K. Boughida
CCO (http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/), a project of the VRA (http://www.vraweb.org/), provides guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used to populate catalogue records. The main focus of CCO is to describe cultural works and their images. Lately, the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute have begun to develop a standards-based way to contribute descriptive records to union resources using a standard XML metadata schema and the OAI harvesting protocol (http://www.openarchives.org/). This presentation will give attendees a brief overview of CCO and an update on the process of developing this schema, which is still a work in progress. The goal in phase one of the project is to develop a set of core metadata elements to simplify publication and contribution of descriptive records for works of art, architecture, and material culture.
This effort is the result of a collaboration between the Getty and the cultural heritage community represented by libraries, museums, archives, aggregators such as ARTstor and RLG, the OAI best practices group of DLF, and others.
This will be the first opportunity to present the schema to an international audience.
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