|
5. AMICO (ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM)
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a non-profit corporation
formed by North American Art Museums to provide educational access
to and delivery of cultural heritage information by creating, maintaining
and licensing a collective digital library of images and documentation
of works in their collections.
AMICO Data Dictionary (Version 1.3):
http://www.amico.org/AMICOlibrary/dataspec.html
http://www.amico.org
top
6. CHIO (CULTURAL HERITAGE INFORMATION ONLINE)
Project CHIO (Cultural Heritage Information Online) demonstrates
solutions to the difficulties in achieving online access to cultural
heritage information held in diverse locations--independent of the
hardware and software used to store the data or search for it. The
experiences gained from demonstrating how cultural information can
be structured for easy electronic access are as important a result
as the CHIO website itself, which offers a wide variety of information
on folk art.
Using CHIO allows you to learn about folk art while you get a glimpse
of how powerful online access to a broad variety of museum information
from all over the world can be. The CHIO website allows access to
databases of museum object records, full texts, and library catalogue
entries, along with images and online tools such as the Art and
Architecture Thesaurus (AAT).
http://www.cimi.org/projects/chio.html
top
7. ETB IST-1999-11781 (THE EUROPEAN SCHOOLS
TREASURY BROWSER)
EU FP5 project from 1 February 2000 for 26 months. To build
a Web educational resource Metadata Networking infrastructure for
schools in Europe, to link together existing national repositories,
encourage new publication, and provide a reliable level of quality
and structure. To add value to these systems by an interoperable
layer to help teachers and students locate resources Europe wide
through a School net Information Space with rules to facilitate
location of relevant resources.
Includes:
A Web enabled multilingual educational subject classification
and thesaurus to aid accessing and providing content.
An intelligent data-entry system for the end-user including a
metadata authoring tool with gateways to existing metadata systems,
and a quality assurance procedure
A dynamic metadata network to allow the flow of information across
the internet.
A metadata registry with an intuitive search interface (client).
A full set of measures of harmonisation and normalisation addressing
different layers:
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/projects/99-11781.htm
top
8. HIGH-LEVEL THESAURUS (HILT) PROJECT
The High-Level Thesaurus one-year project from August 2000 aims
to research, report, and make recommendations on the problems
of cross-searching and browsing by subject across a range of communities,
services, and service or resource types. HILT is jointly funded
by RSLP and JISC in the UK higher education sector.
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk
top
9. INTEGRATED ARTS INFORMATION ACCESS (IAIA)
PROJECT
The primary goal of the Integrated Arts Information Access (IAIA)
Project is to develop a user-friendly interface for a standards-based
information framework. Audiences will have access to the permanent
collections, archives, and libraries of the Walker Art Centre
and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts for K-12 educational and
non-commercial use via the Internet. Investigated Dublin Core/CIMI
and AMICO.
IAIA Fields AMICO list + additions desired for IAIA at http://www.walkerart.org/iaia/10defns.html
http://www.walkerart.org/iaia/
top
10. MALVINE (MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS VIA
INTEGRATED NETWORKS IN EUROPE)
The MALVINE project opens new and enhanced access to disparate
holdings of modern manuscripts and letters, kept and catalogued
in European libraries, archives, documentation centres and museums.
System components are a multi-site search engine, OPAC, import
and conversion tools handling archival data. The technical goal
is to develop a smart piece of software which can be easily integrated
into other web based applications and solutions. MALVINE uses
EAD (Encoded Archival Description), JAVA, Z39.50 / ISO-23950 (search
& retrieval) and XML. MALVINE differs from MASTER (q.v) in its
focus on modern literary manuscripts and on making existing catalogue
records work together, rather than establishing a standard for
new records.
http://www.malvine.org/
top
11. MASTER (MANUSCRIPT ACCESS THROUGH STANDARDS
FOR ELECTRONIC RECORDS)
MASTER is a European Union Framework IV Telematics for Libraries
funded project to create a single on-line catalogue of medieval
manuscripts in European libraries. This project will develop a
single standard for computer-readable descriptions of manuscripts.
It will create software for making these records, test the standard
and the software on at least 2000 manuscripts, and mount the records
in a single networked catalogue, available to everyone. The catalogue
will also include images of many manuscripts.
http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/master/
top
12. REACH (RECORD EXPORT FOR
ART AND CULTURAL HERITAGE)
The REACH Project was an effort to create a test-bed database
of museum object records. The goal was to export existing machine-readable
data from heterogeneous museum collection management systems and
analyse the research value of the resulting database when researchers
use a single interface to search the database in conjunction with
RLG's other resources, including bibliographic and archival records
in RLINŽ, auction catalogue records in the SCIPIO database, finding
aids, plus abstracting and indexing tools such as the Bibliography
of the History of Art, and Anthropological Literature. The project
was ended in November 1998 when circumstances changed. The basic
REACH Elements Set (http://www.rlg.org/reach.elements.html)
is reported by the project as having had many commonalities with
other cultural heritage data standards. 'It can be a useful starting
point in further work at RLG and elsewhere to identify the core
data needed to effectively integrate networked cultural heritage
resources for the benefit of research.'
http://www.rlg.org/reach.html
top
13. RENARDUS [=RENARD IST-1999-10562]
(ACADEMIC SUBJECT GATEWAY SERVICE EUROPE)
EU FP5 project from 1 January 2000 - 30 June 2002. Renardus partners
are drawn from European library and other information-related
communities. They work at the forefront of developments in quality-controlled
subject gateways, providing access to selected, quality resources
for the academic and research communities.
The aim of the Renardus project is to provide users with integrated
access, through a single interface, to these and other Internet-based,
distributed services.
http://www.renardus.org/
top
|
