Pilot Projects

In order to assist in the implementation of ideas that emerged during the April 2006 meeting, the Foundation invited proposals for pilot projects to address a primary challenge for the museum community: the formulation of a coordinated effort to create new digital assets that are readily able to interface with those of other institutions. 

Descriptions of current pilots can be found here:

The British Museum (Mellon pilot)

The Courtauld Institute of Art (Mellon pilot)

The J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty pilot)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Mellon pilot)

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Mellon pilot)

The National Gallery, London (Mellon pilot)

The Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) (Mellon pilot)

Mellon Digital Documentation Project (MDDP) Wiki - a forum for the exchange of technical ideas and developments related to the Mellon initiative in conservation documentation and its pilot projects. (Note: this site requires user name and password, available from the site's administrator). 

Several other projects are under development, and summaries will be posted in due course.