A Taste of Turing and other archives Jessie Hey Gareth Hughes IAM, Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton University
Group Background Creating a hypermedia version of the Mountbatten archive began in 1988 Microcosm Open Hypermedia System Wellington, Churchill, V&A Museum… Intelligence Agents Multimedia
One of 50,000 photos in the Mountbatten Archive
The Mountbatten Archive 250,000 text documents 50,000 photographs Recorded speeches Large collection of film and video Spans entire lifetime ( )
How we started Mountbatten in India ( ) On-going catalogue work by Archives produced ASCII files of text (in STATUS) 200 photos put onto laser videodisc – catalogue in Superbase Links authored using first prototype of Microcosm
Alan Turing Archive One of the current projects King’s College Cambridge 3 way funded pilot. IEE, BCS, ECS Soton To scan 1/3 of items Design Web site about the archive for 3 types of users Technology to be re-used for other archives
Database Design Issues Create database fields from catalogue etc. Copyright clearance. Majority is cleared Pay experts such as Andrew Hodges and Jonathan Swinton to contribute analysis Multiple versions/formats of each image for different applications OCR images where possible
Scanning Facts and Figures A3 scanner purchased (Epson GT10000) 780 images scanned at 300dpi, 24bit colour Compressed Tiff format 13Gb files produced PC and scanner taken to Archive, King’s 6 days work
JREI Server Project Joint Research Equipment Initiative For storing and processing multimedia data for a variety of projects 2 Sun servers each with 4 processors and 2GB memory Approximately 200Gb disk space
Turing Web Site Software IBM DB2 to manage the multimedia data Apache Web server PHP (HTML embedded scripting language) for dynamic pages that query the database Whole system is cross-platform and free Also available via our Agent Framework
Browse database for Items List of Folders in the Item (A.1) List of Files in the Folder
High Quality Image Browser Research started in the Viseum and ACOHIR projects Image capture, calibration, compression, serving and scanning Image server provides image tiles to a Java browser Quickly view very large images (1Gb)
Sample Photo K7.8 AMT running, inscribed on back, ‘National Physical Lab. 2nd in 3 miles’ 26 Dec Copyright: Photographer unknown (possibly a newspaper)
Image Viewer K.2 Précis of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. [c. 1927]. AMS notes putting the argument of The Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein in simple form, taking the book chapter by chapter, with directions on how to read it.
Links Alan Turing (Hodges) IAM Image Browser azul.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~km/projs/webimage/ Php uk.php.net DB2 Contact Kirk Martinez