Creating a Standards-Based Model for Sharing Cultural Heritage Collections Online:
The CDWA Lite/OAI PMH Project
Murtha Baca
Head, Getty Vocabulary Program
Getty Research Institute
Karim Boughida
Senior Information Systems Architect
Getty Research Institute
Ken Hamma
Executive Director, Digital Policy and Initiatives
J. Paul Getty Trust
Bill Ying
Chief Technical Officer
ARTstor
Nik Honeysett
Manager, Web Group
J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust and ARTstor have joined in a collaborative project to develop a standards-based way to express cultural heritage collection metadata and images and to expose them for automated sharing. The key elements of this pilot project are a new descriptive metadata XML schema, "CDWA Lite," which was developed by the project partners and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH). The project briefing will describe the value of the CDWA Lite schema as well as the intellectual and technical issues involved in creating the schema and mapping metadata from diverse collections to it. We will also address the challenges of building and managing a project team with the necessary knowledge and skills to create the technical infrastructure and methodology to enable data providers to make their collections available in a standards-based way and for service providers to harvest authoritative, up-to-date, consistent metadata and digital images from contributors. Based on lessons learned, the team will point to emerging guideposts that may make this an easier and more sustainable model for contributing to aggregated resources.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/cdwalite
