| N. Drosopoulos, V. Tzouvaras, N. Simou, A. Christaki, A. Stabenau, K. Pardalis, F. Xenikoudakis, E. Tsalapati and S. Kollias |
| An aggregation system for cultural heritage content |
| CIDOC Conference, September 2011, Sibiu, Romania |
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ABSTRACT
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| Ongoing activities for the digitisation, cataloguing and preservation of cultural heritage are taking place in Europe and the rest of the world. They involve a variety of content holding institutions, following the established practices of museums, libraries and archives. In parallel, aggregation and indexing initiatives, such as Europeana, illustrate the benefits and added value of metadata interoperability for repository owners and the end user. Respective modeling efforts are directed in facilitating the aggregation of diverse, and mostly proprietary, metadata records under well-defined, machine understandable, reference data models. The mapping and transformation procedure is rarely a straightforward task, varying according to the existing infrastructure and data, while requiring the continuous involvement of domain experts and content providers. In this paper, we present an intuitive platform that offers a set of web services to manage the aggregation of metadata records, effectively handling the complexity of mapping cases and the need to maintain and evolve the alignment of content holding repositories. The architecture and interfaces of the system are outlined, focusing on ingestion management, the mapping editor and available functions, the resulting repository and respective publishing interfaces. The system is currently deployed for several European and national aggregation and digitisation projects, as well as for prototyping efforts regarding LIDO and the Europeana Data Model.
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| 07 September, 2011 |
| N. Drosopoulos, V. Tzouvaras, N. Simou, A. Christaki, A. Stabenau, K. Pardalis, F. Xenikoudakis, E. Tsalapati and S. Kollias , "An aggregation system for cultural heritage content", CIDOC Conference, September 2011, Sibiu, Romania |
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