Biography for James M. Bower:

     James M. Bower is Project Manager, Director's Office
     of the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP). 
     He is involved in AHIP's initiatives on imaging,
     documentation standards, networked access, and
     intellectual integration of computerized databases.

Background on the Art History Information Program:

The Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), one of six operating
programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust, seeks to make art-historical information
more accessible to scholars and researchers through the use of advanced
computer technology.  It does so by promoting common perspectives and
standards among international institutions and organizations on projects in
four general areas: working to affect policies that will enhance access to
electronic information; coordinating vocabularies to facilitate consistent data
entry and retrieval; providing bibliographic services; and assembling art
historical databases.  Among AHIP's projects are the Art & Architecture
Thesaurus, the Art Information Task Force, the Image and Information
Standards Initiative, the Bibliography of the History of Art, the Avery
Index to Architectural Periodicals, the Provenance Documentation
Collaborative, the Witt Computer Index, the Union List of Artist
Names, and the Thesaurus of Geographic Names.