Subject: Consortium for Interchange of Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) + HARMONY Call for Participation
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:12:18 -0400
Message-Id: <v04210132b60105ec1a01@[192.100.21.22]> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:12:18 -0400 To: ninch-announce@cni.org 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/
>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>
>Subject: [cimi-friends] Harmony/CIMI Collaboration Call for Participation
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/. 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/
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/
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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