Sapienza Digital Library: a cross-disciplinary support for education Angela Di Iorio Sapienza Library System Center angela.diiorio@uniroma1.it ECLAP 2012 Conference: Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment 8 May 2012 Convitto della Calza, Firenze, Italy
Application context Founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, the first University in Rome The largest University in Europe, the second in the world after El Cairo people: 145,000 students, over 4,500 professors, almost 5,000 admin/technical employees organizational structures for learning and scientific investigations in almost all disciplines of knowledge: 11 colleges, 68 departments memory structures: 59 libraries, 20 musems
Sapienza s partner in digital library project CINECA is a non profit consortium, made up of 49 Italian Universities, the The National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics OGS, the CNR (National Research Council), and the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) founded in 1967 350+ employees acts like a trait d'union between the academic world, the sphere of pure research and the world of industry and Public Administration supercomputing center, the most powerful in Italy
The project s vision Building a framework in the forefront, for the submission, dissemination, and preservation of Sapienza s digital assets, interconnected with the most important European, and International digital resources aggregators
General objectives Offering to the Sapienza s designated communities the opportunity to exploit digital materials owned and/or produced by Sapienza; Optimizing, improving, and enhancing the value of digital materials throughout the new technologies and social tools; Allowing the interoperable conversation with other kinds of information management systems (libraries/archives/musems/universities, open access repositories ).
General objectives Managing a broad variety of digital materials like ancient, non ancient and born digital resources, collections of, audio/videos, 3D materials, scientific articles and datasets, special and valuable collections (private archives of scientists, work archives, etc.), museums/archives/libraries materials, scientific learning and teaching materials; Organizing, grouping and indexing the materials supporting browsing and searching on different dimensional views;
Technical objectives Managing digital materials coming from former digitization projects; Gathering as much as possible information, lowering the threshold of information lost, and making retrospective conversions of existing materials; Achieving a satisfying level of information not only for user needs, but also for enabling advanced services for preservation and dissemination; Enriching the information making it reusable and connectable with other application contexts;
Technical objectives Adhering to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) functional model and developing compliant services supporting the Long Term Digital Preservation Adopting the most spread digital libraries and digital preservation metadata standards, in order to mantain and to guarantee the interoperability of the SDL system with other systems, supporting the worldwide dissemination of digital resources; Adopting a platform and tools based on open source and open access solutions. 1.Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems Reference Model foranopenarchivalinformationsystem(oais),bluebook.issue1, January 2002, http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf
Metadata framework based on standards http://www.bitmagazine.it/curiosita/iceberg grande come new york si stacchera dal polosud/10108.html Customized users Interfaces OAI PMH, Web Services Interfaces Exhibition/Export of metadata for third party resources aggregators: InternetCulturale, Europeana, World Digital Library METADATA Descriptive: MODS >DC Technical: immagini MIX, Audio MD, Video MD Administrative, Structural: METS, METSrights Container: METS Preservation: PREMIS Modelling of the metadata framework: conformant with Open Archival Information System (Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems) flexible and wide ranging prearranged to hold also other standards descriptions on which in future will be possible to implement integrations services interoperable with other systems prearranged to the exchange with other digital library systems and other information management systems interoperable with future users prearranged to the long term digital preservation and equipped with the minimal and essential metadata enabling the long term management
SIP s characteristics based on METS as metadata container; encompasses different descriptive and administrative standards; conformant to specific metadata standard guidelines (i.e. DLF aquifer); conformant to Sapienza customized FC content models; exists independently and redundantly apart from the DLMS; open to the inclusion of other metadata METS DIP standards that are more descriptive than MODS core description. Local descriptions MIX OTHER EAD METS SIP UNIMARC MODS DC/ESE PREMIS MARC21 Other Standards SDL AIP
Pre-ingestion workflow Design and development of workflow for the digital library peopling, from Sapienza organization units toward the digital library management system: detecting of available digital materials analysis, normalization and enrichment of metadata and digital objects design and development of tools for digital resources management and production modelling of resources and collections of resources ready for submission modelling of metadata framework conformant with international standard for digital libraries modelling of provenance workflow of the resources designing and developing of a local database as metadata nursery for the final SIP Organizational Unit Computing Center SDL Management System Organizational Unit Organizational Unit variety collections SDL DARK REPOSITORY standardized collections
