Stephen
I, too, was lost in the language.  This isn't the first time, of course.  If
I'm not tired, it can be amusing for aren't we trained to write easily and
quickly understood labels for exhibits?
Audra Oliver

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen G.Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Harmony/CIMI Research Project Call for Participation]


**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**
>
> =====================================================================
>
> 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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