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Standards Framework for the Computer Interchange of
Museum Information
David Bearman and John Perkins
First Edition May 1993
Museum Computer Network
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Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
FOREWORD
READING THIS REPORT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GETTING MORE INFORMATION
I. INTRODUCTION TO CIMI
- Origins of CIMI
- Assumptions
- History
- Second CIMI Committee Meeting
- Third CIMI Committee Meeting
- Final CIMI Committee Meeting
- CIMI Task Groups
II. INFORMATION STANDARDS
- Standards organizations
- Standards Frameworks
- OSI
- OSE
- CALS
- Interchange
III. REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPUTER INTERCHANGE OF MUSEUM INFORMATION
- General Functional Requirement
- Museum Applications and their Interchange Requirements
- Database Building
- Information Retrieval
- Business Transactions
- Message Handling
- Document Handling
- File Transfer
- Realtime Links
IV. STANDARDS OPTIONS FOR MUSEUM DATA INTERCHANGE
- Options for Telecommunications and Media Standards
- Options for Museum Interchange Applications
- Collections Catalogues and Reference Databases
- Information Retrieval
- Business Transactions
- Messaging and Directory Services
- File Transfer
- Document Handling
- Human/Machine Interaction
V. RECOMMENDATIONS
- Museum recommendations
- Vendor and Network recommendations
- Museum profession recommendations
VI. IMPLEMENTING THE STANDARDS FRAMEWORK FOR CIMI
- Implementation strategy
- Tasks for present and future CIMI task groups
- The future of the CIMI initiative
