Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 301.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:20:57 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Consortium for Interchange of Computer Interchange of
Museum Information (CIMI) + HARMONY Call for Participation
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 4, 2000
HARMONY + CIMI COLLABORATION
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Interoperability and Metadata Vocabularies
<http://www.cimi.org/>http://www.cimi.org/
>Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 10:44:29 -0700
>To: "CIMI Public Discussion List" <cimi-friends@cimilists.rlg.org>
>From: Angela Spinazze <ats@atspin.com>
>
Harmony + CIMI Collaboration
Interoperability and metadata vocabularies
Call for Participation
3 October 2000
SUMMARY
We are pleased to invite museums, vendors, and related organizations within
the international museum community to participate in The Harmony Project +
CIMI Collaboration to study issues surrounding interoperability and
metadata vocabularies.
The Harmony Project is an international collaboration funded by DSTC, JISC,
and NSF
<http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/harmony/>http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/harmony/.
Part of their research includes the investigation of a conceptual model for
interoperability among community-specific metadata vocabularies. Towards
this end both the ABC model and the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model will
be evaluated with the goal being to articulate the relationship between
these two models and their intended uses.
The Harmony Project has agreed to work closely with a select group of CIMI
members to understand descriptive needs, understand the contexts in which
data will be used, refine the ABC model and experiment using the ABC model
for translating among different descriptive vocabularies.
CIMI members participating in this research initiative will provide The
Harmony Project with approximately 100 museum records (metadata
descriptions) and associated multimedia content (images, audio, video).
(Textual data to be delivered in Excel spreadsheet format.) Explanations of
the elements and relationships between the elements must also be provided.
Note: Records will need to be publicly accessible in order to demonstrate
the findings.
Results will be communicated back to individual participants and the CIMI
membership in written and oral presentation format at a future meeting
within 12-18 months.
For more information about this project consult the Project Description
available from the CIMI News section of the CIMI web site
<http://www.cimi.org/>http://www.cimi.org/
A pre-requisite of participation in this research project is CIMI
membership. Interested parties should complete the membership application
and sign the Principles of Cooperation and send an expression of interest
via e-mail to Angela Spinazze ats@atspin.com, CIMI Programs Manager, by no
later than October 31, 2000. Expressions of interest should include the
name of the institution and contact person as well as a description of the
types of records to be contributed, schema(s) in use and confirmation that
multimedia content associated with the metadata records is available and
will be provided.
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Angela Spinazze
Programs Manager
CIMI Consortium
<http://www.cimi.org/>http://www.cimi.org/
350 West Erie Street, Suite 250
Chicago, Illinois 60610
+1.312.944.6820 (voice)
+1.312.944.6821 (fax)
e-mail: ats@atspin.com
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