Linking Databases to Websites

John Perkins and Margaretta Sander, Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information; Margaret St. Pierre and Jim Restivo, Blue Angel Technologies; Rob Stevenson, Mus*Soft; & Robin Dowden, Walker Art Center

Workshop
Wednesday, April 22, 1998
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Morning session - 9-12:30

Review of day - 9:10 - Stevenson

1. Static Site Management Techniques

• Overview of IIM - 9:20 - Sander
• Producing static pages from databases - 9:40 - Stevenson
• Operational issues of IIM - 10:30 - Sander

2. Dynamic Linking Collections Management Systems

Dynamic serving of pages - 11:00 - Dowden

• - what is being done
• - museum issues, mapping data, use 3 projects as examples: IAIA, AMICO, National Gallery

• technical how to
• more hardcore explanation
• difference between web-enabled databases and web interfaced by scripts
• show and intro tools to link any database to Web

Lunch - 12:30-1:30

Afternoon session - 1:30-5:00

• Intro to DC and need for metadata - 1:30 - JP
• AMICO as concrete example of using metadata - 1:50 - Dowden
• Managing Metadata - 2:10 - St. Pierre
• for purposes other than discovery
• tools, info management process, options

4. Search and Retrieve on the Web - 3:15 - Restivo

• JAVA and Z39.50
• what can be done

• how metadata and search and retrieval issues affect the process that occurs prior to the publication stage