Cultural Heritage in REGional NETworks REGNET 2 Scope

Cultural Heritage in REGional NETworks REGNET

2 Scope THE CONCEPT OF THEMES IN REGNET October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

3 Theme = ? Definitions Keywords „matter about which is spoken, thought“ broad interest “subject of an essay, paper, composition” related pieces “translation from your own language into a foreign language” languages October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

4 REGNET’s thematic approach Setting up pieces of information (objects - fragments) combinable within a scope or context into a theme without a fixed hierarchy, reusable in different themes reached and/or composed in a personalised way via different access devices (including mobile) October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

5 The CH data triangle Themes Digitised object images & descriptions October 2001 Fragments Project presentation REGNET

6 Theme Scheme Religion Congregation Girls boarding schools Education Cologne SAINT Ursulines Desenzano St Ursula October 2001 St Angela Project presentation REGNET

7 Fragments October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

8 Thematic view History Arts Science Graphics Architecture Botany Religion Apocalypse Measuring Materials REGNET Art Gallery Spanish Art Amulets Martyrs Ursulines Masks Gilt Leather St Ursula St Angela Ethnology Geography THEMES Industry Habsburg Saints Leather Bulgarian Art Linneaus Nkisi sculptures The life of St Ursula - The Cult of St Ursula - The iconography of St Ursula - The attributes of St Ursula - The clothing of St Ursula FRAGMENTS Object image 1 of St Ursula - Object image 2 of St Ursula Object image 3 of St Ursula OBJECT IMAGES Object description 1 of St Ursula - Object description 2 of St Ursula Object description 3 of St Ursula OBJECT DESCRIPTIONS October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

9 Data generation Paper based object images & descriptions Themes Digitised object images & descriptions Dublin Core Z 39. 50 – FTP Storage medium Collection Management System Data October 2001 Thematic text data entry Data entry - FTP Storage medium Scanning OCR - FTP Storage medium Collection data entry Topic map data entry Project presentation REGNET Generation of themes Fragments

10 Topic Maps History Early 1990’s Information Book Electronic Document Individual Multiple Knowledge Index (implicit) ? ? ? Hy. Time Full text indexing 1993 Topic Maps (under Hy. Time umbrella) Independently developed under SGML Addition of A. I. -concepts (Semantic Networks) 2000 ISO/IEC 13250: 2000 Topic Maps XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1. 0. Topic. Maps. Org Specification OASIS Technical Committees 2001 October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

11 Topic maps basics TOPIC MAP XML-document TOPIC everything that can be spoken, thought about ASSOCIATION relation between topics OCCURRENCE information resource related to (a) topic(s) SCOPE context FACET typical characteristic (language, use level) . . . October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

12 Topic Maps applied October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

13 Topic view History Arts Science Graphics Architecture Botany Religion Apocalypse Measuring Materials REGNET Art Gallery Spanish Art Amulets Martyrs Ursulines Masks Gilt Leather St Ursula St Angela Ethnology Geography Industry Habsburg Saints Leather Bulgarian Art Linneaus Nkisi sculptures The life of St Ursula - The Cult of St Ursula - The iconography of St Ursula - The attributes of St Ursula - The clothing of St Ursula Object image 1 of St Ursula - Object image 2 of St Ursula Object image 3 of St Ursula Object description 1 of St Ursula - Object description 2 of St Ursula Object description 3 of St Ursula October 2001 TOPICS Project presentation REGNET OCCURRENCES

14 The initial REGNET themes Criteria: manageable focus, scalable in number and depth covered by a series of regional anchor points SAINTS MASKS and AMULETS MEASURING HABSBURG Early RENAISSANCE in Europe LINNEAUS LEATHER GILT LEATHER REGNET ART GALLERY TOUR d’HORIZON October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

15 Themes Digitised object images & descriptions Other sources Collection management data Data consulting Fragments REGNET Output FUNCTION SEARCH & RETRIEVAL Set of texts, images Books, additional texts, … PUBLISHING Paper and electronic publications Catalogue E-BUSINESS Supporting information October 2001 Project presentation REGNET

16 END THEMATIC CONCEPT October 2001 Project presentation REGNET