the repository from an it point of view
DESCRIPTION
Presentation for the international workshop: Creating a digital research environment as a tool to enhance transnational and comparative research on European colonial built heritage (c. 1850-1970), November 18-20, 2012TRANSCRIPT
European colonial built heritageThe repository from an IT Point of View
Paul Suijker, 19-11-2012
“An institutional repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.”
Institutional repository(Wikipedia)
Institutional repository
Institutional repository
“A repository established to collect and preserve material in a particular discipline or subject is called a disciplinary repository or subject repository; they can be organized by a government, a government department, or by a research or academic institution, or be autonomous.”
“Some of the best known are arXiv for mathematics and physics articles or reports, PubMed Central for biomedical journal articles, and CiteSeerX for computer and information science articles and reports.”
Subject repository(Wikipedia)
Subject repository
Building a repository for:
• European built colonial architecture (subject)
• 1850-1970 (period)
Containing material:
• images, books, maps, articles, journals
• (information about) architects
• (information about) buildings
From different institutions in NL and abroad:
• KIT, KITLV, NAi, TU Delft Library, …
Project objective
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MODS example
• Repository with mixed content
• Images can well be described with MODS
• CDWA Lite not applicable for linking
• Disseminations to CDWA Lite can easily be made
Why MODS?
• images
• articles
• books
Repository architecture
Architect Building
• Name + initials
• Full name
• Date of birth, place/country of birth
• Date of death, place/country of death
• Nationality
• Education
• Website
Architect (fields)
• Wolff Schoemaker, C.P.
• Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker
• 1882-07-25, Banyu Biru, Indonesia
• 1949-05-22, Bandung, Indonesia
• Dutch
• Koninklijke Militaire Academie
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolff_Schoemaker
Architect (fields)
• Name, alternative name
• Architect
• Date
• Continent, country, city, street
• Geonames (geographical code)
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (subject codes)
• Coordinates
Building (fields)
• Villa Isola, Bumi Siliwangi
• Wolff Schoemaker, C.P.
• Asia, Indonesia, Bandung, Jalan Ranu Manggala
• -56.861 107.594, S 6°51'40" E 107°35'38"
• 1933
• gn:1650357 (GeoNameId)
• aat:300005517 (AAT subject code)
• aat:300021426 (AAT subject code)
Building (fields)
• images
• articles
• books
Repository architecture
Architect Building
Geonames
Getty AAT
• images
• articles
• books
Repositoryarchitecture
Architect Building
AAT concepts Geonames
AAT records “browser”
Software
• Drupal (website software)
• SOLR (indexing software)
• Islandora (middleware software)
• Fedora (repository software)
• JWPlayer (video player)
• Seadragon/Deep zoom (image/PDF viewer)
Software & Standards
Bibliographic descriptions
• MODS
• Dublin Core
Semantic web
• RDF (resource description framework)
• SKOS (simple knowledge organization system)
• FOAF (ontology describing persons)
Software & Standards