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

Getting Digital Content Online - The Harvesting Process

In order to enable digital content to be harvested by MIMO, museums must ensure that their systems are compatible with those used by the original members of the project consortium.

MIMO stores its records on a repository held by Cite de la musique in Paris, which we refer to as MIMO-DB, and from there information is harvested by Europeana. To enable this, each museum must have its own database which can be harvested using OAI-Protocol. Records must be mapped to the MIMO-DB data model using ICOM's LIDO XML Schema for museum data interchange.