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''From the [[TC 372 Workshop Compendium]]''
 
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Why is it that most cinematheques collect various things in addition to moving images?
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It often seems easier for libraries to share their catalogue with other libraries, for museums to share metadata with other museums, etc., than to connect different departments within a single institution. In-house metadata interoperability is still rarely achieved.
  
 
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Taking the idea of '''events as connectors''' a bit further, we could envision a resource that allows us to uniquely identify events. Such a resource would resemble what librarians call an ''authority file''.
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Why is it that most cinematheques collect various things in addition to moving images? It is because we tend to think of '''cinema''' as something that '''is embedded in a cultural context'''. How can we make our catalogues and other knowledge tools reflect this context?
 
 
Using a publicly available '''identifier for the''' Basel film '''festival''' would allow machines to find other resources referring to this event. This could be other films shown at the festival, posters like the one seen in the previous session, or any other materials such as press articles or photographs.
 
 
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Revision as of 18:05, 20 May 2011

From the TC 372 Workshop Compendium

It often seems easier for libraries to share their catalogue with other libraries, for museums to share metadata with other museums, etc., than to connect different departments within a single institution. In-house metadata interoperability is still rarely achieved.

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Why is it that most cinematheques collect various things in addition to moving images? It is because we tend to think of cinema as something that is embedded in a cultural context. How can we make our catalogues and other knowledge tools reflect this context?

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