Getty information institute

The genesis of the Getty Information Institute (GII) of the J. Paul Getty Trust, originally known as the Art History Information Program (AHIP), dates to 1981, when the Getty began funding work on a bibliographic index, the International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA). Further activities undertaken by the Trust that led to AHIP's formal creation in 1983 were the creation of a number of vocabulary programs, including the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, and the management of a number of databases, including the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. AHIP's mission was to catalog bodies of art historical information and make that information available electronically to scholars, museum managers and art buyers around the world. Under its second director, Eleanor Fink, AHIP became increasingly involved in national debates over technology and the "information superhighway". Fink joined AHIP in 1987, was appointed acting director in 1993, and named director in 1994. AHIP's name was changed to the Getty Information Institute in 1996 as part of a new identity program instituted by the Trust just prior to occupancy of the new Getty Center. The GII was dissolved in 1999, and many of its functions were absorbed by the Getty Research Institute.

From the description of Records, 1991-1999. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 85176208