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• Creating a wiki

  List of sites that provide free wiki hosting and clear guidelines for the set-up and content management of wikis: collaborative websites allowing users to edit and add content without using HTML.

• Saskatchewan Arts Board

  From the Web site: "We provide grants to artists, arts organizations, and cultural workers. We collect, preserve, lend, and rent art objects. We provide advice to artists and arts organizations..."

• Museum Computer Network (MCN)

  From the Web site: "The Museum Computer Network is a nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies. We serve individuals and institutions wishing to improve their means of developing, managing, and conveying museum information through the use of automation."

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

  From the Web site: "The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices."

• International Council of Museums (ICOM)

  From the Web site: "The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is dedicated to the development of museums and the museum profession, and operates globally for the preservation of cultural heritage. Committed to the promotion and facilitation of professional cooperation, ICOM is a worldwide network for museum professionals of all disciplines and specialisations."

• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

  From the Web site: "The CRTC is an independent agency responsible for regulating Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications systems."<BR>

• DOCAM Technological Timeline

  The DOCAM Technological Timeline "is designed to show, in clear and graphic form, the ways in which art history and the history of technological invention run alongside each other". Although it is not an exhaustive history of technology used to produce artworks, it illustrates the "complex relationship between the history of technology and the development of media-based art forms".
  
  Although the timeline itself is available only in English, presentations about the timeline are available in English (http://www.docam.ca/en/technological-timeline.html) and in French (http://www.docam.ca/fr/timeline-des-technologies.html).

• ISO21000/MPEG-21

  MPEG-21 is a multimedia framework, developed by the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG), is designed to "enable transparent and augmented use of multimedia resources across a wide range of networks and devices used by different communities" It has a similar function to METS, in that it provides a framework for structuring sets of metadata and files representing complex digital resources (in particular, audio and video files).<br/>MPEG-21 includes a Rights Expression Language and a structure for a data dictionary. It allows the integration of the processes required to generate, manipulate, use, manage, and deliver multimedia files. MPEG-21 includes elements to support identification and description of digital resources, handling and usage of content, intellectual property management and protection, etc. It is intended to be machine-actionable (able to be used with hardware and software that will enforce licence provisions). Available in English only.

• WIPO Guide on Managing Intellectual Property For Museums

  From the Web site: "Museums, and the broader cultural heritage community, now have access to a new guide to help them use the intellectual property (IP) system to improve the management of their collections in the digital environment. The "WIPO Guide on Managing Intellectual Property for Museums" recognizes the important role that IP plays in providing access to collections, and in preserving and managing the valuable works they contain. A printed version of the Guide will be available shortly."

• General Terms and Conditions for Goverment of Canada - September 2008 | Virtual Exhibits Investment Program

  General Terms and Conditions for Goverment of Canada