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I'll add them as I find them; please e-mail any suggestions.There are some generic databases here and museum/archive specific software, too. As wiser heads have pointed out, the museum software - collections management systems - utilize some database underneath all the "front end" bells and whistles that cover your museum-specific functions. Databases vs. management systems. I will have to reorganize this (and rewrite my own explanation - see link below); I have learned a lot lately. I want to break this list into three categories: start-from-scratch, structured, and museum-specific...so keep checking back.
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Databases (start from scratch)


Systems


(Museum) Collections Management Systems


Please see the other page (here) on museum use of computers for references and info on standards, etc., as well as the links below.

What databases are all about...

What CHIN says... good start; also the offer of an extensive, expensive report.

What does Robert Baron say?

A good paper to read from Berkeley



Some thoughts about standards

What Cal State Berkeley says... about standards and ...finding aids, which are "inventories, registers, indexes or guides to collections held by archives and manuscript repositories, libraries, and museums. Finding aids provide detailed descriptions of collections, their intellectual organization and, at varying levels of analysis, of individual items in the collections. Access to the finding aid is essential for understanding the true content of a collection and for determining whether it is likely to satisfy a scholar's research needs."

A lot of other good stuff from Berkeley is here

What the Library of Congress says... -"As other metadata formats become standard usage in particular communities, we must be prepared to do the same. There has been some work with the Government Information Locator Service (GLIS) and its adaptability to MARC. The hope is that eventually these adaptations can be handled by machine with minimum staff intervention."

see also What David Bearman said at the Library of Congress...


CIMI's release of the Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core


MDA's FISHEN - FORUM ON INFORMATION STANDARDS IN HERITAGE (ENGLAND)
MDA Standards Page


Getty Standards Page


Papers on Metadata from the First IEEE Metadata Conference


My own thoughts. This is what I get out of all of this, right or wrong; please feel free to write and correct any mistakes I have made here or fill in any blanks!



Some links given out at the Getty/UCLA Summer Institute:


http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Longevity/
http://149.142.5.6/~howard/#standards
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html
http://www.nara.gov/nara/vision/eap/eapspec/htm
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/dl/imagespec.html
http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/introimages/index.html
http://bosartconserv.com/emg/index.htm
http://www.rlg.org/visguides/
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regarding metadata standards:
http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/introarchives/
http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata/
http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/cdwa/
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/~staffaw3/vra/vracore3.htm
http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/marc/
http://www.loc.gov/rr/ead/eadhome.html
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http://www.getty.edu/gri/vocabularies/


Some museum digital imaging projects. They have to track these somehow...




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