DOCUMENTING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SMALL MUSEUMS

- I agree that my paper may be available on-line to the conference web site and/or to the CIDOC web site (in pdf-format). Yes This paper describes requirements for documentation of collections in small museums and presents a CIDOC CRM-based IT solution. This solution has been elaborated by the Centre for Cultural Informatics in ICS-FORTH in close collaboration with a series of small museums and cultural institutions in Greece. A detailed, but generic XML Schema fully compatible with the CIDOC CRM model for museum object documentation and a light-weighted database solution called “Synthesis”, which can easily be adapted to special requirements, has been developed. In this paper we present the analysis of the generic schema employed, the system design and functions, and the experience from parallel development of the system for three fairly different clients