21st October 2008 eSciDoc – A Service Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage Content VSMM 2008 – Digital Archives Online Natasa Bulatovic, Ulla Tschida, Andreas Gros Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Munich (DE)

221st October 2008 About eSciDoc Joint project Max-Planck Society (MPG) and FIZ Karlsruhe Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the context of eScience Service infrastructure for communication, collaboration and publication of research data and results Participation - Requirements –Max-Planck Institutes (Partner, Early Adopter) –External organisations (e.g. National Institute for Material Sciences (NIMS), Japan)

321st October 2008 Requirements (context Cultural heritage)  Managing various data artifacts digitized text corpora, annotated images holdings with special research interest  Supporting multiple research and collaborative scenarios sharing, annotating, authoring  Semantic enrichment of research data tagging and relating  Data interoperability and standards DARIAH – infrastructure for distributed data holdings  Long-term archiving and preservation  Persistent identification of resources  Open Access, fine-granular access rights

421st October 2008 eSciDoc infrastructure (overview)  user-centered and specialized Solutions Research data (images, text corpora etc.) Publication data (articles, papers, books, etc.) Publish, share, enrich, visualize, relate data and metadata Support for different workflows “Stress-test” for complete infrastructure  sustainable Service infrastructure core services: management of resources (CRUD, versioning, PID, etc.) intermediate services: value-adding (validation, duplicate checking, statistics, image handling, metadata transforming, technical metadata extracting etc.) application services: searching, exporting, authority records, citation styles formatting authentication and authorization across service layers

521st October 2008 eSciDoc resource patterns  Items publications, scanned pages, images, Table of contents etc.  Containers Albums, (multi)-volumes, Researcher portfolios, Yearbook catalogs etc.  Contexts Rules and policies for handling data  Organizational Units  Relations Revisions, Image-transcription-translation

621st October 2008 eSciDoc landscape

721st October 2008 Fact sheet eSciDoc infrastructure  Repository-based (FedoraCommons)  Service-oriented  Diverse descriptive metadata profiles, technical metadata automatically extracted (JHOVE)JHOVE  Elaborated information on each working and published version of resources (PRONOM)PRONOM  Aggregations and relations between resources (e.g. membership, revisions)  Persistent identification of resources and their components (Handles or other, e.g. DOI, URI)Handles  Open-source ( CDDL license, see

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