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Speaker: Dr. Cary KarpMuseum Domain Management Association
Project Manager, MUSENIC Project
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
69th IFLA General Conference, Berlin, 1-9 August 2003
Visibility and Verifiability on the Internet: Top-Level Domains for Memory Institutions
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
MUSENIC
A unique identifier on the Internetfor the global museum community
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
The pilot initiative in establishing an explicitly labelled niche
for cultural and scientific heritagein the Domain Name System
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
Q – What are we really talking about?
A – Restricted top-level name spaces on the Internet as platforms for clearly bounded communities
http://something.museum/is a museum
http://something.net/ is ?
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
Joined by .library and .archive?
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
The story of the dot
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
What are the benefits of a dedicated name space?
. enhanced visibility
. verifiable provenance
. professional authenticity
. contextual framework for global community
. future possibilities...
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
Request for Proposals for a second round ofnew sponsored TLDs currently in preparation
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
. library (or .biblio)
. archive
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
Community initiative must be channeled through organisations such as
IFLA, ICOM and the ICA.
Formal sponsorship for a TLD can only be delegated to an organisation that is truly and globally
representative of its target community.
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
http://musenic.museum/Cary Karp <[email protected]>
Kate Parson <[email protected]>
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum
http://about.museum/events/ifla2003/slides.ppt
http://about.museum/ifla2003/[email protected]
MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)
http://musenic.museum http://about.museum