cultural heritage markup strategies
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Cultural Heritage Markup Strategies. Bibliotheca Alexandria Digital Library of the Middle East January, 2006. How can this image of a Sassanian seal from the 5 th century C.E. be located in a collection?. ECAI Metadata Infrastructure. Multiple ways to show data and indexing. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Cultural Heritage Markup Strategies
• Bibliotheca Alexandria – Digital Library of the Middle East
– January, 2006
How can this image of a
Sassanian seal from the 5th
century C.E. be located in a
collection?
ECAI Metadata Infrastructure
Facet Authority control Special display tools
WHERE Gazetteer Mape.g. NGA
WHEN Time period directory Timelinee.g. HumanSaga
WHO Biographical dict. Text & imagese.g. Who’s Who
WHAT Thesaurus Syndetic structure
Library mechanism for
markup
Multiple ways to show data and indexing
ECAI Metadata Infrastructure
Facet Authority control Special display tools
WHERE Gazetteer Map
e.g. NGA
Data location is now shown in a map generated
by using latitude longitude markup
Gazetteer shows
alternate names
Place name is tied to
coordinates
ECAI Metadata Infrastructure
Facet Authority control Special display tools
WHEN Time period directory Timeline
e.g. HumanSaga
Directory of
“named time
periods
TimeMap with GIS
draws a map with the
polygons for empires.
Instruction for this
procedure is contained in the named
time periods
Multiple maps can be created for comparison
So a similar solution: A gazetteer-like Time Period Directory.
Gazetteer:
Place name – Type – Spatial markers (Lat & long) -- When
Time Period Directory
Period name – Type – Time markers (Calendar) – Where
Note the symmetry.
Note the connections between Where and When.
A directory of 2,000 named time periods derived from LCSH Chronological subdivisions is at ecai.org/imls2004
Relationship between place names & period names
ECAI Metadata Infrastructure
Facet Authority control Special display tools
WHO Biographical dict. Text & images
e.g. Who’s Who
Lives involve multiple:• Places - Ctesiphon• Times – 632CE• Events – Arab invasion• Other people – Khosrau II
WHEN and Who. These named time periods are derived from Library of Congress catalog subject headings and so can be used for catalog searching which finds books on topics important for that time period.
Named Time Periods located through Library of Congress
WHEN, WHERE and WHO. Catalog records found from a time period search commonly include names of persons important at that time. Their names can be forwarded to, e.g., biographies in the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
ECAI Metadata Infrastructure
Facet Authority control Special display tools
WHAT Thesaurus Syndetic structure
Associated placesSasanian Coin from unknown
location Known government
centers and mints
Associated places
Mints in mountains
Mints along trade routes
Time sensitive interface software
Georegistration for mapping
Time bar to limit search
Records from Internet accessible resources
From a Clearinghouse search we find
registered items.
We find the Ottoman
Empire, that can be mapped.
The markup allows links to
be opened
Record for “Historic Sites of Iraq”
The metadata follows Dublin
Core with extensions
We add latitude and longitude to the Dublin
Core
Example of software generated mapUmayyad Caliphate & Sasanian Empire
Page of links relating to Ctesiphon
Links to library catalogs
Z39.50 search of Library of Congress catalog
Details of recordLink to image
ECAI Metadata Infrastructure
Facet Authority control Special display tools
WHAT Thesaurus Syndetic structure