Speaker: Dr. Cary Karp Museum Domain Management Association Project Manager, MUSENIC Project MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)

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

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MUSENIC

A unique identifier on the Internetfor the global museum community

MUSENIC – The Museum Network Information Centre – Europe (IST-2001-33538)

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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

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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 ?

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Joined by .library and .archive?

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The story of the dot

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

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What are the benefits of a dedicated name space?

. enhanced visibility

. verifiable provenance

. professional authenticity

. contextual framework for global community

. future possibilities...

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ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)

Request for Proposals for a second round ofnew sponsored TLDs currently in preparation

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. library (or .biblio)

. archive

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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.

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http://musenic.museum/Cary Karp <[email protected]>

Kate Parson <[email protected]>

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http://about.museum/events/ifla2003/slides.ppt

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