by participating in this project, ROM will extend its outreach to Canadian, North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. and global audiences." Images are added to the archive using high-quality scanning and imaging technologies, and are made available to publishers of print and electronic media through Corbis Media, the licensing arm of Corbis. These images will also be available for use in future multimedia titles that Corbis Publishing, the consumer products group at Corbis, creates and publishes. Corbis is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. founded in 1989 by Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. to create new uses and markets for high-quality digital content. The company is building a unique and comprehensive archive of high-quality digital imagery and creative materials. The subject matter in the archive is very broad, encompassing science and technology, the fine arts, history, people and cultures, natural history and many other areas. The three operating divisions of the company are Corbis Media, Bettmann and Corbis Publishing. Corbis Media licenses content from the digital archive to creative professionals. Corbis Publishing produces and publishes innovative, high-quality CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). and interactive online products for consumers. Bettmann licenses material from its more than 16 million-image collection to the publishing community. For more information about the Corbis archive and its business divisions, visit the Corbis Web site at http://www.corbis.com. Corbis, Corbis Media and Corbis Publishing are based in Bellevue, Wash. Bettmann operates from offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Corbis U.K. Ltd. operates on a pan-European basis from its offices in London. CONTACT: Corbis Corp. Laurie McEachron, 206/649-3363 E-mail: lauriemc@corbis.com or Waggener Edstrom Angela Newlove, 206/637-9097 E-mail: angelan@wagged.com NOTE TO EDITORS: In the Internet/email addresses noted in this news release, there is an "at" symbol between lauriemc and corbis.com and between angelan and wagged.com. |
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