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Metadata Standards for Virtual Museums

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2018)

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The raison d’être of museums are their collections. Museums’ main purpose is to collect, preserve exhibit and interpret the objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific significance for the higher reasons of education, study and enjoyment. Museum objects are information carriers. In the Information and Communication Technologies era information about museum objects is documented, organized and communicated with the help of information systems in virtual museums. Considering the working definition of the ViMM project, a virtual museum (VM) can be considered a digital entity that, considering the museum’s specificities, enhances, complements, or augments the museum through interactivity, personalization, user experience and richness of content. The virtual museums’ context is organized with the help of metadata, the data about the data. This paper presents the main metadata standards used by virtual museums and the qualitative results of an extensive survey conducted in the framework of the ViMM project for identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the main used metadata standards.

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Acknowledgements

The research was supported by the Virtual Multimodal Museums (ViMM) project, Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). The authors would like to thank Effie Patsatzi for her helpful advice on various issues examined in this paper and all the anonymous survey participants for their valuable feedback.

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  1. Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

    Stella Sylaiou

  2. National Documentation Center, Athens, Greece

    Elena Lagoudi

  3. CTS-UNINOVA and FCT/UNL, Costa da Caparica, Portugal

    João Martins

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  1. Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

    Marinos Ioannides

  2. American Art Collaborative Linked Open Data Initiative, Arlington, VA, USA

    Eleanor Fink

  3. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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  4. The Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  5. National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  6. CTS-UNINOVA, Caparica, Portugal

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  7. University of the Peloponnese, Tripoli, Greece

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Sylaiou, S., Lagoudi, E., Martins, J. (2018). Metadata Standards for Virtual Museums. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11196. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01762-0_42

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