Standards

Gerhard Jan Nauta

Why standards?

• Developments in museum and cultural heritage information standards
• Multimedia Formats (Ch.6 from: Introduction to Multimedia in Museums)
• Standards for Networked Cultural Heritage
• Why standards? (J. Trant, Framing the Picture: Standards for Imaging Systems)

Different types of standards

Data content description standards

• LC Thesaurus for Graphic Material - Title Page
• The Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser
• The ICONCLASS Home Page
• The Union List of Artist Names Browser
• wordHOARD

Data structure standards

• Categories for the Description of Works of Art
• ICOM - CIDOC Relational Data Model
• MARC Home Page (Library of Congress)
• Visual Resources Association (VRA) Core Record

Imaging standards

• CNI/OCLC Image Metadata Workshop
• Image Standards Needed
• J. Trant, Framing the Picture: Standards for Imaging Systems
• OII - Colour Information Interchange Standards
• OII - Raster Graphic Interchange Standards
• OII - Vector Graphic Interchange Standards

Presentation standards

• Standard Icon Set

Standards for information interchange

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML): Working and Background Materials
• Object ID: a core standard for the identification of art
• SGML for Cultural Heritage Information
• TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange
• Z39.50 maintenance agency home page

Standards & institutions

• ADAM: Art, Design, Architecture and Media Information Gateway
• ARLIS/NA Standards Com
• CIDOC Documentation Standards Working Group
• Dublin Core Metadata Element Set: Resource Page
• Museum Documentation Association On-line
• The Getty Information Institute
• The Open Information Interchange Initiative
• Visual Arts, Museums and Cultural Heritage Information Standards
• Welcome to ISO Online(graphics)

Standards & exemplary models

• ArtsEdNet
• CHIO Demonstrator Home
• Portinari: Menu Principal
• The Dickens House Museum Tour Website
• UC Berkeley Digital Library Project