MANUSCRIPTORIUM COOPERATING NETWORKING VIRTUALIZING Zdenk Uhl National Library
MANUSCRIPTORIUM: COOPERATING, NETWORKING, VIRTUALIZING Zdeněk Uhlíř National Library of the Czech Republic Zagreb 18. 05. 2011
THE IDEA OF MANUSCRIPTORIUM n n an aggregation of data an integration of services a personalisation of scholarly work a virtualisation of environment
FROM THE HISTORY… n 1991/2 – first attempts n 1995/6 – the beginning of a systematic digitization in the Czech NL n 2003/4 – creating Manuscriptorium as an aggregated resource n 2007/9 – a fundamental step to the European (eventually global) level
PROJECTS n individual steps in the progress of building Manuscriptorium n specific tasks concerning è an aggregation of data è an integration of services è a personalisation of environment è a virtualisation of scholarly work
MASTER (1999 -2001) n n acronym: Manuscript Access through STandard for Electronic Records full partners è De Montfort University, Leicester, UK è Oxford University Computing Services, UK è Institut de Recherche et d´Histoire des Textes, France è Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands è Copenhagen University, Denmark è National Library of the Czech Republic, Czechlands
VICODI (2002 -2004) n n acronym: VIsual COntextualisation of DIgital content full partners è SYSTRAN, s. a. , France è RIDEMO, s. i. a. , Latvia è Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m. b. H. , Austria è Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe, Germany è University of Newcastle, UK è National Library of the Czech Republic, Czechlands è University of East Anglia, UK
COMTOOCI (2004 -2005) n n acronym: COMputational TOOls for the librarian and philological work in Cultural Institution full partners è Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy è Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria è National Library of the Czech Republic, Czechlands è Institute for Bulgarian Language, Sofia, Bulgaria
ECH: TOPICC (2003 -2005) n n acronym: Endangered Cultural Heritage: TOols for Preservation, Invetsigation, and Coypright Clearance full partners è Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania è Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania è Public Company Visoriai Information Technologies Park, Vilnius, Lithuania è National Library of the Czech Republic, Czechlands è i. TEL, Informatics & Telematics Ltd/ R&D Unit, Athens, Greece è Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI), Xanthi, Greece è Business Systems International SA, Athens, Greece è Narcea Producciones Multimedia S. L, Madrid, Spain è Videostudio of Rezekne Higher School, Latvia è Kolonasata museum of Fr. Trasuns, Latvia è Graphical data processing centre, Rostock, Germany
ENRICH (2007 -2009) n n acronym: European Networking Resources and Information Concerning Cultural Heritage full partners è National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czechlands è Cross Czech, a. s. , Czechlands è Ai. P Beroun, s. r. o. , Czechlands è Oxford University Computing Services, UK è Centro per la communicazione e l´integrazione dei media, Florence, Italy è SYSTRAN, s. a. , Paris, France è Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania è National Library of Spain, Madrid, Spain è Nordic Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark è Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Florence, Italy è University Library, Wrocław, Poland è Arne Magnusson Institute, Reyskjavík, Iceland è Computer Science fot the Humanities, Cologne, Germany è St. Pölten Diocese Archive, Austria è National and University Library of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland è University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary è Supercomputing and Networking Centre, Poznań, Poland è University Library, Vilnius, Lithuania
REDISCOVER (2009 -2010) n acronym: REunion of DISpersed COntent: Virtual Evaluation and Reconstruction n full partners è National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czechlands è National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania è National Library of Poland, Warsaw, Poland è National Library of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
EMBARK (2010 -2012) n acronym: Enhance Manuscriptorium through BAlkan Recovered Knowledge n full partners è National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czechlands è Veria Central Public Library, Veria, Greece è Institute for Bulgarian Language, Sofia, Bulgaria è National Library of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
LEVELS OF RESOURCE BUILDING n n an aggregation of data an integration of services a personalised tools and speheres è catalogue records è images è full texts è music notation è comparison of full texts è comparison of images a virtual environment
AN AGGREGATION OF DATA n database and information system relating to the end user n not a mere replica of a physical library n surpasses significantly the opportunities that were offered by the traditional scientific infrastructure n descriptive metadata, i. e. catalogue entries, are aggregated, and they are converted to a uniformat n joint search finds manuscripts
AN INTEGRATION OF SERVICES n service is a new concept in relation to the manuscript sphere n it already affects some elements of actual research work n whatever exists only in traditional printed or written and other, simply analogue form does not exist
PERSONALISED TOOLS AND SPHERES n a user´s own digital space n a possibility to accumulate the results of previous work n one’s own tools for acquiring results as well as for their further processing and subsequent utilisation n for himself/herself n to other selected persons n to all users
CATALOGUE RECORDS n variants of descriptive records è a subject specific n n è a musicology a history of arts analytical descriptions n n n in-depth description of manuscript content composition/structure of intellectual units of higher level individual intellectual units of lower levels
IMAGES n n black & white optimisation details UV scanning (for palimpsests) …
FULLTEXTS n a fluid text n a contextual edition
A MUSIC NOTATION n a written record of music n a text in the semiotic meaning n an edition in a similar sense like a textual edition
A COMPARISON OF FULLTEXTS n n based on vectoral statistics working with XML, HTML, TXT a numerical-statistical representation of results a graphical representation of results
A COMPARISON OF IMAGES n distinguishing and selecting: a text, a music notation, an illumination, a border, a diagramm, a table n finding the same or a very similar illumination n finding the same or a very similar detail of illumination n finding a similar composition of figurative and/or non -figurative illumination n …
A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT n a virtualisation of knowledge n a path of how to uncover implicit, not only explicit, features of the objects n culturomics n back to the digitisation of the written and a documentary heritage
THE FUTURE… n continuing the same way è a cooperation with more and more partners n è a more close network n è an aggregation of data and metadata an integration of services a virtualisation of the networked digital environment n n a personal space external tools an interoperabilty webservices
THANK YOU ♥☺♥ Zdeněk Uhlíř Zdenek. Uhlir@nkp. cz
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