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