The repository from an IT point of view

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

<titleInfo><title>Plattegrond van Batavia</title><subTitle>Schaal 1:20000</subTitle>

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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