A Repository of Cultural Heritage Objects: Criteria of Annotation and Archiving Carina Kargl &...
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A Repository of Cultural Heritage Objects: Criteria of Annotation and Archiving
Carina Kargl & Elisabeth Steiner
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung –Austrian Centre for Digital HumanitiesUniversität Graz
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Outline
o About the projecto Resourceso Structure & features web portalo Challenges & approacheso Metadata categories and their annotation
„Repository of Styrian Cultural Heritage“
o 2014-2016o Financed by the Federal Ministry
(„Hochschulraumstrukturmittel“)o Cooperation partners
- University of Graz (lead partner)- University of Technology Graz- University of Music and Performing Arts Graz- GrazMuseum- Universalmuseum Joanneum - Styrian Provincial Government
about the project
„Repository of Styrian Cultural Heritage“
o Aims at the processing, protection, publication and accessibility of digitized Styrian cultural and scientific heritage
o Builds a network of institutions and collections
o Raises awareness for digital agenda o Creates a common web portal
about the project
Digitized Resources
o Manuscripts (medieval to modern)o Postcards and letterso Archival recordingso Historical photographs and lantern slideso Museum objects
- Criminological- Archaeological- Numismatic- …
resources
Diverse materials and partners
resources
Functionalities web portal
o Search- simple, full-text, facetted, advanced
o Visualizations- maps, timelines, collections, networks…
o Virtual exhibitions and showcases- „digital strolling“, teaser
structure & features
o Long-term preservation strategieso Search through all collections within the
portal
o Approaches- Flexible preservation repositories- Interfaces- Harvesting- Data mapping
Heterogeneous technical infrastructures
challenges & approaches
Heterogeneous content & metadata
o disciplines, terminology and traditions
o inventory vs. deep annotationo old and non-systematic annotations
o Approaches- homogenisation of metadata core categories required
for the web portal- quality control- controlled vocabularies
challenges & approaches
Metadata core categories
Category
institution controlled list
time ISO 8601 (JJJJ-MM-TT)
place GeoNames, TGN
person GND, VIAF
object type controlled list (manuscript, postcard, etc.)
media type text, image, audio, video
short description/title meaningful & explicit
categories
Other „challenging“ categories
Category
material controlled vocabulary
measurements/format
measurement units, separator, …
keywords controlled vocabulary
transcription distinction between information about & information from an object
historical terms
categories
Summary
o Complex task: > acknowledge diversity but get to a common denominator
o More challenges to come, but: similar problems for all partners and collections
o Communication & advice are crucial!
