o:6785 Digitisation: standards landscape for European museums, archives, libraries en An overview of the different standards which are in use with the partners in the ATHENA project. Its content results from the information provided from the more than 20 partners from ATHENA coming from museums, libraries and archives, as well as ministries. Edited by ATHENA WP3 Working Group “Identifying standards and developing recommendations” Table of contents Introduction 1. Some basic concepts 1.1 Standard 1.1.1. Types of standards 1.1.2 Open standards 1.2 Digitisation 1.3 Interoperability 1.4 Metadata 1.4.1 Definition difficulties 1.4.2 Aspects of metadata 1.4.3 A ‘better’ definition? 2. Standards landscape 2.1 Describing standards 2.2 Information schemes (metadata) 2.2.1 Museum specific 2.2.2 Archive specific 2.2.3 Library specific 2.2.4 Historic environment specific 2.2.5 General heritage 2.2.6 Resource discovery 2.2.7 Document encoding 2.3 Multimedia formats 2.3.1 Text 2.3.2 Image 2.3.3 Audio 2.3.4 Video 2.3.5 Virtual reality 2.3.6 Vector graphics 2.4 Other technical standards 2.4.1 Search and retrieval 2.4.2 Transmission 2.4.3 Character encoding 3. Conclusions 3.1 Cultural metadata standards 3.2 Technical standards 4. Standards index {link}http://www.athenaeurope.org/index.php?en/1/home{/link} standards, digitisation, metadata, museum, archive, library, formats no 2012-02-17T11:58:57.645Z 44 no 1552095 Gordon Mckenna Collections Trust (UK) Chris De Loof Royal Museums of Art and History (Belgium) person Athena - Access to cultural heritage network across Europe institution 2012-02-16 application/pdf 303875 http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:6785 no no 5 70 3 6199 6505 CENTRI CAB digitisation: standards landscape for european museums, archives, libraries 110 p. ATNENA 2009-10-01