Research articles

 

Museum Metadata in a Collaborative Environment: North Carolina ECHO and the North Carolina Museums Council Metadata Working Group

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/papers/wisser/wisser.html

 

This one might be a good paper to review. We know that eventually WHO will need to add EAD to the metadata mix for WHO participants. I think we haven't been ready but if the Museum Group decides this would resolve some of the problems perhaps the Metadata Working Group could take this up soon. BTW, The ECHO project is one that Wisconsin has been tracking closely.

 

Cross-domain searching of library, archive and museum metadata – some considerations. By Malcolm Polfreman, 4^th March 2004.

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/projects/htf/docs/M&I_XDomainSearchingIssuesPaperD1.doc

 

This article appears to me to neatly lay out the problems our group has been discussing. Polfreman proposes four key stages to work through. Worth it for the Museum Group to do this? 

 

 

Mapping, Data Dictionaries and Crosswalks

 

NEW! Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage, Field Labels used by cultural heritage institutions from a survey that “inventoried digitization-worthy collections across the state to determine their content, age, condition, and the collection owners’ ability to carry out the project” . MDCH Collection Survey fields.doc

 

Museum Humanities Mapping to Dublin Core

http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Standards/appendix1.xls

 

University of Washington Metadata Implementation Group

http://www.lib.washington.edu/msd/mig/datadicts/default.html

 

I couldn't determine if any of these collections were museum collections, but some of the material could be museum type things.

 

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection

http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/index.html

 

BYU Museum of Art Collection

http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/moa/

 

These are from the same state collection of collections, a CONTENTdm collaborative project from Arizona Memory. There were many museum collections represented. I chose these because they represent artifacts.

 

Basketry from the Pueblo Grande Museum

http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/index.php?CISOROOT=/pgmbaskt

 

Old Trails Museum Collection Highlights     

http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/index.php?CISOROOT=/otmch

 

The Bead Museum Collection Highlights

http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/tbmhilites

 

 

Here's a link to a terrific crosswalk example:

 

From Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information

Online Edition, Version 2.1

Getty Research Institute

Metadata Standards Crosswalks

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/metadata_element_sets.pdf

 

I'd suggest using this as a guide while you are mapping your fields to the WHO Metadata Standards mandatory eight fields.

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