The intention of matterhorn.tools is to unite all information about Matterhorn METS and the Matterhorn RDF Data Model at one central location. The two models for archival metadata have been co-developed by Alain Dubois ( Valais State Archives ) and Tobias Wildi ( docuteam, now Fachhochschule Graubünden, Swiss Institute for Information Science ). The goal of the models is to improve contextualization in archival description by implementing the archival standards of the International Council on Archives (ICA)
The work for Matterhorn METS started in 2008 with the goal to substantiate and implement the OAIS information model and the ICA-standards for archival metadata in one XML-based model. This model should be generic enough that it could be used not only in archival contexts but also in libraries, museums and for archiving research data. The result of this work was a specification (in german only) and a formal METS-Profile which was registered at the Library of Congress in 2012. The model could be presented at
The design work for the Matterhorn RDF Data Model started in 2015 when it became clear that an XML-based standard is not sufficient to model the relations between the different ICA-standards ISAD(G), ISAAR(CPF) and ISDF. We saw the relations between the content-, agent- and business process-description as the crucial part for improving the contextualization of archival description. Furthermore an XML-notation for ISDF was completely lacking and we saw no group in the international archival community working