Boundless Treasury of Collective Memories Gábor Magyar Budapest University of Technology and Economics May 22. 2003. Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 1
Imprints of collective memories live speech (spoken word) text objects buildings, gardens, etc. mediated text hypertext multimedia Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 2
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Basic Concept A kind of cultural DataMart : network of autonomous institutions. Interconnected or interoperable independent players. Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 5
National Digital DataMart Primary task: Framework for public digital memory institutions. Primary goal: Better (more effective) use and exploitation of public cultural assets. Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 6
National Digital DataMart Standards (metadata, technology, protocol) Portal (metadata-base, search engine, etc.) Centre for standards development and coordinating interconnection problems Communications infrastructure Funding Trade mark Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 7
Why DataMart? Players know their mission and tasks best. Different interests. Evolving context (end of canon ). Driving force from individual and organisational initiatives and creativity. Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 8
What s the good of it? Access for all More content (content is king; driving force in information society) more user Educational use Research use Renewal of cultural institutions National, regional and group identity representation in multicult Europe, (e.g. helps cultural reintegration of Hungarian people) Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 9
NDM architecture (preliminary) Tűzfal SP DP OAI szerver Meta szerver URI Média szerver Backup DP DP Digitalizáló állomás Data provider (DP) Tűzfal SP OAI Alkalmazás kliens Meta szerver Service provider (SP) DP DP Tűzfal DP SP OAI OAI kliens szerver Meta szerver Backup Portál, Szótár Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 10 NDA core SP
NDM architecture DP: manages its own digital assets and makes it accessible by means of standard interfaces and semantic structure (incl.: digitalisation, description, metadata representation) Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 11
NDM architecture DP: manages its own digital assets and makes it accessible by means of standard interfaces and semantic structure (incl.: digitalisation, description, metadata representation) SP: value-added services on DP s content (e.g.: search for multiple DP s, backup, interfacing; catalogue, thesaurus/ontology development; thematic filtering, essence extraction; content brokering, Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 12
NDM architecture DP: manages its own digital assets and makes it accessible by means of standard interfaces and semantic structure (incl.: digitalisation, description, metadata representation) SP: value-added services on DP s content (e.g.: search for multiple DP s, backup, interfacing; catalogue, thesaurus/ontology development; thematic filtering, essence extraction; content brokering, NDM Core: = SP + public terminology, ontology; standardisation; OAI interfacing Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 13
NDM standards and recommendations Metadata minimal schema (DC+, OAI PMH) Formats (data repr., character codes, date format, etc.) Content formats (text, image, voice, video) Protocol(s) More: schema development principles and method, DP architecture ( cookbook ) special data schemes if required Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 14
Conformity to international standards, trends multilingual cooperations Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 15
National Digital DataMart Founded by: Ministry of Informatics and Communications Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 16
Institutions interested in Museums Archives Libraries TV/radio archives Universities Private archives (incl. family archives) Content providers Public databases local regional country-wide international Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 17
Access policy Public Dedicated Business Access control Protection (e.g. watermarking, coding) Different quality versions ebusiness Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 18
Users Not-for profit Education School-net Research All who active in selfrepresentation Profit Tourism Entertainment sector Professional use Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 19
Financed by Ministries Memory institutions Business users International cooperation Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 20
EXAMPLES Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 21 Informatikai és Hírközlési Minisztérium
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EXAMPLES Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 24 Informatikai és Hírközlési Minisztérium
Thank you for your attention! Gábor Magyar magyar@ttt.bme.hu Hungarian R&D Day in Rome 25