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The CIMI Profile Z39.50 Search and Retrieval of Cultural Heritage Information

The CIMI Profile Z39.50 Search and Retrieval of Cultural Heritage Information. William E. Moen Project Manager CIMI Profile Development <wemoen@jove.acs.unt.edu>. CIMI: Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information. CIMI Consortium -- 20+ Member Organizations

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The CIMI Profile Z39.50 Search and Retrieval of Cultural Heritage Information

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  1. The CIMI ProfileZ39.50 Search and Retrieval of Cultural Heritage Information William E. Moen Project Manager CIMI Profile Development <wemoen@jove.acs.unt.edu>

  2. CIMI:Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information • CIMI Consortium -- 20+ Member Organizations • Forum to solve complex problems concerning electronic interchange of museum information • Coordinating technical and professional standards development and encourage standards-based software and network services • Develop and test specifications for services, user models, and a set of base standards • Collaborate on the development of models, formats and syntaxes • Z39.50, Dublin Core, Integrated Information Mgmt

  3. Background & Context • Project CHIO -- NEH funded demonstration (1995-1997) • CIMI Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed (1998) • six month implementation experience to test specifications and identify issues • The CIMI Z39.50 Profile for search & retrieval of cultural heritage information (1998) • Harmonization of CIMI Profile with Aquarelle Project

  4. Challenges • Modeling search and retrieval across a variety of museum information resources • Providing clear semantics related to access points and other query criteria for communication of museum searches • Developing schemas and abstract record structures to enable the retrieval of images & text from museum repositories & libraries

  5. A Uniform Interface for Distributed & Integrated Access Remote Museum Information Systems Remote Library Information Systems Internet Access Your Museum’s Information Archive CIMI Z39.50 Client Collections Mgmt Library

  6. The CIMI Profile • Specifications for using Z39.50 for search and retrieval of cultural heritage information • Evolved to reflect solutions to issues and implementation experience • Highlights: • CIMI Attribute Set -- reflecting access points for searching • Abstract Record Schema -- reflecting different views on database record for retrieval • Integration of Dublin Core Elements

  7. Retrieval of Multiple Images and Multiple Resolutions Original Object You have a range of information About the Original Object Image1 Image2 About Surrogate Images (Digital) CIMI Profile has specs to provide mechanism to express the information High Resolution About Multiple Resolutions (Digital) Thumb- nail Snap- Shot

  8. CIMI Z39.50 Working Group Meeting • A CIMI-2 Attribute Set within the framework of the new attribute architecture • Using XML to express the CIMI Record Schema, currently expressed in GRS-1 • Interchanging institution & scope of collections information • The use of the Z39.50 Thesaurus Profile

  9. CIMI Profile Information • CIMI Website: • www.cimi.org • The CIMI Profile • http://www.cimi.org/standards/index.html#THREE

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