An approach to extend the metadata schema of Zenodo for Cultural Heritage datasets (original) (raw)

5DMETEORA Framework: Management and Web Publishing of Cultural Heritage Data

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Cultural Heritage (CH) management software represents virtual information in various ways aiming either at usability and long-term preservation or interactivity and immersiveness. A single web-based framework that couples the organization of geospatial, multimedia and relational data with 4D visualization, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) is presented in this paper (https://meteora.topo.auth.gr/5dmeteora.php). It comprises the 5dMeteora platform and the Content Management System (CMS) for uploading, processing, publishing and updating its content. The 5dMeteora platform integrates a responsive 3D viewer of high-resolution models in the basis of 3DHOP (3D Heritage Online Platform) and Nexus.js multi-resolution library. It offers data retrieval and interpretation mechanisms through navigation tools, clickable geometries in the 3D scene, named hotspots, and semantic organization of metadata. Its content and interactive services are differentiated, based on the scientific specialty or the field of interest of the users. To achieve the sense of spatial presence, VR and AR viewports are designed to give a clearer understanding of spatial bounds and context of 3D CH assets. The proposed CMS allows dynamic content management, automation of 3DHOP's operations regarding 3D data uploading and hotspots defining, real-time preview of the 3D scene as well as extensibility at all levels (e.g., new data types). It is built upon a MySQL Database Management System and developed with PHP scripting, backend JavaScript and Ajax controllers as well as front-end web languages. The database maintains and manages the entities of every type of data supported by the platform, while encryption methods guarantee data confidentiality and integrity. The presented work is the first valid attempt of open-source software that automates the dissemination of 3D and 2D content for customized eXtented Reality (XR) experiences and reaches multiple levels of interactivity for different users (experts, non-experts). It can meet the needs of domain experts that own or manage multimodal heritage data.

DOI: 10.1109/CBMI.2011.5972517 Using LIDO to handle 3D Cultural Heritage Documentation Data Provenance

2013

cific, and fruitful, co-existence of digital objects pertaining to different culture domains is then assured by mapping the relevant metadata schemas to each other, the first step of interoperability. In this paper we will consider a rich metadata schema, LIDO (Light Information Describing Objects) [12], proposed to handle museum-related content in the framework of Europeana. Besides being a self-sufficient schema to be possibly used in the museum framework, LIDO is proposed by the European project ATHENA [3] as a standard for digital content aggregators. A two-step process is envisaged: mapping individual repository schemas to LIDO and mapping (once for all) the latter to the current Europeana Data Model schema (EDM) [9]. According to its proponents, LIDO is a metadata schema

Towards Preservation and Availability of Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage Research Data via a Virtual Museum

2020

Responsible use of cultural heritage requires networking of different research approaches and documentation techniques from different disciplines, as well as, the appropriate preservation and multi-functional availability of research data. Furthermore, the provision of information and the transfer of knowledge to the public are also indispensable for social acceptance and responsible and conscious handling of cultural heritage. Especially, with extensive collaborative research, this can lead to major challenges due to different data formats and requirements for the analysis and provision of data. It is, therefore, useful to first identify requirements on an informed basis. For this purpose, we demonstrate the handling of data from a research network based on the ancient cultural heritage in Trier (Germany) through a virtual museum. This museum splits into three levels of metadata abstraction and is represented by three parts: an entrance through a web front-end, a 3D museum’s lobby,...

Cultural Heritage and Interoperable Open Platforms: Strategies for Knowledge, Accessibility, Enhancement and Networking

2020

Improving the accessibility of information on cultural heritage is a key step to achieve sustainable and inclusive valorisation actions recognising knowledge as a valuable and operable resource. This paper addresses the issue from the point of view of digital technologies, in particular interoperable digital platforms for the storage, processing and visualization of open and interoperable data available in different formats (3D models, images, texts, etc.) and collected from different sources (traditional archives, digital libraries, real-time content, IoT, sensors, social networks, etc.). The comparison among three projects with different focuses – the H2020 INCEPTION project (Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic Modelling – G.A. No. 665220), the H2020 ROCK project (Regeneration and Optimization of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge – G.A. No. 730280) and the Italian national project PON PNR IDEHA (Innovation for Data Elaboration in Heritage Areas – No...

Proposal for a Cultural Heritage Application Schema within

2012

Since Cultural Heritage data are included in the theme 9 of the INSPIRE Annex I (Protected Sites), guaranteeing their interoperability is a priority. The Protected Sites Data Specification deals with this subject, although it is more oriented towards environmental data. Therefore we assumed that the implementation of the Protected Sites document in the Spanish case was a good chance to adapt the generic model to the specificity of Cultural Heritage data. Maintenance of this data in Spain is a complex matter, for there are 17 different regional administrations competent on the subject, responsible of data generation, along with other public administrations at a local, regional, national, European and worldwide level, as well as research organizations, universities and companies that also provide data; a circumstance that really calls for interoperability awareness. This data model also tries to solve such a situation for georeferenced heritage data under the INSPIRE Directive. 1.1 Interoperability This crucial issue is addressed in two ways: interoperability with INSPIRE spatial data and interoperability among heritage data. The first one is accomplished by the building of the data model as an application schema that develops the Protected Sites Data Specification, filling core INSPIRE documents and ISO 19100 series standards. The main INSPIRE documents that shape the model are the specification on Protected Sites itself, the Generic Conceptual Model and the Methodology for the development of data

The aggregation of heterogeneous metadata in web-based cultural heritage collections: a case study

In this paper, we discuss some issues related to digital libraries that are born as aggregators of cultural heritage resources harvested from different distributed digital repositories. Whenever such aggregations fall short of providing a real service to users, most of the time this is due to the inadequacy of the data (or conceptual) model proposed for the mapping and exposed to the final user. Our aim is to enhance the formal representation of cultural heritage materials, reasoning about some key concepts to improve the quality of the description of digital resources by refining the conceptual model. In order to discuss about these issues, we focus particularly on Europeana, the principal European Digital Library, as the foremost and most paradigmatic example of aggregators, and on the Europeana Data Model (EDM) as the conceptual model on which metadata from different repositories are mapped in Europeana.

ONB Labs - An Open Digital Hub of Cultural Heritage

2019

Historical research practices are being gradually transformed by the digitization of historic sources on the one hand, and the usage of digital methods and semantic technologies on the other. We present two digital initiatives of the Austrian National Library, ANNO and ONB Labs, which, as a digital hub of cultural heritage, enhances accessibility to and knowledge discovery within historical datasets considerably. To do so, ÖNB provides resources such raw data, metadata, or Linked Open Datasets which can be accessed as data dump or via a SPARQL API, allowing for live querying of RDF datasets. ONB Labs, additionally, offers services, tools, and APIs to enrich this data such as IIIF, Open Annotations, SACHA, or Jupyter Notebooks which allow to create and share documents including live code, visualizations and narrative texts. In this demopaper, we explore the question how digital methods and semantic technologies can be used in the context of historical research and illustrate their ap...

Metadata generation for cultural heritage: Creative histories—The Josefsplatz experience

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Creative Histories is a Cultural Heritage application using a full 3D-navigation model for PC and mobile phones to navigate historical sites across different epochs, thus creating a new conceptual model for presenting and navigating spatio-temporally anchored cultural information. In this contribution we present the system's metadata generation component. The major characteristics of which are: automatic extraction of presentation objects from legacy documents, storage of presentation objects in RDF/XML format along media type and semantic dimension, and online generation of interactive tours adapted to requirements of the device, user interests, user position in the spatial and temporal model, and user history.