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Slide 1: Discovering our Past World with Digitised Historical Maps Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus Project eContentplus : ECP-2005-CULT-038042
Slide 2: Presentation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Objectives of the Project Project Consortium Overview Planned Activities Content to be Integrated Relevant Standards and Technology Multilingualism External Cooperation SWOT ...final notes... Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus ©DIGMAP 2
Slide 3: Objectives of the Project • Services to be Created (with human and machine interfaces): – Catalogue: “International Catalogue of Digitized Ancient Maps” – Authority Database: “International Authority Database of Maps Engravers, Editors and Printers” – Gazetteer: “European Multilingual Geographic Thesaurus” • Targeted Users – Services: citizens, students, scholars, teachers, professionals in libraries and archives, etc... – Technology: institutions intending to provide similar services, such as other national, university and research libraries, archives, etc. Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus ©DIGMAP 3
Slide 4: Objectives of the Project • ...Also objectives... – Gather and develop new reusable open-source technology for digital libraries: • catalogue and thesauri management • algorithms for features extraction from images • solutions for interoperability, metadata transformation, search and retrieval, etc. – To promote the development of European collaborative networks for reference, description, cataloguing, indexing and classification of ancient maps. • ...And finally: – To demonstrate innovative ways of integrating/interoperate with TEL (making it a reference case) !!! Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus ©DIGMAP 4
Slide 5: Project Consortium Overview 1 IST - Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) • Coordination: Overall project management • Technical: Services and systems requirements, modelling and development • Cooperation: Digital libraries R&D community • Coordination / Technical: Geographic thesauri • Cooperation: Geographic information community; (meta)Data Providers in Spain and Latin America; Dissemination in Spain and Latin America • Coordination: Dissemination • Technical: (meta)Data Provider; Validation of the results • Cooperation: TEL • Coordination / Technical: Catalogue • Technical: (meta)Data Provider; classification of features in historical maps; Validation of the results • Cooperation: International geographic community • Coordination: Overall Cooperation; Advising group • Technical: (meta)Data Provider; Validation of the results • Coordination: Evaluation • Technical: (meta)Data Provider; Validation of the results • Technical: Validation of the results • Cooperation: (meta)Data Providers in South East Europe 5 2 UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) BN - National Library of Portugal 3 (Portugal) KBR - Royal Library of Belgium (Belgium) BncF - Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (Italy) 4 5 NLE - National Library of 6 Estonia (Estonia) Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus IMI - Institute of Mathematics 7 and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria) ©DIGMAP
Slide 6: Planned Activities Type / EU Funding : Targeted Project / 949.997€ Start / Duration: 1st October 2006 / 24 Months WP1 Project Management Technical Work Development WP3 Catalogue WP2 Thesauri WP4 Indexing WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 Interfaces WP5 User Interface WP6 Service Interface WP6 WP7 WP8 WP9 Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus Project Management Thesauri Catalogue Indexing User Interface Service Interface Evaluation External Cooperation Dissemination IST UPM KBR UPM KBR IST NLE BncF BN WP8 External Cooperation WP7 Assessment and Evaluation WP9 Awareness and Dissemination 6 ©DIGMAP
Slide 7: Content to be Integrated Catalogue Descriptive metadata (UNIMARC, MARC21, Dublin Core, etc.) about ancient maps collected from: – DIGMAP partners (immediate...)!!! – Other cooperating libraries, archives, etc (TEL partners, Spain, South America, South East Europe, ...) – Worldwide publicly available OAI-PMH servers – – Catalogued from publicly web accessible digital libraries (only a small number of cases, as proof of concept...) ...other sources to explore... Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus ©DIGMAP 7
Slide 8: Relevant Standards and Technology • Descriptive Metadata – – – – UNIMARC MARC21 Dublin Core ... • Geographic information – ISO 19115 standard and other relevant standards of the ISO TC 211 for data models, etc... • Thesauri – ISO 5964 - Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Multilingual Thesauri • Core Technology Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus – Web-Services / SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), OAI-PMH, RDF, XML Schemas, etc... 8 ©DIGMAP
Slide 9: Multilingualism The DIGMAP services will have multilingual interfaces: – English – Partners languages: • • • • • • • Bulgarian Dutch Estonian French Italian Portuguese Spanish – Other important European languages will be also considered: Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus • German • Russian • ... 9 ©DIGMAP
Slide 10: External Cooperation Advising Group – External advising group to be created, with invitations to key individuals and organisations. TEL – BN, BncF and NLE are already members – KBR is a partner in EDL EDL – Opportunities to be explored!!! ... Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus ©DIGMAP 10
Slide 11: SWOT Strengths • Focus!!! • Ancient maps are appellative • Metadata and maps exist already • Partners have relevant expertises Weaknesses • Limited resources • Partners from different areas • Too many actions for such a small project • Content based indexing is not an easy task Opportunities • Can extend internationally • It really can make a case for TEL!!! • Potential for cross-cooperation with other projects • Can contribute to help EC defining further policies for similar projects Threats • Quality of metadata • Stability of the project team • Ineffective external cooperation • Move it in the end from project to an effective and stable service 11 Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus ©DIGMAP
Slide 12: ...final notes... • KBR, BN and BncF have already relevant collections of metadata and images... • NLE is committed to build a collection... • UPM has a strong connection with the IGN (Spanish National Geographic Institute)... • IST holds already the know-how and technology (tools) to build a basic service... Project co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus ©DIGMAP 12