The Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the Internet (arts)
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 Charter 
 Last Modified: 01-Jun-95
 
 Current Status: Concluded Working Group
 
 Chair(s):
     Scott Stoner <stoner@artsedge.kennedy-center.org>
     Susan Siegfried <ssiegfried@getty.edu>
 
 User Services Area Director(s): 
     Joyce K. Reynolds  <jkrey@isi.edu>
 
 User Services Area Advisor: 
     Joyce K. Reynolds  <jkrey@isi.edu>
 
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Description of Working Group:
 
Draft 3/2 mw
Two IETF BOF sessions on arts and humanities issues resulted in a consensus by participants that the complexity of electronically capturing, cataloguing and accessing arts and humanities content requires expertise that is not widely available within the arts and humanities community, but represents a significant need that could be addressed by an IETF working group.  There is particular interest among IETF members to define a methodology, tools, and guidelines for the establishment of a clearinghouse (or multiple clearinghouses) that would show by example how and why the Internet can effectively store and showcase the wealth of information and resources comprising our world's cultural heritage.  The IETF's assistance would help to enrich both the arts and humanities and the broader community, and particularly help to constitute an online community that enjoys access as both consumer and producer of arts and humanities-based content.

The working group's mission is to guide the development of the infrastructure required in order that the arts and humanites community may create complex resources widely accessible on the Internet.

The goals of this working group include:

1) facilitate the use of the Internet as a mechanism for the arts and humanities to develop a knowledge base of research and information not now widely accessible electronically.

2) assist with the development of innovative technical tools (for example, templates) for the production and consumption of information, resources, and performance-based presentations that require unique protocols for electronic storage and retrieval.

3) define information content standards, any related technical requirements, and training that will be necessary for key arts and humanities constituencies to contribute information and resources to the Internet.
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Mar 95       Identify existing tools on the Internet that should be of value
                in guiding users to contribute to and/or access arts and 
                humanities resources, including the electronic storage and 
                retrieval of performance-based works of art.                   

   Jul 95       Review and compile additional existing tools, and define 
                functions or needs for which tools and guidelines will need to 
                be developed.  Post and Internet-Draft.                        

   Dec 95       Continue to identify, review, and add existing tools on the 
                Internet and issue additional Internet-Drafts as necessary.    

   Mar 96       Publish an FYI RFC as the result of this work which will be a 
                document that serves as a resource for expanding an arts and 
                humanities userbase on the Internet, as well as an initial plan
                for the further development of tools and protocols for 
                expanding the online knowledge base.                           


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.