Dear all, In order to get us started with the LAM interoperability SIG, we would like to get your feedback on a few questions.
1. Use cases: as a museum, library or archive, whenever you tried to integrate your data with other institutions, what worked, what didn't, and why? 2. Interoperable metadata schemas and/or ontologies: what is out there that can help bring collection data and bibliographical data together? What do you think about them, what are the challenges and how do you plan or wish to utilize them? 3. Existing interoperability tools: what software platforms do you use? If you could design your own, what would they be? 4. Staffing: what staff member(s) usually work together on these questions of data interoperability at your institution (list titles)? What new staff position(s) would be useful? If you could give brief replies that would be great. The goal is to assess the challenges of our community as well as the opportunities. This common base should lead to some interesting discussions that we could bring up in an in-person meeting at the next MCN conference in New Orleans. Emmanuelle and Stefano Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass Collections Data Manager Collections Information & Access Department Yale Center for British Art http://britishart.yale.edu 203-410-4069 -- Stefano Cossu Director of Application Services, Collections The Art Institute of Chicago 116 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60603 _______________________________________________ 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@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
