ETANA-DL(Electronic Tools and Near Eastern

Archives Digital Library)

Edward A. Fox, Virginia TechJames W. Flanagan, Case Western Reserve U.

AIA 106th Annual Meeting, Boston, Jan. 2005

fox@vt.edu http://fox.cs.vt.edu

http://fox.cs.vt.edu/talks/

Problems

Delay in publication of primary archaeological data Lack of sustainable solutions to long-term

preservation of valuable information Lack of services useful to the archaeology

community, including “traditional DL services” Difficulty in understanding complex archaeological

information systems Difficulty in requirements elicitation for archaeological

systems Interoperability among heterogeneous archaeological

systems

Solution – our approach

Applying and extending Digital Library (DL) techniques to solve the following problems: making primary data available, data preservation, and interoperability

Modeling archaeological information systems using 5S theory to better understand the domain and design the system and the supporting services

Rapidly prototyping DLs that handle heterogeneous archaeological data using componentized frameworks: eliciting requirements, providing useful services

ETANA-DL

Archaeological Digital Library Applies and extends the OAI-PMH

• Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Handling

Design considerations• Componentized• Distributed architecture• Extensible• Portable

Site Artifact Type Original data sourceNumber of

records harvested

Bab edh-Dhra’ Pottery cp6 database file 786

Lahav Figurine Tab-delimited text file 563

Madaba Locus field record Tables in Access DB 786

Mozan Publication PDF files 19

Nimrin

Bone field record Table in Oracle DB 7419

Seed field record Table in Oracle DB 429

Locus field record Table in Oracle DB 2101

Umayri Bone field record 2 tables in Access DB 2122

Total 18404

Heterogeneous data handling

ETANA-DL Searching ServiceSearch

ETANA-DL Multi-dimensional Browsing

3 new sites

2 new types of artifacts

ETANA-DL Visual Browsing Service

Visual BrowseBy site

Visual Browsing Nimrin: Topographical Drawings

Full site North west quadrant

Square:N40/W20

Visual Browsing Nimrin : Square information

Square:N40/W20

Locus: 86

Loci layout

Visual Browsing Nimrin : locus sheet

Visual Browsing Bab edh-Dhra' Cemetery

Pottery # 25

Visual Browsing Bab edh-Dhra' Cemetery

Pottery # 25

5S Archaeological DL Modeling

Modeling archaeological information systems

using the 5S theory to better understand the domain and design the system and the supporting

services

Digital Object

RepositoryCollection Minimal DL

Metadata Catalog

Descriptive Metadata

Specification

A Minimal DL in the 5S Framework

Structural Metadata

Specification

Streams Structures Spaces Scenarios Societies

indexing

browsing searching

services

hypertext

Structured Stream

Streams Structures Spaces Scenarios Societies

indexing

browsing searching

services

hypertext

Structured Stream

Descriptive Metadata

specification

SpaTemOrg

StraDia

Arch Descriptive Metadata specification

ArchDO

ArchObj

ArchColl

Arch Metadata catalog

ArchDColl ArchDR Minimal ArchDL

A Minimal ArchDL in the 5S Framework

Modeling ETANA-DL – An Archaeological DL Meta-model

Text Video Audio

*Site *Sub-partition *Container *Artifact*LocusRegion

Taxonomies

Temporal Artifact-specific

Space model

Structuremodel

Metadata

Drawing Photo 3DStreammodel

*Partition

Society model

Archaeologist

General public

Geographic space

Service Manager

Information Satisfaction

Value added

Repository buildingScenario

model Services

Domain specific

User interface Metric space

Spatial

Modeling ETANA-DL – ETANA Model

*Field *Pail *Bone*LocusJordan

Taxonomies

Space model

Structuremodel Field record,

locus sheet

Figurine image (photo)

Streammodel

Umayri

Society model

Archaeologist

Generic public

Site-specific coordinate system

Web interface Vector space

ETANA-DLService Manager

Searching, Browsing

Annotation, binding

Harvesting, Converting Scenario

model Services

Object comparison, marking item for analysis

Archaeologicalperiods

Bone type

Seed species

*Square

*Figurine

*Quadrant *Bag*LocusJordan Valley Nimrin *Square

*Field *Basket*LocusSouthern Israel Halif *Area*Seed

Site/field plan(drawing)

Preliminary/FinalReport (application/pdf)

Spatial

Overall objective of 5SGraph:Help users model their own instances of a digital library (DL) in the 5S language (5SL).

A simple modeling process which enables rapid generation of digital libraries is needed.

Support non-expert users. Speed-up development process. Increase the quality of final product.

