Connecting different ethnomusicological archives with ethnoArc

Maurice MengelMusic Archive of the Ethnological Museum, National Museum in Berlin (EMEM)

Technical challenges and developments in 21st century folk music archivingBudapest, 11.06.2008

1 Network architectures (OAI)2 Semantic information retrieval

(Semantic Web)3 ethnoArc

From simple networks to the OAI

Interoperability "the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged“

(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE Standard Computer Dictionary: A Compilation of IEEE Standard Computer Glossaries. New York, NY:

1990)

Interoperability?

Archive

Userexchange

TYPE 1 (typical early library network)

data repository

single metadata structure

several clients for data input

several clients for data output

TYPE 2 (“meta network structure”)

common metadata structure S3

clients for data input

local data

repositorylocal data

repository

clients for data input

local metadata structure S1

local metadata structure S2

commondata

repository

clients for data output

Variation with distributed searches

internal metadata

ethnoArc

DISMARC

BAMPortal

GBV

different archive users have different requirements

re-use of existing infrastructures (e.g. GBV)

to avoid maintenance of own webOPAC not very much work (reuse) …

Since 1990s; e-print community Open Archive Initiative Protocol for

Metadata Harvesting (OPI-PMH)

Source: http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/english/page2.htm

Multiple Service Providers

Aggregators

Semantic Web

future of the WWW Tim Berners-Lee in 1990s Web of Data Famous stack model

Source: http://www.w3.org/2000/Talks/1206-xml2k-tbl/slide10-0.html

None of semantic web technologies, but comes with explicit semantic layer

rich metadata concept

EU funded in IST FP6 September 2006- August 2008 Participants

Fraunhofer FOKUS (technology) 4 ethnomusicological archives (Berlin,

Bucharest, Budapest, Geneva) Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin

(Coordination) New Europe College, Bucharest (Evaluation)

Researcher tool for users of ethnomusicological archives

Accessibility to heterogenously structured archives

Distributed approach, no central server Main results: ethnoMARS software

Query builder MD structures visualizer Result windows