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

How Can Other Museums Add Their Collections?

Step 1 in the process is to review the information contained in the MIMO Toolkit web site and consider whether your museum has the resources and technical expertise to offer digital content.

Step 2 is to download and complete the Content Checklist and submit this to MIMO for consideration. We will then contact you with follow up questions.

Step 3 is for your submission to be considered by the MIMO selection panel who will advise on whether we can add your content, if any additional work is required and a likely timescale. This panel meets annually.

Step 4 – if your request is accepted we will then issue a formal contract which will have to be completed before any content is uploaded.

What does it cost?

The cost of hosting MIMO content will be covered by the existing MIMO partners from 1st September 2011 for a five year period, until 31st August 2016, so there will be no hosting charge for new members during that period. Hosting costs after that will be split between the museums contributing at that point. Charges will be reviewed in Year 4 of the period covered by the initial agreement.

The only cost to new members to the consortium will be for technical support (i.e. advising, consultancy and testing) from the existing consortium, principally via the Cité de la musique in Paris. This will also include the cost of travel and subsistence should a member of the MIMO team be required to visit a new partner.

The precise amount of work involved will depend on the technical expertise of the new contributing museum but is likely to be in the region of 13 days’ work for technical staff at Cité de la musique.

Museums will have to cover their own internal costs, e.g. digitisation, database setup etc.