The Final MILE
Just back from the last of a series of conferenes organised by the MILE (Metadata Image Library Exploitation) project in the beautifully restored German city of Dresden.
For the last couple of years Collections Trust has participated in the MILE project which reached at least its public end with a day conference in Dresden’s Conference Centre on the banks of the River Elbe. The project has aimed to promote European cultural heritage and make digital art more accessible by improving metadata being held and supplied to image libraries. The project is led by the Bridgeman Art Library and has involved the key stakeholders from all over Europe.
To quote from the project website:
“Image libraries are treasurers of a vast wealth of Europe’s cultural heritage. In the rush to digitise their archives of reprographic transparencies of original works of art, to keep up with increasing technological trends, the systems used to create the metadata supporting these images have struggled to sustain such demand.”
Conferences and seminars have dealt with topics such as:
- Orphan works;
- How to deal with image rights;
- Metadata schema mapping;
- How to increase the potential of image collection through improving multilingual access;
- IPR frameworks and solutions;
- Semantics and semiotics;
- Successful searching;
- The Bridgeman versus Corel case.
Our input relfected our experience in standards and IPR with members of staff giving presentations on these topics and taking part in discusions.
I took part in a project roundtable where we discussed the final report of the project.
Tags: IPR, orphan works
