**with apologies for ignorance**

what the heck does interoperability mean and what on earth is a metadata
vocabulary?

>Part of their
> research includes the investigation of a conceptual model for
> interoperability among community-specific metadata vocabularies. Towards
> this end both the ABC model and the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model will
> be evaluated with the goal being to articulate the relationship between
> these two models and their intended uses.

Huh? 

If you are trying to create interest in the community may I suggest you start
first by using terms with accepted/standard/(any) meaning? Recently I've also
encountered such gems as post-genome and post-global. Why must we learned folk
try so hard to verbalize ourselves into oblivion?
I'm sure your project and its goals are worthy. Just a pet peeve, and it's
been a long day.

Steve 



Angela Spinazze <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> **With apologies for cross-posting**
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> =====================================================================
> 
> Harmony + CIMI Collaboration
> Interoperability and metadata vocabularies
> 
> Call for Participation
> 
> 3 October 2000
> 
> 
> SUMMARY
> 
> We are pleased to invite museums, vendors, and related organizations within
> the international museum community to participate in The Harmony Project +
> CIMI Collaboration to study issues surrounding interoperability and
> metadata vocabularies.
> 
> The Harmony Project is an international collaboration funded by DSTC, JISC,
> and NSF http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/harmony/. Part of their
> research includes the investigation of a conceptual model for
> interoperability among community-specific metadata vocabularies. Towards
> this end both the ABC model and the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model will
> be evaluated with the goal being to articulate the relationship between
> these two models and their intended uses.
> 
> The Harmony Project has agreed to work closely with a select group of CIMI
> members to understand descriptive needs, understand the contexts in which
> data will be used, refine the ABC model and experiment using the ABC model
> for translating among different descriptive vocabularies.
> 
> CIMI members participating in this research initiative will provide The
> Harmony Project with approximately 100 museum records (metadata
> descriptions) and associated multimedia content (images, audio, video).
> (Textual data to be delivered in Excel spreadsheet format.) Explanations of
> the elements and relationships between the elements must also be provided.
> Note: Records will need to be publicly accessible in order to demonstrate
> the findings.
> 
> Results will be communicated back to individual participants and the CIMI
> membership in written and oral presentation format at a future meeting
> within 12-18 months.
> 
> For more information about this project consult the Project Description
> available from the CIMI News section of the CIMI web site
http://www.cimi.org/
> 
> A pre-requisite of participation in this research project is CIMI
> membership. Interested parties should complete the membership application
> and sign the Principles of Cooperation and send an expression of interest
> via e-mail to Angela Spinazze [log in to unmask], CIMI Programs Manager, by no
> later than October 31, 2000. Expressions of interest should include the
> name of the institution and contact person as well as a description of the
> types of records to be contributed, schema(s) in use and confirmation that
> multimedia content associated with the metadata records is available and
> will be provided.
> 
> ========================================================================
> ============================================
> Angela Spinazze
> Programs Manager
> CIMI Consortium
> http://www.cimi.org/
> 
> 350 West Erie Street, Suite 250
> Chicago, Illinois  60610
> +1.312.944.6820 (voice)
> +1.312.944.6821 (fax)
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> ============================================


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