GOOD PRACTICE FORM FOR NOMINATIONS

We propose to start the activity of the workgroup on 'good practice' proposing an initial set of some main areas where to put the nominations. In particular we think to start with the basic issue of digitisation itself.
Each project can be 'nominated' for more than one area, following your evaluation of the most important features contained in the example.

AREAS for nominations of 'good practice' for on-going projects on digitisation:
1.	Preservation of physical objects via digitisation and electronic surrogates.
2.	High quality of the digitisation process.
3.	Metadata and Thesaurus.
4.	Usability of project results.
5.	Management of the process and workflow
6.	Accessibility including copyright issues and web sites

For each project please specify:

•	Area of 'good practice' where you like to nominate your project (you can put more than only one area):  Thesaurus

•	Name: ICONCLASS in Italian

•	Responsible body and/or any specific : ICCD 
Co-ordinating body/mechanism: IRDG (Iconclass Research and Development Group)

•	Contact person: Marco Lattanzi

•	Web site: www.iccd.beniculturali.it

•	Description of the project, objectives and priorities: Complete translation of iconcographic classification system ICONCLASS from English to Italian (40.000 subjects; more than 12.000 key words)

•	The main technical features for what you consider the project a 'good practice' example: 
A classification system  structured like a thesaurus in a multilingual version as a concrete experience of interoperability of different cultural data banks.

•	Long term sustainability strategy: interoperability of different data banks and a multilingual thesaurus structure on ISO standard

•	Accessibility by users via local network or Internet (describe modalities and IPR issue from a technical point of view): Accessibility via internet and local system

•	Problems encountered : equivalence ‘one to many’ from English to Italian

Comments: 

Figures and documents enclosed: see also www.iconclass.nl

I agree this information could be published/ Yes

                            X  Yes
                               No

Organisation & person completing the questionnaire

•	Formal name of organisation: Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione - Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

•	Type of organisation: public

•	Field of action:	Archive / Library / Museum / Foundation / others ….
Scheduling standards and documentation on Cultural Italian heritage

•	Address: Rome, via di San Michele 18 - Italy

•	Name of director: Arch. Maria Luisa Polichetti

•	Name and role of person completing the questionnaire: Marco Lattanzi

•	Tel: 0039/06/585521

•	Fax: 0039/06/58332313

•	Web site: www.iccd.beniculturali.it

•	E-mail: lattanzi@iccd.beniculturali.it

Date: 24/04/2002