Metadata
Another metadata scheme developed by the museum community is the Object ID. This has a unique purpose, preventing trade in stolen art objects. The FBI, Scotland Yard and Interpol promote it.
"Object ID is an international standard for describing cultural objects. It has been developed through the collaboration of the museum community, police and customs agencies, the art trade, insurance industry, and valuers of art and antiques.
The Object ID project was initiated by the J. Paul Getty Trust in 1993 and the standard was launched in 1997. It is being promoted by major law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, Scotland Yard and Interpol; museum, cultural heritage, art trade and art appraisal organisations; and insurance companies.
Having established the descriptive standard, the Object ID project now helps to combat art theft by encouraging use of the standard and by bringing together organisations around the world that can encourage its implementation."
- Cultural Objects Name Authority Webinar
A webinar on the Cultural Objects Name Authority has been announced.The Museum Computer Network (MCN), Gallery Systems, and the J. Paul Getty Trust are pleased to offer a free Webinar on a new vocabulary under development, the Cultural Objects Name Authority?...
- Frbr/cidoc Crm Harmonization
The Working Group on FRBR/CIDOC CRM Harmonization now has its Web page on IFLANET. The current draft of the object-oriented version of FRBR, nicknamed "FRBRoo", and consolidated minutes of the WG's meetings are also available there.Tasks: in cooperation...
- Describing Cultural Objects
Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Objects and Their Images by the Visual Resources Association.Over the last decade, many organizations and agencies have been working toward the development of data standards for creating descriptions...
- Mets
It's Opening Day for METS by Roy Tennant discusses the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard. He concludes:But whether we use MPEG-21 or METS, a standard that provides a method to encapsulate all the information about an object?whether digital...
- Digital Repository Management System
The Fedora project was established under the auspices of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build a digital object repository management system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). The new system, designed...