5SGraph: A DL Modeling Tool

Goals of 5SGraph

To help digital library designers understand the 5S model quickly and easily

To help digital library designers build their own digital libraries without difficulty

To help digital library designers transform their models into 5SL files automatically

To help digital library designers understand, maintain, and upgrade existing digital library models conveniently

5SGraph

How does 5SGraph work?

5SGraph loads and displays a metamodel in a structured toolbox.

The structured editor of 5SGraph provides a top-down visual environment for the DL designer.

5SGraph produces correct 5SL files according to the visual model built by the designer.

Overview of 5SGraph

Workspace

(instance model)

Structured

toolbox

(metamodel)

Stream Model

Structure Model

Space Model

Scenario Model

Society Model

DiscoveryCurrent

AwarenessPreservation

Service Providers

Data Providers

Meta

data

harv

estin

g

The World According to OAI

Data and Service Providers

Data Providers possess metadata and share it (internally / externally) via well-defined OAI protocols (e.g., database servers)

Service Providers harvest data from Data Providers provide higher-level services to users (e.g., search engines)

Who will fit where in ETANA-DL? Data Provider – YOUR PROJECT Service Provider – ETANA-DL

Why be an OAI Provider

Speed up publication

Long-term preservation

Do not need to worry about providing services

How to be an OAI Provider

Requirements• Perl• Web server with ability to run CGI scripts

Download OAI-XMLFile-2.1.tar.gz fromhttp://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/software/xmlfile/xmlfile.html

Extract the files into a directory from which CGI scripts may be run • gunzip OAI-XMLFile-2.1.tar.gz• tar –xvf OAI-XMLFile-2.1.tar

How to be an OAI Provider (Cont.)

Want your pottery collection be an OAI data provider?

Create a director “mySitePottery” under ‘OAI-XMLFile-2.1/XMLFile’ • Copy the contents in test5 directory to

“mySitePottery” directory

Modify the config.xml under ‘OAI-XMLFile-2.1/XMLFile/mySitePottery’

<?xml version="1.0" ?>… <repositoryName> pottery repository name</repositoryName> <adminEmail> YourAdmin@yourServer </adminEmail> <archiveId> pottery Archive ID </archiveId> <recordlimit>500</recordlimit> <datadir> directory of pottery XML collection </datadir> … <metadata> <prefix> prefix of pottery repository </prefix> <namespace> namespace of your schema </namespace> <schema> location of your XML file schema </schema></metadata></xmlfile>

Apply the 5S Framework in Integrating Archaeological DLs

Architecture of a Union DL

Union Catalog Integration

Union Services Automation

Repository1

DL1

Repository2

Union Catalog

Union Repository

Catalog1 Catalog2

Searching

Union DL DL2

archaeologists

Society

General Public

Society

ArchaeologistsGeneral Public

Union Society

ServiceBrowsingService

Union Service

Harvesting, Mapping,Searching, Browsing,

Clustering, Visualization

Architecture of a Union DL

Union Catalog

VNCatalog

Union Catalog Integration

Virtual Nimrin(VN)

Halif DigMaster(HD)

HDCatalog

VN MetadataFormat

MappingTool

MappingTool

Global MetadataFormat

Wrapper

Wrapper

HD MetadataFormat

Visualizing Components

Mapper1

Composite Mapper

Mapper2 Mapper3 Mapper4

Visual Mapping Tool Architecture

local schema global schema

Mapping recommendation

Mapping confirmation

Mapping history

No recommendation for “Tomb_Area”

User-decided mapping

5S MetaModel

5SGraphDL

Expert

DL Designer

5SL DL

Model

5SLGen

Practitioner

Researcher

TailoredDL

Services

Teacher

componentpool

ODLSearch,ODLBrowse,ODLRate,ODLReview,

…….

Requirements (1) Analysis (2)

Implementation (4)

Design (3)

5SGraph 5SGen

Mapping Tool

5SSuite

5SGraph5S Archaeology

MetaModelArchDL Expert ArchDL Designer

VN Metadata Format

ETANA-DL Metadata Format

Mapping Tool

Wrapper4VN Wrapper4HD

HD Metadata Format

Inverted Files

Services DB

Index

Index

BrowseService

SearchService

Browse DB

OtherETANA-DL

Services

Web

Interface

XOAI

XOAI

VNCatalog

VNCatalog

UnionCatalog

Structure Sub-modelScenario

Sub-model

Harvesting description

Mappingdescription

Browsing description

…

5SGen

ComponentPool

Browsing…

Conclusions

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