Creating a Standards-Based Model for Sharing Cultural Heritage Collections Online: The CDWA Lite/OAI PMH Project Murtha Baca Head, Getty Vocabulary Program Getty Research Institute Karim Boughida Senior Information Systems Architect Getty Research Institute Ken Hamma Executive Director, Digital Policy and Initiatives J. Paul Getty Trust Bill Ying Chief Technical Officer ARTstor Nik Honeysett Manager, Web Group J. Paul Getty Trust The J. Paul Getty Trust and ARTstor have joined in a collaborative project to develop a standards-based way to express cultural heritage collection metadata and images and to expose them for automated sharing.  The key elements of this pilot project are a new descriptive metadata XML schema, "CDWA Lite," which was developed by the project partners and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH).  The project briefing will describe the value of the CDWA Lite schema as well as the intellectual and technical issues involved in creating the schema and mapping metadata from diverse collections to it.  We will also address the challenges of building and managing a project team with the necessary knowledge and skills to create the technical infrastructure and methodology to enable data providers to make their collections available in a standards-based way and for service providers to harvest authoritative, up-to-date, consistent metadata and digital images from contributors.  Based on lessons learned, the team will point to emerging guideposts that may make this an easier and more sustainable model for contributing to aggregated resources. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/cdwalite Fall 2005 Meeting Home Page     Fall 2005 Project Briefings     Fall 2005 Schedule