Introducing the CIMI testbed project (I)
- Testbed Phase I
- Goals
- Evaluate feasibility of DC for museum community
- Identifying and resolving operational, technical and intellectual issues
- Promote international consensus on DC practices in museum community
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- Milestones
- Involvement of over 18 participants (Software vendors, Museums, Consultants, Cultural Heritage Gateways)
- Over 300,000 record repository (museums, collections, artefacts) using DC Simple, both created from scratch and exported from legacy systems
- Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core
- Outcomes
- DC is easy to use
- DC simple is a machete, not a scalpel
- All Elements depend on Resource Type
- DC can be applied to both physical and electronic resources
- Further user evaluation necessary