The Aquarelle resource discovery system

Michard, Alain; Christophides, Vassilis; Scholl, Micheł; Stapleton, Mike; Sutcliffe, Dale C.; Vercoustre, Anne-Marie

doi:10.1016/s0169-7552(98)00007-5

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“…As early as 1992 Henrik Jarl Hansen expressed the need to join up digital resources across Europe (Figure 1) (Hansen 1992), and the European Commission has been a key funding agency in facilitating several projects in this area. The first was AQUARELLE (1996-99), which designed a resource discovery architecture enabling query broadcasting to distributed and heterogeneous data sources from the museums and heritage domain (Michard et al 1998). The project collaborated with the CIMI consortium of American museums and libraries to use a Z39.50 Application Profile to enable query broadcasting and a software system to create and manage multilingual terminology resources.…”

Section: Background: the Prehistory Of Archaeological Data Aggregationmentioning

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Joined up Thinking: Aggregating archaeological datasets at an international scale

Richards

2023

Internet Archaeol.

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The archaeological research community was an early adopter of digital tools for data acquisition, organisation, analysis, and presentation of research results of individual projects. However, the provision of e-infrastructure and services for data sharing, discovery, access, and reuse has lagged behind. The ARIADNE Research Infrastructure has sought to address this situation. Developed with European funding, ARIADNE has created an e-infrastructure that enables data providers to register and provide access to their digital resources through the ARIADNE data portal, facilitating discovery, access, and research. ARIADNE has aggregated resources from over 45 data providers, spanning over 40 countries and 4 continents. The portal now provides online access to over 3.9 million research resources. It is based upon Linked Open Data technologies and is underpinned by a flexible and extensible architecture, enabling multiple combinations and presentations of the same underpinning data. We have been keen not to 'make a great heap' of all the data and, learning from previous data aggregation projects, we have defined a subset of the CIDOC CRM to be used as a strict ontology and paid close attention to data standards and controlled vocabularies to achieve a high degree of interoperability. This article discusses some of the challenges of large-scale data integration and describes the approaches adopted to ensure that the ARIADNE Knowledge Base is an effective tool for archaeological heritage management and research at a national and international level.

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Section: Background: the Prehistory Of Archaeological Data Aggregationmentioning

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Joined up Thinking: Aggregating archaeological datasets at an international scale

Richards

2023

Internet Archaeol.

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“…As a response to the challenge of providing access to museum resources on the Web, according to Perkins (2001) into a future version of the CIMI Profile, so that there would eventually be a single profile shared by both projects (Michard et al 1998).…”

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Legacy and Impacts of the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)

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Lee²

2009

Journal of the Korean Society for information Management

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The Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI), operating from 1990-2003, was charged with creating and introducing the international museum community to the concept of adopting metadata industry standards. The CIMI consortium exceeded its original mission by; creating a standards framework, profile, testbeds, important metadata publications, free downloadable metadata software and protocols, and providing instrumental guidance and support in development of new projects. However, CIMI's emphasis on the importance and utility of a standards-based approach and the necessity for implementing the CIMI Standards Framework is probably its most important achievement. During CIMI's tenure, museums reaped the benefits by learning how to apply the model and standards to meet their individual needs while not having to invent new ones or bear the cost of software development. Although CIMI operations ceased in 2003, its impacts on museum related metadata application and research were unprecedented in that it provided the standards prototype and foundations on which to build. This paper discusses what CIMI bequeathed to the next generation of museum metadata field developers and describes the anticipated realm of future projects and advancement.

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“…Previous approaches to this problem have focused on either imposing a common structure on the metadata to create a standard across a small number of institutions (Van Eyck project [3]), or imposing a standard interface technique (z39.50 [4], AQUARELLE [5]). However, these approaches fail to accommodate the diversity of specialized collections in the museum domain and fail to provide a schema that is sufficiently descriptive of the relationships therein.…”

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SCULPTEUR: Towards a New Paradigm for Multimedia Museum Information Handling

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Boniface

Goodall

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper describes the design and prototype implementation of a novel architecture for integrated concept, metadata and content based browsing and retrieval of museum information. The work is part of a European project involving several major galleries and the aim is to provide more versatile access to digital collections of museum artefacts, including 2-D images, 3-D models and other multimedia representations. An ontology for the museum domain, based on the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, is being developed as a semantic layer with references to the digital collection as instance information. A graphical concept browser is an integral component in the user interface, allowing navigation through the semantic layer, display of thumbnails, or full representations of artefacts and textual information in appropriate viewers and the invocation of conventional content based searching or combined querying. Semantic Web technologies are used in system integration to describe how tools for analysis and visualisation can be applied to different data types and sources. This supports flexible and managed formulation, execution and interpretation of the results of distributed multimedia queries. Combined searches using concepts, content and metadata can be initiated from a single user interface.

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The Aquarelle resource discovery system

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Joined up Thinking: Aggregating archaeological datasets at an international scale

Joined up Thinking: Aggregating archaeological datasets at an international scale

Legacy and Impacts of the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)

SCULPTEUR: Towards a New Paradigm for Multimedia Museum Information Handling

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