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403:) describes the content of art databases by articulating a conceptual framework for describing and accessing information about works of art, architecture, other material culture, groups and collections of works, and related images. The CDWA includes 532 categories and subcategories. A small subset of categories are considered core in that they represent the minimum information necessary to identify and describe a work. The CDWA includes discussions, basic guidelines for cataloging, and examples. 187: 289: 129: 63: 22: 465:
to describe core records for works of art and material culture based on CDWA and the Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) content standard. The schema was created because of the absence of a data content standard specifically designed for unique cultural works and a technical format for expressing this
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Formed in the early 1990s, the task force was made up of representatives from the communities that provide and use art information: art historians, museum curators and registrars, visual resource professionals, art librarians, information managers, and technical specialists. The work of the AITF was
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The CDWA was created by the Art Information Task Force (AITF), which encouraged dialog between art historians, art information professionals, and information providers so that together they could develop guidelines for describing works of art, architecture, groups of objects, and visual and textual
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The use of the CDWA framework contributes to the integrity and longevity of data and facilitates its inevitable migration to new systems as informational technology continues to evolve. It also helps to give end-users consistent, reliable access to information, regardless of the system in which it
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The Categories provide a framework to which existing art information systems are mapped and upon which new systems can be developed. In addition, the discussions in the CDWA identify vocabulary resources and descriptive practices that will make information residing in diverse systems both more
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These guidelines, in theory, provide a common ground for reaching an agreement on what information should be included in art information systems and what information will be shared or exchanged with other institutions or systems. The CDWA framework is targeted towards curators, registrars,
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data in a machine-readable format. CDWA Lite records are intended for contribution to union catalogs and other repositories using the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting protocol. The CDWA Lite schema has been enlarged and integrated into the
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Indiana University Digital Library Program; Metadata Librarian Jenn Riley; 2007 handout.
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http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/introduction.html
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CDWA Lite and Museumdat: New Developments in Metadata Standards
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2008 Annual Conference of CIDOC; Regine Stein and Erin Coburn.
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researchers, information managers, and systems vendors.
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Data Harvesting and Interchange Working Group (CIDOC)
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Choosing a Metadata Standard for your Digital Project
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