DPE: Repository: Cornucopia : discovering UK collections, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)

Cornucopia : discovering UK collections, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)

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Descriptive Properties

Name: Cornucopia : discovering UK collections
Institution: Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)
Address:
Victoria House, Southampton Row, London WC1B 4EA
URL: http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/
Country: The United Kingdom
Description:

Cornucopia : Discovering UK Collections has been developed by MLA: The Council for Museums, Libraries and Archives. Cornucopia is a fully searchable online database of some 6,000 collections held by almost 2,000 cultural heritage institutions. It also allows those institutions to record and maintain collections descriptions and details using a Web-based direct data entry client. The site offers a 'quick search' (keyword) which returns an alphabetical list of museums where the collection-level description contains a match for the keyword. The full record for a museum includes address details; collection overview; brief description of the building; and any especially notable objects in the collection. Access is also provided by browse lists of People, Places, Subjects and Dates. An advanced search facility provides amongst other things a postcode based search and the option to search across other collections databases and Google concurrently using Web Services. Cornucopia data can be harvested via OAI-PMH and searched externally using SOAP. The site contains brief help pages, contact details and latest news. Details of the technical specification and development are also provided.

Languages:

  • English

OAI-PMH Properties

OAI-PMH status known? No
Supports OAI-PMH? No
OAI-PMH Metadata Streams:

    Technical Properties

    Z39.50 Support? No
    Has some full-texts? No
    Open Access? Yes
    Access Rights:
    Available to all
    Legal Mandate to Preserve? No
    Ingest Policy:

    Long Term Preservation Strategy:
    no

    Administrative Properties

    Uploaded: 4 October 2007 by DRAI
    Last Edited: 4 October 2007 by DRAI

    Quarantine Status: Not quarantined