ontologies for the Drexel Digital Museum

project summary

current digimuse public interface

• analysis
• comparisons
• recommendations
• appendix: digimuse.cis.drexel.edu viewed in other browsers
• action required

faceted controlled vocabulary

• sources for terms
• importance of standardization
• critique of previous work
• critique of AAT
• critique of my classification scheme
• appendix: CATEGORY (predecessors' list of costume terms)
• appendix: my thesaurus of costume terms
• action required

metadata

• museum metadata standards
• interoperability standard
• core data categories
• metadata standard
• implementation
• appendix: metadata crosswalk
• action required

interfaces

• data entry interface requirements
  • data elements to be collected
  • interface requirements
  • back-end software
  • outline of data entry workflow
• data entry start page
  • basic data entry
  • accession data entry
• thesaurus search page
  • thesaurus sample entry
  • thesaurus sample entry 2
  • thesaurus sample hierarchical display
• action required

theoretical discussion

• the surrogate vs. the thing
• clothing in the museum
• public interface
• conclusion
• action required

theoretical discussion revised

supporting documents

• independent study proposal
• CATEGORY
• thesaurus
• metadata crosswalk

sources (bibliography)

Donny Smith
May 2002
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