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Connecting different ethnomusicological archives with ethnoArc
Maurice MengelMusic Archive of the Ethnological Museum, National Museum in Berlin (EMEM)
Technical challenges and developments in 21st century folk music archivingBudapest, 11.06.2008
1 Network architectures (OAI)2 Semantic information retrieval
(Semantic Web)3 ethnoArc
From simple networks to the OAI
Interoperability "the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged“
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE Standard Computer Dictionary: A Compilation of IEEE Standard Computer Glossaries. New York, NY:
1990)
Interoperability?
Archive
Userexchange
TYPE 1 (typical early library network)
data repository
single metadata structure
several clients for data input
several clients for data output
TYPE 2 (“meta network structure”)
common metadata structure S3
clients for data input
local data
repositorylocal data
repository
clients for data input
local metadata structure S1
local metadata structure S2
commondata
repository
clients for data output
Variation with distributed searches
internal metadata
ethnoArc
DISMARC
BAMPortal
GBV
different archive users have different requirements
re-use of existing infrastructures (e.g. GBV)
to avoid maintenance of own webOPAC not very much work (reuse) …
Since 1990s; e-print community Open Archive Initiative Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting (OPI-PMH)
Source: http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/english/page2.htm
Multiple Service Providers
Aggregators
Semantic Web
future of the WWW Tim Berners-Lee in 1990s Web of Data Famous stack model
Source: http://www.w3.org/2000/Talks/1206-xml2k-tbl/slide10-0.html
None of semantic web technologies, but comes with explicit semantic layer
rich metadata concept
EU funded in IST FP6 September 2006- August 2008 Participants
Fraunhofer FOKUS (technology) 4 ethnomusicological archives (Berlin,
Bucharest, Budapest, Geneva) Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin
(Coordination) New Europe College, Bucharest (Evaluation)
Researcher tool for users of ethnomusicological archives
Accessibility to heterogenously structured archives
Distributed approach, no central server Main results: ethnoMARS software
Query builder MD structures visualizer Result windows