Hi there, 1. At the moment we are not exchanging data with other institutions in a "smart" way. The recent work on our new DAMS will bring more opportunity in this direction though. The key for this is having adopted RDF as the lingua franca for our DAMS.
Before we tackle inter-institutional interoperability, we want to better connect departments within the museum and heterogeneous data sets such as library, archives and collections. This will have more obvious and immediate advantages for us. 2. CIDOC CRM seems to be the most comprehensive and flexible ontology to encompass the widest range possible of cultural heritage items. However, CIDOC CRM cannot be practically used as a cataloging ontology, but rather as a harmonization tool. It should sit between the cataloger and the consumer, and accessed only to machines that can handle its full complexity. There are several publishing schemata that map to CIDOC-CRM and expose only the concepts meaningful to a human end user. There is not, as far as I know, a cataloging schema that is encoded in RDF and maps to CIDOC CRM. I am aware of ongoing efforts to serialize the Getty's AAT (which contains CDWA terms) into RDF [1], but having a separate, formalized cataloging ontology based on CDWA would be a great advancement in this area. 3. We use Fedora [2] which is completely content-agnostic and allows to build any sort of content model. Fedora and its satellite projects encourage the use of PCDM [3] as a very basic and broad-scoped ontology on top of which more domain-specific ontologies can be layered to satisfy any kind of content modeling. 4. My team (5 people) is in charge of designing and implementing our collection information systems. A separate department, Digital Experience and Access, acts as a broker for end users' (staff and public) needs and is in constant dialog with us. I act as an interpreter who translates semi-technical requirements into specifications. [1] http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/lod/index.html [2] http://fedorarepository.org [3] https://github.com/duraspace/pcdm/wiki On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:33:51 +0000 "Delmas-Glass, Emmanuelle" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- 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: [email protected] 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/[email protected]/
