I think this link to the "digital toolbox" devised by the Colorado Digitization project is useful in explaining acronyms and the projects and/or standards they represent. Hope it's helpful.
http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/access.html#Vocabulary Cathryn L. Goodwin Information Technologies The Saint Louis Art Museum 1 Fine Arts Drive St. Louis MO 63110 314.655.5349 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Farrell, David" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:17 AM Subject: Definitions of terms > Some of the recent threads on this list serve have been very pertinent from > a collections management point of view. On the other hand a couple of recent > messages have used acronyms which may not have been understood by all > readers of the list serve. I come from a collections management background > rather than a software background but I am not unfamiliar with database > concepts since I have designed a collections management system myself. The > main reason for my subscribing was to educate myself further on the use > software in a collections management context. But I need to know what some > of the more specialized software terms refer to. If there is a resource for > finding definitions of the terms used on this list serve please post it. It > would probably be of great use to more people than just myself. > > David Farrell, Collections Assistant > Peel Heritage Complex > 9 Wellington Street East > Brampton, ON L6W 1Y1 > (905) 791-4055 ext. 2108 > (905) 451-4931 fax > www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/index.htm > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] > --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
