Sascha Curzon, presenter

Background

• Distributed Search Pilot Project –2001/2002– Proof of concept

• Distributed Search Pilot Project V2 – 2006– Additional nodes added, more remote nodes

• eMuseum Network – 2007– Re-branding, updated interface

• eMuseum Network version 2 – 2009– Platform defined, extensive development

begun

• 2010 – data interchange and first level of integration with TMS added

What is

eMuseum Network?

• A way to search across museum

collections from a single access

point

• A tool for the museum community

to exchange data electronically

• Not just search, but a platform

for collaborating

How does it work?

• Each participating museum is a „node‟

• One central search point, like Google

• Choose which collections to search

– Keyword & advanced search

– Refine searches

• See which nodes returned results

• View in list, light box, single item and

XML

• Export functions: CDWA Lite & LIDO

Architecture

eMuseum Network

Lightbox view

eMuseum Network

Lightbox view

Josef Albers

Title contains

“square”

eMuseum Network

Object view

eMuseum Network

• Demonstration

Data Interchange Schema

Public

Museum-to-museum

Internal / confidential

Levels of Information

• Objects (label copy)

• Constituents (maker information)

• Media (public images & other)

• Bibliography

• Exhibitions (past & current)

• Exhibitions (planning, venues)

• Loans

• Insurance & indemnity

• Media

• Acquisitions

• Exhibitions (future, conceptual)

• Location & movement

• Conservation

• Insurance & valuation

• Images, documents & other media

Information Flow

Between Museums

Loan documents

sentLoan transactions

transmitted

electronically

Linked Data

• The term Linked Data refers to a set of

best practices for publishing and

connecting structured data on the

Web.

• Key technologies that support Linked

Data are URIs, HTTP, and RDF.

Source: http://linkeddata.org/faq

Linked Data

Source: http://linkeddata.org

Linked Data Connections

eMuseum Network

AAT

DB pedia

TaxonomyGeo

Names

TGN ULAN

AAT = Art & Architecture ThesaurusTGN = Thesaurus of Geographic NameULAN = Union List of Artist Names

What is the Future of our

Data?

eMuseum Network

Interested in learning more?

Please contact Robb Detlefs at:

eMuseumNetwork @ GallerySystems.com