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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" <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Angela Spinazze <[log in to unmask]>
>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 [log in to unmask],
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)
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