>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven de Clercq [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 08 March 2000 15:51
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>Subject: Rejected [non-member submission] Re: Controlled terminology
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>>Dear list members,
>>
>>This subject is popping up on various disciplines. Also in natural
history,
>>botanic gardens, herbaria, etc.
>>I am sure the Dutch medical history museums are also interested.
>>
>>Colleagues may be interested in a project we, the four "classical" or
"old"
>>Dutch universities: Amsterdam, Leiden, Groningen and Utrecht (= National
>>Co-ordination Group Academic Heritage), have just completed: a national
>>inventory of the medical academic heritage in these universities (see
>>attachments).
>>
>>New is the approach to describe collections on the sub-collection level.
>>This proved to work very well and to be a very usefull first step.
>>In stead of speaking of thousands of objects, the now look at 160
>>sub-collections. These have all been entered in a especially developped
>>database. Our objective is to make these data available through Internet.
>>However, first we need to improve on what we have acchieved so far and of
>>course we need to translate the database into English. Plotting these
>>subcollections against their quality and occurence in the 4 universities
>>led to a "collection profile" which ca serve as future basis for
>>collectionplans etc.
>>
>>Describing collections on the sub-collection level has now been done in
>>three areas: the academic medical heritage; the geology collections from
>>four universities and and the entire collection of the Province of
Utrecht.
>>This latter project (MUSIP) has attracted so much government attention,
>>that the ministry wants to get that done for the entire country over the
>>next 4 to 5 years.
>>In fact the national policy in the Netherlands is to open up the cultural
>>heritage in a number of steps:
>>1. general information of the museums and other cultural sites etc. (with
>>links the museums)
>>2. informative layer with "MUSIP-type" information
>>3. metadatabase withinformation ondigitalised level
>>4. special link for education purposes.
>>
>>The MUSIP project also used the standardised AAT Getty thesaurus Jenny
>>Wetton from The Museum of Science and Industry mentions. One problem of
>>course being that this has been developped for art museums, which means
>>that our "scientific' field is left with rather "broad" descriptions.
>>
>>I would like to know whether collaegues are interested to join us in the
>>proces of up-grading the sub-collections database.
>>
>>Looking forward to your reactions,
>>
>>Steven de Clercq
>>senior consultant
>>National Co-ordination Group Academic Heritage
>>
>>Steven W.G. de Clercq
>>Straatweg 17
>>3603 CV MAARSSEN
>>Netherlands
>>
>>TELEPHONE: OO31-(0)346-57 83 18
>>FAX: 0031-(0)346-57 88 43
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