mda/ke emu/110406 mda initiatives and spectrum nick poole mda director
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MDA/KE EMu/110406
MDA Initiatives and SPECTRUM
Nick Poole
MDA Director
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MDA
• UK’s lead organisation for collections management
• Responsible for:
– Maintaining professional standards
– Supporting best practice
– Providing training
– Giving advice
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SPECTRUM
• Industry standard for documentation and information management in museums
• Revised edition published April 2005
• 21 procedures for different elements of collections management
• 400+ Units of Information
• Published as an open standard and available free of charge from www.mda.org.uk
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SPECTRUM XML
• Published online as an XML service
• Self-publishing XML schema
• Mapping to the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
• A distributed platform for ongoing editing and updating of the standard
• Updating the CIMI Data Interchange Format
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SPECTRUM International
• Working to assigning translation and localisation rights to partners throughout the EU
• SPECTRUM proposed as the basis of a Europe-wide system for supporting collections mobility
• Working towards a European standard
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SPECTRUM Terminology
• New online service launched Jan 2006
• 3 core services:
– Terminology Essentials key principles of terminology
– Terminology Workshop hints and tips on creating consistent terminologies
– Terminology Bank, download structured terminologies to use in projects
• Working on an AHRC-funded investigation into the Semantic Web for museums
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New directions
• Documentation for Diversity
– Using documentation records and Collections Management Systems to record information from diverse communities
• Learning Collections
– Investigating how documentation systems can support the delivery of Generic Learning Outcomes as part of the Inspiring Learning for All framework
• Research to demonstrate the social and economic impact of information management
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MDA & KE EMu
• KE has become one of the first MDA Partners
• Ensuring that systems are compliant with the SPECTRUM standard
• Meeting the requirements of the Museum Accreditation Scheme
• Delivering best practice through your software
• KE helping to shape the future development of the SPECTRUM standard
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SPECTRUM Compliance
• Unit of Information Compliance
– How are the Units of Information represented in the system
• Access Compliance
– Is SPECTRUM accessible from within the system
• Data Migration Compliance
– Does the system support lossless migration to a SPECTRUM-structured dataset
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Collections Link
• National collections management advisory service
• Office-hours telephone advice in 16 areas of professional practice including documentation, digitisation, online publishing and copyright
• Online library of over 200 best practice publications from partners throughout the UK including the National Archives, Institute of Conservation, Museum Copyright Group and others
• Launches end of April 2006
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Contact
Nick Poole
Director
MDA
Tel. 01223 415 760
www.mda.org.uk