Abstract :
Remote Access to Museum Archives (RAMA) is a RACE II project that began in January 1992. The RAMA Consortium is a combination of technical partners and museums. The technical partners are: Brameur (UK), Telefonica Sistemas (Spain), Telesystemes (France), Politecnica de Madrid (Spain), Eutelis (France), Comp-Art (Germany), L-Cube (Greece). The museums are: Ashmolean Museum (UK), Museo Archeological National (Spain), Prado Museum (Spain), Musee d´Orsay (France), Museon (Netherlands), Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Arts (Greece). The main aims of the project are: service provision piloting; service provision technology and standards support; and social and cultural impact. Within the service provision piloting area, RAMA´s main objective is the consolidation of efforts to open up the broadband services market. It addresses the segment where the service provider or the information owner is a cultural/educational organisation. The initial main target user group has been defined as `professional users´ (e.g. researchers, teachers, writers)
Keywords :
ISDN; computer networks; humanities data processing; information retrieval systems; Ashmolean Museum; Brameur; Comp-Art; Eutelis; France; Germany; Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Arts; Greece; ISDN; L-Cube; Musee d´Orsay; Museo Archeological National; Museon; Museum Archives; Netherlands; Politecnica de Madrid; Prado Museum; RACE II project; RAMA Consortium; Spain; Telefonica Sistemas; Telesystemes; UK; X25 networks; broadband services; cultural impact; cultural/educational organisation; information owner; researchers; service provider; service provision piloting; service provision standards; service provision technology; social impact; target user group; teachers; technical partners; writers;
