Amber, thanks for sharing. (I've been traveling while the report was released, otherwise I would have posted a note to MCN-L last week.)
A little more context: the Museum Data Exchange, a Mellon funded project, engaged 9 museums in creating tools for extracting data in CDWA Lite XML out of collections management systems; making records available for harvesting in OAI-PMH; creating a research aggregation of 900K records; and analyzing the records for standards compliance / coherence. The Museums participating in this activity were: Cleveland Museum of Art; Harvard Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; National Gallery of Art; National Gallery of Canada; Princeton University Art Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum; Yale University Art Gallery The report (http://bit.ly/aU3nkP) as well as data sharing as an activity has many ties to MCN: it acknowledges MCN's emergence in the early 70s around aspirations of data sharing; it cites the session at MCN 2005 when the Getty first announced CDWA Lite XML and the OAI-PMH sharing strategy; and it takes its sub-title from a double-session at MCN 2007 I moderated which highlighted data sharing in art museums and natural history. You may have also caught the session at MCN 2009 moderated by Cathryn Goodwin, which presented outcomes from this project. Cheers, G?nter Waibel OCLC Research voice: +1-650-287-2144 G?nter blogs at ... http://www.hangingtogether.org Follow me on Twitter ... http://twitter.com/GuWa -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Morgan, Amber Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 6:23 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] New Report, "Museum Data Exchange: Learning How to Share" Just passing this along... http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-02-11.htm the warhol: Amber E. Morgan Associate Registrar 117 Sandusky Street Pittsburgh, PA 15212 T 412.237.8306 F 412.237.8340 E morgana at warhol.org W www.warhol.org The Andy Warhol Museum One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Email newsletter http://members.carnegiemuseums.org/email Membership http://members.carnegiemuseums.org/SupportCMP _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
