A metadata-based content analysis for digital library

Computing Centre

Academia Sinica

18 August, 2001

Supportive boundary

• It supports 16 subject projects of the Digital Archive Pilot Project for cultural heritage sponsored by the NSC in Taiwan from 2001.

• It also supports 4 projects of the Digital Museum Pilot Projects for popular science education from 1999.

• They (20) are a very diversity of heterogeneous.

Projects - 1

• Digital Chinese Rubbings

• Name Authority Files for Persons

• Digital Library of Archaeological Data

• Digital Library for Rare Books

• Digital Library for Ethnological Specimen, Photos, and Archives

• Taiwan Aborigine: Ping-pu group

Projects - 2

• Digital Library of Taiwan Herbarium of Botany

• Zoological Research of Taiwan: Fish and Mollusks

• Digital Library Project of National Museum of History

• Taiwan Memory Digital Photo Museum

Projects - 3

• Digital Video Library Project• Corpus Project for Sinitic and Nan-Dao• Digital Library Project of National Palac

e Museum: Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy

• Digital Library Project of National Palace Museum: Chinese jade, china, enamel, lacquer works, and so on.

Projects – 4

• GIS Project for Chinese Historical Maps

• Digital Archives Project of the Office of Governor-General in Taiwan

• Digital Library Project for Official Economic and Diplomatic Archives

• Knowledge Base of Taiwanese Earthquake

Attributes of these Projects1st – data types and styles (1)

• Chinese rubbings

• Rare books

• Archives (modern and historical files for the diverse purposes, such as economy, foreign affairs, ancient administrative documents in Ming and Ching Dynasty)

• Corpus – modern language, poetry, etc.

Attributes of these Projects1st – data types and styles (2)

• Artistic works at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, such as Chinese paintings, calligraphy, jade, china, enamel, lacquer works, and so on

• Specimen – fish, plants in Taiwan

• Field works

• Films and photos

Attributes of these projects2nd – research disciplines

• Arts and the humanities– Aboriginal study / Ethnology– Archaeological study– Arts– Linguistics– History– Chinese literature, such as poetries in Tang and

Sung Dynasty

• Social Sciences– Economy– Diplomatic affairs

• Bio-diversity

Attributes of these projects3rd - functionality

• Description• Resources discovery• Filtering• Exhibition• E-Preservation• Rights-Management• Organizational Management• Others

Attributes of these projects4th - communities

• Archives

• Libraries

• Museums

• Herbaria

A Content Analysis Modelin Sinica

Data Types and Styles

Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Herbaria

Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Bio-diversity

Description, Preservation, Exhibition, etc.

Data layer

Discipline layer

Functionality layer

Community layer

One exampleChinese paintings at the NPM

RepairExhibitionDescriptionResource discoveryPreservation

Functionality Data types and styles Discipline

Arts

Original works

Copy - Photos

Copy -Digital

Museum

Ref. DB GIS DBArtist DB

Characteristics of this model

• Two kinds of relationships should be re-examined– Logical – for disciplinary domains and

concepts– Physical – for different material’s objects

• Workflow could be re-engineered once again.

Adopt the IFLA’s FRBR Model

WORK

EXPRESSION

MANIFESTATION

ITEM

Is realized through

Is embodied in

Is exemplified by

From: IFLA FRBR Model, 1998

相關拓片Related Rubbing

全形拓Whole Frame

銘文拓片Inscription

器影Image

拓片Rubbing

Ref. LiteratureAppeared in

Book A

Context of Chinese Rubbings

Ver. A(1,2,…)Ver. B(1,2,…)

Ver. A(1,2,…)Ver. B(1,2,…)

Ver. A(1,2,…)Ver. B(1,2,…)

Source from Reference to/from

原件Original Stone/Wood

印記、題跋…Seals

Related to

Originated from

Rubbed into

A Generic Metadata Structure

CORE INDIVIDUAL

CDWA, DC, EAD, FGDC, HISPID, TEIetc.

A common framework forvarious metadata formats

A B C

D E F

MD1 MD2 MD3 MD4

Common Core

XML

FGDC

MARC

EAD

And so on

End users

Metadata type and context

object

person

spacetime

event

event

event

Other supportiveconceptual models

• OAIS model for preservation

• ABC Model for Events

• ACB Model for Bio-diversity

Metadata Lifecycle - 1

• Interview with the content experts

• A series of worksheets• Analysis of project

requirement & attributes• Review of relevant metadata

standards

Metadata Lifecycle - 2

• Information Requirements Analysis, based on the return of worksheets

• Metadata Requirement Specification

• Metadata System Evaluation & Development

• Best Practice / User Guide• Metadata Service

Maintenance