-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ottevanger, Jeremy Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:59 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Work-of-art/Tim Gambell
Hi Andy, thanks for your interest. At the risk of going outside the bounds of this list I'll give you an outline of why I feel such a format might be useful.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would agree that museums and archives show great potential for microformats. As historians, the museum curators and registrars are exceedingly careful to use best standards in documenting their objects. I worked in the museum world for five years and the Dublin core was always held up as a goal for metadata. Unfortunately, the existing collection management software packages utilized it effectively. Further, the museum web sites didn't adopt them. I do believe the museums would adopt a standardized collections microformat quickly. Further, there are some fantastic conferences held worldwide that would allow the sages to meet and agree upon a pattern quickly. However, museum collections don't differ greatly from other archives. The proposed microformat should work with library and digital archive collections. Is there already something like this? Could the Dublin core be converted into a microformat. Here's a list of previous Dublin core discussions at the Archimuse web site (hosts of the museums on the web conferences and more) http://www2.archimuse.com/cgi-bin/htsearch Ted Drake www.last-child.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
