www.academischecollecties.nlportal to Dutch academic heritage
Saskia van Bergen & Henriette Reerinkin commission of the Dutch Heritage Foundation (SAE)
[email protected]@uva.nl
‘Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler’
Einstein
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COLLECTION Hugo de VriesThe collection consists of 2 Sammelbände with in total 48 offprints which can be identified as from the personal library of De Vries. One volume has an index written in his hand.
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1. cross sectoral cooperation: 2 museums and 3 libraries
2. collection descriptions (context) in EAD format3. use of international metadata standards4. international exchange (Europeana, ArchiveGrid)5. raise awareness, knowledge sharing, training6. build an “easy” infrastructure7. reach the generally interested public
Fedora
• metadata items (CDWA Lite)• images (jpeg’s) items
Xhive DB
• collections (EAD)• stories
jpeg’s
met
adat
a ite
ms
conversions / mappings
image databases UNICUM partners
UNICUM partners
end users UNICUM
collectionkeepers
XTF
ArchiveGridOCLCRCE
(DiMCoN)
Europeana
back
-end
fron
t-en
dpu
blic
metadata items
repositoryitems
XMLCMS
searchengine
• collections• items + images• stories
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Cake Walk
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• Strong commitment, but different interests and priorities• Cooperation to get funding or to go along with the flow• Different levels of knowledge• Technical infrastructure
• No harvesting of the individual institutions• Formulation of a business model is part of the project• Standards and Metadata
Challenges
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• The portal is harvested (→ RCE → Europeana)
• The contributing partners still work with periodic exports
Challenges: Harvesting (items)
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• Organisational structures
• Financial expectations
• Operational processes
Challenges: Business modelPrecondition: (temporary) advantages of the portal for each of its contributors
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•Standards
•Descriptive metadata
•Conversion and mapping
Process
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Standards: collections- EAD
Testsite
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Standards: identifiers
Collections: ISIL
example: NL-LdnUBL-identifier partner institution
http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/informatiebeheer-archiefvorming/isil
Items:URN
example : urn:nbn:nl:ui:36-ubl-identifier partner institution
http://wiki.surffoundation.nl/display/standards/Registration+Catalog+urn-nbn-nl-ui
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Standards:items- CCO and CDWA Lite
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Content standard: CCO
<cdwalite:displayMaterialsTech> pen and sepia ink on laid paper; watermark: star in circle with cross (Briquet 6088) </cdwalite:displayMaterialsTech>
Data structure standard: CDWA Lite
Standards:items- CCO and CDWA Lite
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‘This is the way our metadata will be published on the website. Are we happy with this result?’
Standards:items-descriptive metadata
Testsite
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Standards:controlled vocabulary
•Raising awareness- AAT-NBC
•Metadata clean-up
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Conversion and mapping
Manual data curation?
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Conversion and mapping
http://europeanalabs.eu/sip-creator/
http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
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Pitfalls and lessons learned
•Make sure the success of the project is important for all partners
•No interface or data set is perfect
•Don’t operate over the heads of the partner institutions, work together
•To talk is good, to act is better
•Take away the barriers for participation
•Take a personal approach: ‘Humanise’ your language and interface, give custom advices and mappings
• Keep your focus
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