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The UK Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) is coordinating access to arts and humanities resources. It is issuing a Newsletter about its work.
The UK Archaeology Data Service (ADS), part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service has an online newsletter, ADS Online. Details from Alicia Wise.
The ADS site contains links and references to a variety of archaeological computing resources. The intention is to provide ADS users who are new to computer applications in archaeology with some pointers to background information about computing methods.
Another page on the ADS website provides pointers to standards regularly used by archaeologists. This includes information about thesauri and other terminology standards, documentation standards, geospatial standards, and more.
For sources concerning barcoding, see the following links, provided by Per Vestbostad, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities:
The Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive website now has searchable guides to the collection. What makes this resource unique is that it is the first such museum documentation resource to use standards such as SGML and the EAD for encoding the collection guides, using an SGML/Z39.50 search engine as well. The background and workings of the project are detailed from the search page under "behind the scenes"
The following bibliography on the use of computers in collections management and documentation is available free of charge on application to the Institut für Museumskunde, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, In der Halde 1, 14195 Berlin (Dahlem). Tel: +49 (30) 8301 460; Fax: +49 (30) 8410 7862.
Bibliographie zum Einsatz des Computers bei Sammlungsmanagement und -dokumentation / Anne Claudel. Materialien aus dem Institut für Museumskunde. Heft 47, 1997. 87p. (ISSN 0931-7961)
[700 references arranged alphabetically by author, with subject indexes in German, English and French.]
The Catalhoyuk web site in Cambridge demonstrates a prototype service to provide public access to 'raw' data.
The 1996 CIDOC Newsletter was circulated to members in September 1996 and is now accessible on the Web. It includes articles on documentation initiatives and standards in Africa (AFRICOM, etc.) and work by CIDOC and its Working Groups.
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) provides access to Canadian standards resources. Further information is available from CHIN.
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) site now includes access to the Canadian national inventories. Further information is available from CHIN .
The Computers and the History of Art Group (CHArt), was initially a forum for the exchange of ideas between people who were using computers in their research. The largely academic membership was soon augmented by members from museums and art galleries, as well as individuals involved in the management of the visual and textual archives and libraries relevant to the subject. CHArt is a society open to all who have an interest in the application of computers to the study of art and design.
CIMCIM (the International Committee of Musical Instruments Museums and Collections) has published a Web version of Technical drawings of musical instruments in public collections of the world .
D-Lib magazine is an international resource about digital library research, with information about standards (SGML, etc.), imaging, etc. It is coordinated by the US Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). The monthly magazine can be accessed on the Web at its US base or UK mirror. More information from D-Lib.
The Ecole Nationale du Patrimoine has a Web site.
The Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments has published a list of the instruments in its collection on the web. The announcement of this information on CIDOC-L generated a discussion of the importance of making collection data accessible on the Web. Source: Arnold Myers , January 1996.
MDA Information , vol.2, no.3, March 1997, includes articles about Geographic Information Systems and museums.
The Getty Research Institute Web service includes access to IRIS, the online catalogue for the Resource Collections of the Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities. It contains records for most of the holdings of the Research Institute's General and Special Collections, providing access to over 350,000 book and serial titles, and to descriptions of approximately 3,000 archival and photograph collections. IRIS also includes the holdings of the Getty Conservation Institute.
The Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources has been extended. This provides a comprehensive index of museums, etc. on the Internet.
Hampshire County Museums Service (UK) has set up a Web service about its museums, including access to 80,000 records about its collections. These have been transferred from a MODES database. Details from Martin Norgate. Reviewed in Museums Journal, October 1996, p33.
Preprints of papers from the Archives and Museum Informatics conference on Museums and the Web, March 16-19 1997, Los Angeles are available. The full proceedings can be purchased from Archives and Museum Informatics
Alice Grant reports on the European Commission Memorandum of Understanding (Multi-media access to Europe's cultural heritage) in the 1997 CIDOC Newsletter and Archives and Museum Informatics , 11(1), 1997.
The Museum Computer Network has a Web site with lists of professional resources, discussion forums and eSpectra, an electronic version of their newsletter.
Museums and the Web. Museums and the Web 97: selected papers, edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Pittsburg, Penn: Archives and Museum Informatics, 1997. ISBN 1-885626-13-4.
The US National Gallery of Art has launched its Web site, including access to details of 100,000 objects in the collection. Further information is available from Robin Dowden.
The National Maritime Museum Web site includes a search service.
The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) has a Web service, with information about its work on Western and particularly Dutch visual art, including reports on its projects and imaging initiatives.
For sources concerning research and evaluation, see an article in the May issue of Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies. [September 1997]
Katherine Jones-Garmil, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, has developed a page about standards issues. [December 1997]
The July 1996 issue of D-Lib magazine includes a paper about recent metadata and resource discovery initiatives in the UK and Europe, titled ROADS to Desire, by Lorcan Dempsey. This includes information about the development of quality controlled, subject information gateways, the ROADS project and the Desire project. A useful opening section places these developments in the broader context of the evolution of metadata services. [August 1996]
The July 1996 issue of D-Lib magazine includes information about Robin Cover's SGML Web Page, which provides access to Internet resources about SGML. [August 1996]
Larry Reynolds's SGML bibliography is accessible through the University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. See Spectra, Summer 1996, 23(4), p39. [August 1996]
The UNIDROIT convention: (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) is accessible. Information from Patrick Boylan. See Museum Management and Curatorship, 15(1), March 1996, p82-106, for details of the Convention. [July 1996]
UNIDROIT paper: a paper by Marina Schneider (Research Officer, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) on the law and stolen art. Information from Patrick Boylan. [November 1995]
Museum resources and the Internet, by Leonard Will , includes sections on the Internet throughout the world, principal Internet services, resources of use to museums, collaborative projects and the Internet within a museum. This is a revised version of a paper presented at the 1996 CIDOC conference in Nairobi.
Registration methods for the small museum / by Daniel B. Reibel. - 3rd. ed. - Walnut Creek, London, New Delhi : Altamira Press, 1997.
Presenting XML / Richard Light. - Indianapolis : Sams, 1997. - ISBN 1 57521 334 6. The author is a member of CIDOC.
Z39.50 developments in Europe are being tracked by the UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). This includes details of the Z39-50 standard and concept, projects that are exploring its application and systems that use Z39-50. Source: ADAM-News , May 1996.
For an update on the use of Z39.50 in European libraries, see Towards distributed library systems: Z39.50 in a European context, by Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell and John Kirriemuir, Program, 30(1), 1996, 1-22. July 1996.
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