Gunter Waibel chairs a session with Alan Seal (Victoria & Albert Museum) and Michael Jenkins (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) are updating us on the activities at their institutions using CDWA-lite and OAI as mechanisms for exchanging information. Jean Goodby will then talk about the role of these protocols in the broader information discovery environment.

Alan Seal: at the V&A the data format and the protocol were part of an overall strategy to surface data and images from the entire collection on the web, to meet their director's desire to see their work s show up in a google search. They are creating URIs for all of their catalogue records to support web searching. CDWA-lite is a useful integration tool.

Michael Jenkins: scholars licence as a real test of the use of the protocol, to make images from the MMA available to scholars for academic use, using ArtStor as a means of delivery. ArtStor developed the tech tools. At the MMA, CDWA-lite data structure was used as the mechanism to move data from the many collections management databases (one system, departmental implementations) to metmuseum.org

Jean Goodby: OCLC is developing a crosswalk web service that might offer translations between metadata formats. they are interested in what it might look like to surface museum materials in the context of resources like WorldCat (bibliographic data). For example, Worldcat searches could surface books about artists, paintings or periods, WorldCat Identities could cluster materials around artists (by focusing on names), facilitiating browsing. linkages could then be made among and across resources.

jt; but in all of this, we're still moving data around, rather than linking to the museums' data where it's created and found, where the museums can provide context, and where the museum can see how much the data is used. we need to think about a web-services based environment where museums are more open about their data, enabling its creative use and re-use.