Introduction

• What is MIMO?
  - Background
  - What Happens Next?
• Getting Digital Content Online - The Harvesting Process
• Digitisation
• How Can Other Museums Add Their Collections? - Content Checklist
• Frequently Asked Questions
  

Technical and Legal Introduction

• Digitisation
• Harvesting Content
• Vocabulary and Thesaurus
• MIMO DB
• Legal Aspects
  

Technical Guidelines - Outcomes from the MIMO Project

• The MIMO Digitisation Standard
• Specifications for the Common Data Model for the Description of Musical Instruments
• Metadata Mapping and OAI-PMH Implementation Guidelines

Digitisation

The MIMO Digitisation Standard is now publicly available and it is our hope that it will be adopted as the worldwide standard by the global musical instrument community. The document offers guidelines in the following areas:

• General considerations on standards
• Scope – i.e. whether views of instruments are mandatory, recommended or optional
• Quality control – not only to ensure consistently high standards but also in order to facilitate repeat processes with a minimum amount of work and time
• A definition of master files, derivatives and digital preservation
• Web output formats (formats for derivatives) – images, audio and video
• Parameters for scanning existing images
• Parameters for digitising analogue audio documents
• Parameters for digitising analogue video documents
• Guidelines on photography, including:
  
  • Technical quality – file sizes and formats
  • Colour management
  • Lighting, background and mounting
  • Distortion
  • Post production tips and techniques
    
• The section on photographing musical instruments includes detailed guidelines for specific instruments and instrument groups, with definitions of positions and views and example images for each type.