In particular, attention has been given to questions regarding information structuring and normalisation of the language.
Cultural differences constitute a major obstacle to the definition of a common data schema.
It is therefore not surprising that several international organisations are currently studying this problem. In Aquarelle, however, additional complexity is caused by the need for simultaneous access to several distributed archives, based on different schemas and managed by different software in a heterogeneous hardware environment. We will describe how we have attempted to solve this problem. This profile, however, is designed for moveable objects, stored in museums. It is thus not suitable, as it stands, to describe unmoveable and complex objects, where certain attributes, such as geographic location, administrative boundaries and so on have great relevance.