TY - GEN
T1 - Metadata Standards for Virtual Museums
AU - Sylaiou, Stella
AU - Lagoudi, Elena
AU - Martins, João
N1 - EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016)
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The raison d’être of museums are their collections. Museums’ main purpose is to collect, preserve exhibit and interpret the objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific significance for the higher reasons of education, study and enjoyment. Museum objects are information carriers. In the Information and Communication Technologies era information about museum objects is documented, organized and communicated with the help of information systems in virtual museums. Considering the working definition of the ViMM project, a virtual museum (VM) can be considered a digital entity that, considering the museum’s specificities, enhances, complements, or augments the museum through interactivity, personalization, user experience and richness of content. The virtual museums’ context is organized with the help of metadata, the data about the data. This paper presents the main metadata standards used by virtual museums and the qualitative results of an extensive survey conducted in the framework of the ViMM project for identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the main used metadata standards.
AB - The raison d’être of museums are their collections. Museums’ main purpose is to collect, preserve exhibit and interpret the objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific significance for the higher reasons of education, study and enjoyment. Museum objects are information carriers. In the Information and Communication Technologies era information about museum objects is documented, organized and communicated with the help of information systems in virtual museums. Considering the working definition of the ViMM project, a virtual museum (VM) can be considered a digital entity that, considering the museum’s specificities, enhances, complements, or augments the museum through interactivity, personalization, user experience and richness of content. The virtual museums’ context is organized with the help of metadata, the data about the data. This paper presents the main metadata standards used by virtual museums and the qualitative results of an extensive survey conducted in the framework of the ViMM project for identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the main used metadata standards.
KW - Digital documentation
KW - Virtual museums
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055418408&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-01762-0_42
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-01762-0_42
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055418408
SN - 978-3-030-01761-3
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 483
EP - 497
BT - Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection - 7th International Conference, EuroMed 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Fink, Eleanor
A2 - Brumana, Raffaella
A2 - Wallace, Manolis
A2 - Doulamis, Anastasios
A2 - Patias, Petros
A2 - Ioannides, Marinos
A2 - Martins, Joao
PB - Springer Verlag
CY - Cham
T2 - 7th International Conference on Digital Heritage, EuroMed 2018
Y2 - 29 October 2018 through 3 November 2018
ER -