This page provides current information about museum documentation projects. It is one of a number of pages about museum information standards and related documentation issues prepared by the International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC). There is also an introduction to the overall set of pages about recent initiatives.
The ADAM project is an initiative to create an information gateway to art, design and architecture resources on the Internet. It has a Web site and a discussion list. Further details from Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader.
The AFRICOM Inventory Working Group met in Mombasa in September 1996 and Tunisia in 1997. The Group has now completed work on the Handbook of standards (International Council of Museums, 1996. Handbook of standards: documenting African collections/Manuel de normes: documentation des collections Africaines. ISBN 92-9012-029-0). The Handbook aims at establishing common documentation standards for use by museums throughout Africa, to facilitate the development and exchange of information. The Handbook is available on-line. See ICOM News, 50(1-2), 1997, 4-5, for information.
Australian museums and galleries on line (AMOL). - Haymarket, NSW : AMOL. - Viewed 11th August 2000.
Australian Museums On Line is Australia's online cultural heritage resource. Find exact details of museums, art galleries and historical societies Australia-wide; partake in the museums stories;search through more than 400,000 item records from over 36 cultural heritage collections; join in discussion on the online museum forum; and an online peer reviewed journal; and consult an extensive resource area specifically developed for the museum community. - [Metadata description from home page]
The Aquarelle project is concerned with developing an Information Network on Cultural Heritage. It is supported by the European Commission. For more information, contact Dr Alain Michard.
The Corporation of London Data Imaging Project is reviewed in the first of a series of VADS Case Studies.
Recent development with European Union IT initiatives are summarised in an article by Heather Falconer, titled 'European pie', Museums Journal, August 1996, 31-33 for information. She stressed the effort involved in putting together a successful proposal to programmes such as Rapael (DGX). Details are given of the OIKIS project involving museums in the UK, Greece and Portugal, developing common documentation standards and a sample database. July 1996.
New initiatives of the Getty Information Institute/Getty Art History Information Program include Imaging, Categories for the Description of Works of Art and International Documentation Standards for the Protection of Cultural Objects and Networked Information Sources in the Arts and Humanities (NISAH). February 1996.
The final report of the Museum Educational Site Licensing (MESL) Project is available on-line and in printed form in two volumes. See also the article by Jennifer Trant in Spectra, 23(3), 1996, titled 'The Museum Educational Site Licensing (MESL) Project.
ONE (OPAC Network in Europe) is developing Z39.50-based methods for interconnecting libraries and museums. Information from Walter Koch . February 1996.
Information about the RAMA (Remote Access to Museum Archives) project is at several sites in Sweden, Spain and Germany.
The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has launched a new project to develop a Cultural heritage and museum object information resource. This is an initiative to improve access to information about works of art, architecture, visual culture, and material culture found in museums, historical societies, and other cultural heritage institutions. The result will be a web-accessible database of object records linked to visual images and, in some cases, associated texts. During the first phase of the initiative RLG will load data drawn from several sources, including the REACH Project, the Getty's Provenance Index, and the VISION Project for shared visual resources records, a joint effort of RLG and the Visual Resources Association with support from the Getty Information Institute. Researchers using the new database will benefit from the enhanced searching capability that RLG is developing in Eureka, RLG's web-based search engine. "Enhanced searching" will utilize two Getty Information Institute vocabularies -- the Art & Architecture Thesaurus and the Union List of Artist Names -- to facilitate searching across records that contain varying versions of terms or names.
The Research Libraries Group (RLG) and the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP) have joined forces to improve art information access and development. The RLG on-line search systems will make AHIP art-historical indexes and vocabularies internationally accessible and RLG and AHIP will design a program for enhanced data creation by participating libraries and cultural collections. Three pilot projects will be pursued over the next year. Source: RLG Press Release, March 1996.
The Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN) has a Web site, with details of the project.
Van Eyck project. For information contact Frans Havekes of IDC. who took over management of the project from Jan van der Starre in April 2001.
The VISION Project for shared visual resources records was a joint effort of RLG and the Visual Resources Association with support from the Getty Information Institute. This effort was designed to bring more visual resources information online; promulgate and test the use of standards (e.g. the VRA's Core Categories) for creating and sharing such information; and evaluate the new data's value in the context of existing RLG research information databases. VISION and REACH records will both go into the new RLG union catalog for museum objects and image records, accessible through the Web.
http://cidoc.icom.museum/stand3p.htm
Revised / Dernière mise à jour: 2002-12-19
Original author / Auteur original: Andrew
Roberts
Now maintained by / Maintenant entretenu par:
Leonard Will
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