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

The Harvesting Process

MIMO aggregates the content of its partner museums databases (the column on the left) on a technical platform called "MIMO-DB” (centre column) so, using OAI-Protocol, MIMO-DB harvests musical instruments descriptive metadata, which conforms to the LIDO v1.0 model. Sounds, videos and images are sent to MIMO-DB using FTP.

MIMO-DB stores the records into an XML database and provides a web interface to search and retrieve musical instruments. In addition, MIMO-DB provides authorities management functionalities. An automatic “record enrichment" process is applied to the record just before it is ingested into MIMO-DB. This enrichment consists of a matching between specific record fields and terms of MIMO vocabulary and authorities. These authorities are hosted both by MIMO-DB and external sources, such as Geonames.

The following Authorities are hosted by MIMO-DB:

• Instrument makers ( persons, corporations and families )
• Instrument keywords
• Hornbostel & Sachs classification

In order to benefit from MIMO’s authorities, new data providers should, when possible, use these authorities in their own instrument records. They are also encouraged to add new authorities into MIMO-DB when needed.

MIMO-DB is in turn harvested by Europeana (the column on the right).

As a result of this technical architecture, MIMO-DB delivers the following 3 sets to Europeana:

• Musical Instrument Records
• Authorities and Vocabulary
• Images, Sound and Video file