European Standards Survey
| 1.8.i International Initiatives | |||
| i. Overall Comments: |
| If museums have
international contacts, Kulturrådet does not influence in that. But a lot
of museums are partners in EC projects, but not, as we know, anything in the
area of documentation and collections management.
There are about 15 Swedes who are members of CIDOC, although none of them have a central position for the moment. Development of the classification system 'Outline of Cultural Materials' for the institutions in the Nordic countries (See details entered by Norway) | |||
| 1.8.ii National Initiatives | |||
| i. Overall Comments: |
| Insam (Informationsystem i samverkan vid svenska museer or Swedish museums information systems co-operation) has been a large project from 1996 to date with documentation standards, authority lists and term lists. | |||
| Initiative Details | |||
| Name: | |||
| Museum Standards | |||
| Duration (Start/End Date): | |||
| 1996 - | |||
| URL: | |||
| http://www.insam.mus.org/standard/index.html | |||
| Contact name: | |||
| Hans Rengman, curator | |||
| Contact address: | |||
| hansr@bohusmus.se | |||
| Partners | |||
| Nordiska museet and Bohuslns museum | |||
| Brief description (published aims and objectives): | |||
| Insam (Informationsystem i samverkan vid svenska museer or Swedish museums information systems co-operation) has been a large project from 1996 to date with documentation standards, authority lists and term lists. Most of the job is done, Hans Rengman is the coordinator and works today with a new adding project: SAMSOEK. |
| Initiative Details | |||
| Name: | |||
| SAMSOEK | |||
| Duration (Start/End Date): | |||
| 1999 - | |||
| URL: | |||
| www.samsok.net | |||
| Contact name: | |||
| Jacob Lundqvist and Hans Rengman | |||
| Contact address: | |||
| jaclu@grm.se, hansr@bohusmus.se | |||
| Partners | |||
| Kulturrdet, and about 20 museums in Sweden. | |||
| Brief description (published aims and objectives): | |||
| SAMSOEK is a project to develop scripts for querying in many databases simultaneously. It is a brief code (provider) to add to the database who can communicate with a search engine. They use Z39.50 and a subset from the CIMI profile 1.0. |
| 1.8.iii Regional Initiatives | |||
| i. Overall Comments: |
| There are some regional initiatives in the area of co-operation containing archives, libraries and museums. These 'MLA-initiatives' (ABM-inititiv) try to build new databases utilising material from the whole sector. The idea is to give a 'one face concept' for the public. | |||
| Submission Details |
| i. Submitted by: | Bengt Wittgren |
| ii. Job title: | curator |
| iii. Organisation: | Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs (Kulturrdet) |
| iv. E-mail: | bengt.wittgren@kur.se or bengt@ylm.se |
| v. Date Submitted: | 14/03/2000 |
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