Hi all,
the Berkeley Art Museum has a digital asset management database which
enables us to publish to the web via the Union Catalog administered
through the Online Archive of California (OAC). Or, to disentangle
that statement somewhat :-), the database does not export html, or
hook up directly to the web; it exports Encoded Archival Description
(EAD) xml, Making of America 2 (MOA2) xml and Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI Lite) xml, which serve as file exchange formats for
upload to the OAC. Once we've uploaded the files, our collections
data can be searched in the context of collections from 60 other
repositories and growing (museums, archives, libraries) statewide. We
also present all that xml collections mark-up locally on our own
website. The database was developed in the context of a project
called MOAC - Museums and the Online Archive of California
(http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/)
The benefit of this approach is that we get the best of both worlds -
data integration with other institutions, which among many other
things means researchers / cultural tourists who don't even know we
exist will stumble across our data; and local control over our
presentation on our own website.
We'll also join the club of folks with work-in-progress (is anything
ever really finished these days?) - we're in the process of writing a
consortial grant to professionally re-develop the database, adding
support for a host of new file exchange formats such as Metadata
Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) and NISO Technical Metadata
in XML (MIX), and support for AV materials. The project aims to
produce a community tool which museums can use to submit data to
various online portals such as OAC, RLG, AMICO etc as well as present
them locally; support for management of digital assets is also part
of the specification.
Cheers,
Guenter
Hi all,
Maybe we should create a still-working-on-it-club of museums. We are also
in the planning stages--though we have a database & a web component (which
we use in-house), our current web component needs a lot of development
before it is ready for the public. So we are starting to talk about the
interface and whether we can pull info from other databases simultaneously.
I look forward to hearing more on the list!
Marla Misunas
Manager, Collections Database
Collections Information and Access
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
415 357 4186 voice
415 947 1186 fax
http://www.sfmoma.org
Board Member, Museum Computer Network
http://www.mcn.edu
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Like the Cincinnati Art Musuem, the Gallery of Art at Washington University
in St. Louis is also in the planning stages of developing an online,
searchable catalogue of its collection (we recognize we are behind the
times). I too am interested in learning about end-user studies and other
helpful resources to guide us in the planning process.
Stephanie Parrish
Washington University Gallery of Art
Saint Louis, Missouri 63130
http://galleryofart.wustl.edu/
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Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
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