Standards in Museum Informatics


The Museum Informatics Project promotes a standards-based approach to museum computing on the Berkeley campus and works with campus units, other institutions, organizations, companies, and individuals to influence and guide the direction and development of international standards for museum informatics.

Museum Informatics Project Standards Development Activities

  • Cultural Heritage Information Online (Project CHIO)
  • Standards Framework for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (MCN/CIMI)
  • Standards of Importance to Museums

  • DEscription Language for Taxonomy (DELTA)
  • HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
  • HyTime Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (SGML Hyperlinks)
  • International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums (CIDOC) Data Model
  • Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Material: Topical Terms for Subject Access
  • SPECTRUM - The U.K. Museum Documentation Standard
  • Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
  • U.S. Geological Survey Mapping Standards
  • Z39.50 Query/Response Protocol for Information Access
  • Organizations Promoting Museum and Library Information Standards

  • Association of Systematics Collections
  • Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR)
  • Compulter Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)
  • Federal Geographic Data Committee
  • Getty Museum Art History Information Program
  • International and National Standards Organizations Overview (from the CIMI Framework Document)
  • International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums (CIDOC/ICOM)
  • Museum Computer Network
  • Musem Documentation Association
  • National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
  • OGIS: Open Geodata Interoperability Specification
  • SGML Open
  • Visual Resources Assocation Data Standards Committee
  • National Information Infrastructure

  • NII Virtual Library
  • NIST NII Home Page: Participation
  • Information Infrastructure Task Force World Wide Web Server
  • National Biological Information Infrastructure

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