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# Data exchange and museums
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/data-exchange-and-museums/
- Published: 2008-02-15T00:57:08.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:27:22.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Institutions, #MPOW, Systems

My colleague Günter Waibel [writes](https://hangingtogether.org/?p=368&ref=lorcandempsey.net) about a new RLG Programs project looking at the exchange of metadata between museum systems. Go to the [entry](https://hangingtogether.org/?p=368&ref=lorcandempsey.net) for more detail.

> With the generous support of a $145,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, RLG Programs will gather a select group of museum partners to accomplish the following: 
> 
> 1. Creating a low-barrier / no-cost batch export capability for CDWA Lite XML out of the collections management system used by the participating museums (GallerySystems TMS)
> 2. Modeling data exchange processes using the Open Archive Information Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) at the participating museums
> 3. Creating an aggregation of museum content within OCLC Research for analysis
> 4. Discussing the evidence about the relative utility of the aggregation with stakeholders from the museum, vendor and aggregator community
> 
> \[[hangingtogether.org](https://hangingtogether.org/?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]