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What is CIMI?

April 26, 2017cimi

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What is CIMI?

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CIMI is the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information. Their home page is http://www.cimi.org/ CIMI’a approach is to foster standards: in particular “SGML for structuring information and Z39.50 for information interchange.” In particular, CIMI uses a TEI-based DTD (document type definition) for defining structured documents. It seems that they may be also keen on supporting the Dublin Core, to some extent (how?). The CIMI material includes some good mechanisms to feed post-production or session stages: for example “wall text” to accompany objects on display. The main one is the “access point” attribute. For querying, CIMI define a profile of Z39.50.