Research Sites

• Centre for Cultural Informatics ICS-FORTH , http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst/Activities/CIS/index.html.

• ETAI Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence - The "Semantic Web" Area http://www.etaij.org/seweb/.

• MDA Museums' Documentation Association , http://www.mda.org.uk/.

• RLG Research Libraries Group - Cultural Materials Initiative , http://www.rlg.org/culturalres/index.html.

• UKOLN - The UK Office for Library and Information Networking , http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/.

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Project Sites

• The National Database Project of Norwegian University Museums - The Museum Project, http://www.muspro.uio.no/engelsk-omM.shtml.  

• The objective of the Diffuse project is to provide a single, value-added, entry point to up-to-date reference and guidance information on available and emerging standards and specifications that facilitate the electronic exchange of information:
  The Diffuse Project , http://www.diffuse.org/.  

• Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) , http://www.amico.org/.
  

• COVAX Contemporary Culture Virtual Archives in XML , http://www.newmedia.at/projects/covax_en.htm.

• Here a project perfectly in line with the CRM philosophy, even though theoretical:
  DWQ - Foundations of Data Warehouse Quality , http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/~~dwq/index.  

• The aim of the EU founded project MALVINE is to faciliate the access to modern manuscript holdings, kept and catalogued in European libraries, archives, documentation centres and museums. For general information, see:
  MALVINE Manuscripts & Letters via Intergrated Networks in Europe , http://www.malvine.org/malvine/eng/catalogues.html.

• Catalogues of manuscripts and letters, encoded in XML using EAD , http://helmer.hit.uib.no/malvine/EADpage.html.

• The Harmony Project, besides others, is investigating a conceptual model for interoperability among community-specific metadata vocabularies.
  The Harmony Project Home Page , http://metadata.net/harmony/.

• This project deals with many technologies useful for the CRM and its application.
  OntoWeb - Ontology-based Information Exchange for Knowledge Management & Electronic Commerce, http://www.ontoweb.org/index.htm.

• A framework for very wide information integration
  Open Archives Initiative , http://www.openarchives.org/.

• The SCHEMAS Project provides a forum for metadata schema designers involved in projects under the IST Programme and national initiatives in Europe:
  The SCHEMAS Project , http://www.schemas-forum.org/.
   

• SOLINET Southern History and Culture Microfilming Project, http://www.solinet.net/solinet/NEH_grant.htm.
  

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Standards

• The objective of the Diffuse project is to provide a single, value-added, entry point to up-to-date reference and guidance information on available and emerging standards and specifications that facilitate the electronic exchange of information. The Diffuse project has been set up to provide neutral reporting on developments relating to standards and specifications in support of Key Action II (New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce) and Key Action III (Multimedia Content and Tools) of the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) programme:
  Diffuse Project , http://www.diffuse.org/

• The Working Group on Process Standards is part of the Special Interest Group on Content Standardisation of the ESPRIT-funded OntoWeb Project:
  OntoWeb Working Group on Process Standards , http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ontoweb/.

• This site presents the metadata model used in the German "BAM Projekt" (Libraries-Archives-Museums Project) in the land Baden-Wuerttemberg:
  Datenmodell DLmeta , http://www.bsz-bw.de/diglib/dlmeta/.

• MODES is a piece of software originally developed by mda and subsequently floated off as an independent, not-for-profit organisation. There are over 600 users of MODES so it is the most widely used museum information management software in the UK:
  MODES OBJECT FORMAT, http://www.modes.freeserve.co.uk/.

• A summary of standards relevant for archaeology can by found on this site:
  ADS Archaeology Data Service - Standards in Archaeology , http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/userinfo/standards.html.

• This project has developed in parallel to the CIDOC CRM an event-centric model, mainly to deal with intellectual property rights:
  Interoperability of Data in E-Commerce Systems - Indecs Project , http://www.indecs.org/.

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - Data Model Working Group , http://purl.org/dc/groups/datamodel.htm.

• EAD Encoded Archival Description , http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/.

• FISH Forum on Information Standards in Heritage , http://www.mda.org.uk/fish/.

• Multimedia Content Description Interface (MPEG-7) , http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/mobile/MPEG7/index.html.

• UKOLN - The UK Office for Library and Information Networking , http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/.

• W3C - Semantic Web Activity: Resource Description Framework (RDF) , http://www.w3.org/RDF/.

• VRA - Visual Resources Association, http://www.vraweb.org/

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User Organisations

• ICOMOS Organization for the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites, http://www.icomos.org/ICOMOS_Main_Page.html

• AMICO Art Museum Image Consortium , http://www.amico.org/.
  

• AMOL Australians Museums & Galleries On-Line , http://www.amol.org.au/.
  

• CIMI Consortium , http://www.cimi.org/.
  

• CULTIVATE-EU European Cultural Heritage Network linking the National Nodes across Europe , http://www.cultivate-eu.org/.
  

• EMII European Museums' Information Institute , http://www.emii.org/.
  

• MDA Museums' Documentation Association , http://www.mda.org.uk/.
  

• RLG Research Libraries Group , http://www.rlg.org/toc.html.
  

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