Organizational collections Architettuta Vallegiulia Centrale di Ingegneria Biologia vegetale Matematica Fisica Rilievo, Analisi e Disegno dell'ambiente e dell'architettura Statistica Filosofia Economia Monteverdi PADIS Storia dell'arte DigiLab Biblioteca Italiana UNIMARC bibliographic description from Sapienza s central catalog and other local catalogs Museums centralized database books, maps, photo ancient books ancient books ancient books doctoral thesis modern books VII italian population census philosophy s journals ancient books modern books international politics journal video, text, books Museo di Storia della Medicina Museo di Merceologia Museo delle Antichità Etrusco Italiche Museo di Fisica Museo di Chimica "Primo Levi" Museo di Paleontologia Museo di Anatomia Patologica Museo di Mineralogia Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea Museo dell' Arte Classica Museo del Vicino Oriente Museo di Antropologia "Giuseppe Sergi" Museo di Anatomia Comparata Museo di Zoologia Orto Botanico Erbario Museo di Botanica Museo delle Origini Museo di Geologia Museo Arte e giacimenti Minerari Museo di Idraulica
Materials samples Modelling samples come from provenienti da diverse strutture organizzative e usati per la modellazione delle risorse informative e la progettazione del sistema DigiLab Centre for Research in Digital Arts and Humanities Museums Center Progetto di digitalizzazione della Sapienza PRODIGI libri antichi e moderni, mappe, foto, tesi di dottorato, riviste, periodici, immagini, testi Architettuta Vallegiulia Centrale di Ingegneria Biologia vegetale Matematica Fisica Rilievo, Analisi e Disegno dell'ambiente e dell'architettura Statistica Filosofia Economia Monteverdi PADIS Storia dell'arte BIDS
Special collections Arts, Performing arts, Music Mediateca cinema, danza, teatro, opera Mediateca iconografia teatrale Archivio Nico Garrone Archivio Irtem: documentari, quaderni, Archivio Irtem: fondo audio, libretti, programmi di scena Archivio Guerrieri: carte, stampa, foto Archivio Arte, storico fotografico(163.000) Archivio Arte bizantina Archivio Venturi: carte stampe, foto Archivio Musica contemporanea Archivio CARMA, musica applicata Fototeca Calcografia Nazionale (se finanziato su bando Telecom) audiovideo/ articols/audiovideo audiovideo/ audio/prints papers/prints/photographs photographs photographs papers/prints/photographs audiovideo/audio audiovideo/audio photographs Archeology Collezione Palatino area di scavo orientale Collezione Pyrgi area di scavo Collezione Cencelle e territorio limitrofo Collezione Priverno/Fossanova Collezione Aslantepe databases, spreadsheets description: standardized nonstardardized system s folders information Collezione Elaiussa Sebaste Collezione archeologica medievale siriana Collezione Ebla
Cultural heritage samples DigiLab Centre for Research in Digital Arts and Humanities a newly formed Centre for Research in Digital Arts and Humanities combination of nine departments from both the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Faculty of Computer Science unique environment for exploring fundamental research and practical applications stemming from the rich interplay between Information and Communication Technologies and the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences range of disciplines, including arts, humanities, archaeology, anthropology, music, new media, computer science, 2D 3D design, interactive cinema and television, new forms of storytelling and new approaches to research and teaching.
Prototype screenshot A first evidence of reuse and recontextualization of digital resources
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Future developments DANZA DEL GIGLIO ESEGUITA ALL'APERTO Loïe Fuller. Getanzter Jugendstil, J-A. a cura di B. Danzker, Monaco-New York, Prestel, 1995
Future developments Building new resources by reusing existing ones, mantaining the originating information chain Actor: Kazuo ono VIALA J. MASSON SEKINE N., Butoh. Shades of darkness,tokyo, Shufunotomo Co., LTD 1988,
Future developments Building new resources by reusing existing ones, mantaining the originating information chain recontextualizing over and over Actor: Kazuo ono VIALA J. MASSON SEKINE N., Butoh. Shades of darkness,tokyo, Shufunotomo Co., LTD 1988,
Prefiguring the use for perfoming arts Looking at ballet studies we can evisage a tool for comparison between the Vaganova and R.A.D. (Royal Academy of dance) methods, and how they use the biomechanics technics, supported by authoritative knowledge sources. The interdisciplinary digital repository can convey knowledge elements like: Educational science, Musical rhythmic s studies, Medical science and anatomy, Biomechanics, Traumatology, Psychology, Communication Science, Acting and performing art Providing customized tools for students, teachers and performers The comparison feasibility of Educational methodologies Performance studies The capture of eligible users conversation around resources The reuse of materials in new contexts
Future developments The integration of Social tools (linking, sharing, commenting, rating, tagging) Long Term Digital Preservation services Semantic web technologies and linked data (RDF, OWL, LOD..) OAI PMH protocol Web portal oriented to the multifaceted users communities Taxonomies and folksonomies Data exchange with other systems (research article discovery tool, archive/library/museums systems, and other information systems )