French-ItalianDigital collections Portal

PASS Technologie23 rue Pierre et Marie Curie94200 Ivry-sur-Seinecontact@pass-tech.fr

Jean-Pierre DalbéraMuriel FoulonneauPierre DittgenNader Boutros

DEMO VERSION

French catalog

Italian catalog

Catalog features

● Those catalog applications are built using XToGen and SDX allowing:– Easy browsing (list and through documents)– Enhanced administration backoffice

● Excel data import/export● Document copy● External list edition● PDF booklet export

– Integration of existing look and feel– Complex document support– Full UTF-8 interface– Meta data support– VCF contact export

Catalog data

● French catalog– Documents are all in french– Managed documents are of two types:

● Établissements (institutions)● Fonds (funds)

● Italian catalog– Documents are all in italian– Managed documents are of four types:

● Institutions● Projects● Services● Collections

Data mapping 1/2

Etablissement

Fonds

Institution

Project

Collection

Service

FR IT

Data mapping 2/2

● 5 mapping links● Each mapping is done between two fields● Each field is associated to one native

authority list● A matching table per mapping defines

associations between values coming from the french and the italian lists

Portal application

Portal features

● Gathers data from two different applications● Transparent browsing and searching even if:

– No 1 to 1 matching between document types– No 1 to 1 matching between authority lists values

● Full-text and advanced search● Result documents are

– identified by type and source– displayed in their local application

● Full multilingual interface (fr, en, it)

FR

OAI approachperspectives

FR metadata

metadata

OAIHARVESTPROCESS

catalog

Nationaldocuments bases

OAI DC metapublishing

OAI DC metaharvesting

Various usages (portal, ...)

ITITITIT

OAI advantages

● Better application independancy● Applications can be really remote● Application data can be very heterogeneous● New application can simply be added into the

portal● OAI is a standard allowing to use OAI tools

from different vendors to handle application meta data

XToGen and SDX

● All these applications are made with XToGen and SDX

● SDX is available at http://sdx.culture.fr● It includes OAI features since 2.2 version

(soon released)● XToGen is a SDX application generator

engine, available at http://xtogen.tech.fr● It will includes OAI before end 2003● Both are free software sponsored by French

Ministry of Culture and Communication