Jim Blackaby writes:
 
> For many years I have worked on developing relational models for
> museum information based first on notions developed in the work of
> the Common Agenda for History Museums and then on a much simplified
> version of the ICOM-CIDOC model long under consideration by the
> Reconciliation of Standards Working Group of the Documentation
> Committee of ICOM.  A draft of that simple model was developed at
> Paris two years ago, and presented at the last ICOM meeting, but
> never approved by the committee as a whole and so not released.
 
Any chance of getting these specifications on a gopher or ftp server or
similar?  Tracking down paper is a real pain...
 
> Nevertheless, it follows the structure of what you've been ddoing with
> LASSI and others have done in developing data structures.
 
and these?
 
The more models and database designs that are out there on the network,
the less wheels muesum peole will have to reinvent...
 
cheers
 
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