SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Center for Cultural Informatics Foundation for Research and Technology SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances

Basic features  XML technology  Multi layered architectures  Open source software  National and International standards

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Data organization  Flexible and varied data structure  semantically structured data model  dynamic exploitation of the data in cultural sites in the internet  translations of a document in more than one language  fully compatible with ISO  best practices in data exchange

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Data organization  Museum instances  Monuments instances  Open sites and settlements instances  Multimedia entities (photos, designs, studies etc)  Bibliography entities  Evidence entity  Person entity  Organization entity  Department entity  Place entity  Material entity  Event entity

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Data organization  Document metadata  Object identification  Detailed documentation  Management  References

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Documentation Procedures  generic workflow  basic user types  basic document operations  document status

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Basic document Operations  creation new document  creation new edition of a document  editing process  viewing documents  application for publication  publication  publication reject  publication recall  deletion of a document

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Document Status  private documents  public documents  documents under publication

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances User types  System administrator  Organization administrator  Editor  Reader

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Work flow New document Creation Private document Under publication document Public document Application for publication Publication recall Publication reject

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Private space of ΧS2 Web User Interface XS1 Web User Interface XS1 Web User Interface Cultural Site Web User Interface Cultural Site Private space of ΧS1 Internet Web User Interface OA Web User Interface OA Web User Interface XS2 Web User Interface XS2 Scientific database Web User Interface SA Web User Interface SA Private documents Private documents Functional components web server database management server Entities Public documents Public space System Architecture Data base System components

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Basic software components  data base : eXist - native XML database  functional components : J2EE technology ( java-servlets, jsp, web service )  user interface : internet browser, Java, Authentic

SYNTHESIS An information system for administration documentation and promotion of cultural instances Functional components  Create and edit documents of cultural instances and entities  Navigate and retrieve documents of cultural instances and entities  Data migration  translation to 5 European languages  Associate documents of cultural instances and events