A Distributed Catalog for Digitized Cultural Heritage

Abstract

International audiencePeer-to-peer networks have emerged recently as a flexible decentralized solution to handle large amount of data without the use of high-end servers. In this paper we present a distributed catalog built up on an overlay network called "Synapse". The Synapse protocol allows interconnection of different overlay networks each of them being an abstraction of a "community" of virtual providers. Data storage and data retrieval from different kind of content providers (i.e. libraries, archives, museums, universities, research centers, etc.) can be stored inside one catalog. We illustrate the concept based on the Synapse protocol: a catalog for digitized cultural heritage of Serbia

Proving properties of the Chord protocol using the ASM formalism

“…Possible direction for further work is to apply similar technique to describe other DHT protocols. For example, an interesting candidate for examination in the ASMframework could be Synapse, a protocol for information retrieval over the interconnection of heterogeneous overlay networks defined in [18], and applied in [19].…”

Federating digital contact tracing using structured overlay networks

“…A proposal to solve this issue was given by defining the Synapse protocol in [21]. Its performances were analyzed in [22], whereas one real-life proof of concept was developed in [24].…”

Cultural Heritage Digitization in Serbia: Standards, Policies, and Case Studies

“…Nonetheless, the work on the establishment of a mechanism of coordination among national digitization projects proceeded slowly. Given the lack of a national strategy and guidelines in the area of the digitization of cultural heritage, cultural institutions proceeded to complete digitization projects either on their own strength (e.g., the Historical Museum of Serbia created its own database for managing museum documentation, which was subsequently adopted by a group of museums [23]) or have sought outside assistance (e.g., the University Library in Belgrade turned to international initiatives such as "EUROPEANA" for the exchange of knowledge necessary for successful realization of projects in the field of digitization of cultural and scientific heritage [24]), while a number of cultural institutions have decided not to engage in digitization projects until clear guidelines have been defined at the state level (in the chronological framework from 1995 to the present, cultural heritage digitization projects by cultural and scientific institutions in Serbia can roughly be classified into the following categories: foundations and definitions (e.g., [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]); overviews and surveys (e.g., [10,19,21,[33][34][35][36][37][38][39]), pilot projects (e.g., [40][41][42]), projects of presentations of cultural and scientific heritage (e.g., ), applications in education (e.g., [66][67][68]), analysis of data stored in developed databases (e.g., [69][70][71]), and as chapters of MSc and PhD theses (e.g., [72,73])). The consequence of all this was that digitization projects by cultural institutions in Serbia differed in standards and systems for describing and managing cultural heritage they adhered to, presenting a challenge for consistency and the possibility of migration, as well as protection, preserv...…”