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  Harvesting Format for Providing Core Data from Museum Holdings

  museumdat

museumdat is a harvesting format optimised for retrieval and publication, meant to deliver automatically core data to museum portals. It builds largely upon the data format CDWA Lite developed in the US by the Getty, the Visual Resources Association and others, with a specific focus on arts. museumdat now applies for all kinds of object classes, e.g. cultural, technology or natural history, and is compatible with the reference model of the international documentation committee CIDOC-CRM (ISO 21127). museumdat   is an outcome of the work of Fachgruppe Dokumentation des Deutschen Museumsbundes (DMB).

museumdat-v1.0.pdf Specification: Documentation
museumdat-v1.0.xsd Specification: XML Schema-Definition

  Use of museumdat

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Validation remarks
Mailing list
User list

  Documents

museumdat-info-de.pdf Short introduction
museumdat-launch-de.pdf Official Launch (in German only)
[Official launch of the format during the annual meeting of the Documentation Comittee / German Museums Association]
cdwalite_and_museumdat.pdf CDWA Lite and museumdat
[Presentation of museumdat during CDWA Lite meeting at the "Museum Computer Network"-Conference in Chicago, Nov 10th 2007, includes special comparison with CDWA Lite]

  Contact

Regine Stein
Image Archive "Bildarchiv Foto Marburg"
Monika Hagedorn-Saupe
Institute for Museum Research (SMB-PK), Berlin
Carlos Saro
Zuse Institute Berlin