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Aquarelle: The Information Network on the

Cultural Heritage

CENTRE FOR CULTURAL INFORMATICS CENTRE FOR CULTURAL INFORMATICS AND DOCUMENTATION SYSTEMSAND DOCUMENTATION SYSTEMS

Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas

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WWW

man-made object

chronometer

hourglass wall clock

cup

TypeArtificial Object

Pot

made for

hasspecificuse

Pot PT 417

used forArtificial Object Type Action Type

storage

Source management Turkish Archive of Chania ARCHON

Data models and standards ICOM/CIDOC CLIO

Cultural information systems DELTOS CLIO POLEMON MAISTOR INTERREG II

Distribution and access HYPERTOUR AQUARELLE POLEMON

Thesaurus systems SIS - TMS

CENTRE FOR CULTURAL INFORMATICS AND CENTRE FOR CULTURAL INFORMATICS AND DOCUMENTATION SYSTEMSDOCUMENTATION SYSTEMS

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Aquarelle: The Project

Objectives: Ressource Discovery on cultural heritage Navigation & Querying on heterogeneous distributed databases

Legacy cultural information sources Creation of derived multimedia products

Narratives on specific themes gathering links to relevant pieces of original information

Consortium: 26 Partners: cultural institutions, publishers, IT companies, research

institutions Duration: 3 years, 1996-1998

Final Prototype (Release 2.0) available online in four countries: UK, FR, IT, GR

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Aquarelle: The Vision

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Aquarelle: Scenario of Use

Retrieval: Query & Navigate Discover resources of interest Formulate queries using a flat vocabulary of Z39.50 access points

and multilingual terminological support Browse in the results Maintain a workspace of links

Authoring: Assemble & Correlate & Annotate Use a new, old or prototype folder Index by local/ controlled term assignment Publish, Republish or Unpublish folders Continue Retrieval/Authoring Cycles

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Aquarelle: The Architecture

UserInterface

ArchiveServer

HTML/ XML browser/viewer

SGML/XML Editor

Authoring System

QueryResults

Z39.50Query

Folder Publish/Fetch

Folder LinkManagement

Reader System

Copy and past

Links

User Client

AQLQuery

SIS-CFC

PublishFetch

FTR

Folder Server front-end

Z39.50Gateway

Z39.50Gateway

Legacy Database

FolderServer

AccessServer

Access Server API

LinkServer

User Client ServerSIS-TMSServer

SIS-TMSEditor

HTML (brief) SGML (full)

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Aquarelle: ICS-FORTH Responsibility

Multilingual Terminology Support (WP7) Cooperative Management of Multilingual Thesauri Terminology servers as search aid

SGML Folders Management (WP6) Semi - Structured Document Repositories Uniform Access to Distributed and Heterogeneous Folders

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Local system

Central Authority

Local system

interthesaurus links

G U I /AccessServer

searchaid

updates updates queries

Term Server

TMS TMS

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Aquarelle: Multilingual Terminology Support

Descriptor BTBT

AATDescriptor

AATAAT BTBT MERIMEE TGMERIMEE TG

RTRT

AAT RTAAT RT MERIMEE TAMERIMEE TA

generalization/specialization

Generic Schema

MERIMEE SchemaAAT Schema

MERIMEEDescripteur

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Z390.50/SIS Gateway Full Text Retrieval

SGMLElement talks about

has components inter/intra thesaurus links

SGML Metamodel Thesaurus Metamodel

ThesaurusNotion

AATNotion MERIMEENotion

SubjectHierarchyNotion

EQ

CI DTD

FrTerme`ABBEY

CIMI DTD

EnTerm`abbeys

cognac

highlands

Folder Server front-end

Central Folder Catalogue

fetch

Z39.50 queryfolder

publish/unpublish/republish

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save

Z39.50 query result sets

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Aquarelle: Storing Semi-Structured FoldersP

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SGMLElement

NonTerminal Terminal

PermutationModel ChoiceModel AggregationModel

GroupModelPrimitiveModel

ContentModelMixedModel

``optionalComponent’’

``repeatedComponent’’

``optional-repeatedComponent’’

DeclaredModel

ElementModel

``modelComponent’’

Textual

StringType

``elmContent’’

M1_Class

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Aquarelle: Exploitation

Regional information networks, e.g. SCRAN National Information Networks, e.g. French Minister of Culture New market-oriented projects, e.g. Hypermuseum Contacts for deployment in Canada, Japan, Australia, etc. Interoperability with CIMI (Consortium for Computer Interchange of

Museum Information)

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A. Michard and V. Christophides and M. Scholl and M. Stapleton and D. Sutcliffe and A-M. Vercoustre. "The Aquarelle Resource Discovery System". In Journal of Computer Networks And ISDN Systems, 30(13), pages 1185-1200, August 1998, Elsevier Science.

Y. Velegrakis and V. Christophides and P. Constantopoulos. "Declarative Specification of Z39.50 Wrappers". In Proc. of the ECDL'99, pages 381-402, Paris, France, September 1999.

M. Doer and I. Fundulaki. “SIS-TMS: A Thesaurus Management System for Distributed Digital Collections”. In Proc. of the ECDL'98, pages 215-234, Heraklion, Crete, Geece, September 1998, Springer-Verlag.

V. Christophides and M. Doer and I. Fundulaki. "A Semantic Network Approach to Semi-Structured Documents Repositories". In Proc. of the ECDL'97, pages 305-324, Pisa, Italy, September 1997.

The French AS http://gouache.inria.fr The English AS http://aqua.rl.ac.uk:8200 The Italian AS seal4.cnuce.cnr.it:8200 The Greek AS aqua.intrasoft.itel.gr:8200 & http://cuckoo.csi.forth.gr:8200

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