The George Eastman House (GEH) and the International Center of Photography (ICP) are teaming up to create a vast digital archive.The George George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait). Eastman House (GEH GEH George Eastman House GEH Google Earth Hacks (website) GEH Generalized Effective Hamiltonian ) and the International Center of Photography (ICP (1) (Internet Cache Protocol) A protocol used by one proxy server to query another for a cached Web page without having to go to the Internet to retrieve it. See CARP and proxy server. ) are teaming up to create a vast digital archive. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the project's prototype web site (www.photomuse.org) the collaboration's goal is to provide an on-line resource with access to almost 200,000 images from the organization's archives. It is estimated that the ambitious project, expected to be completed in the Fall of 2006, will cost $800,000. Students, scholars and enthusiasts will be encouraged to take advantage of this freely accessible, authoritative tool. A secondary role of the web site will be to feature current exhibitions at GEH and ICP in an attempt to bring the museum experience to the internet. |
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