French-Italian Digital collections Portal PASS Technologie 23 rue Pierre et Marie Curie Ivry-sur-Seine Jean-Pierre Dalbéra Muriel Foulonneau Pierre Dittgen Nader Boutros DEMO VERSION

French catalog

Italian catalog

Catalog features ● Those catalog applications are built using XToGen and SDX allowing: – Easy browsing (list and through documents) – Enhanced administration backoffice ● Excel data import/export ● Document copy ● External list edition ● PDF booklet export – Integration of existing look and feel – Complex document support – Full UTF-8 interface – Meta data support – VCF contact export

Catalog data ● French catalog – Documents are all in french – Managed documents are of two types: ● Établissements (institutions) ● Fonds (funds) ● Italian catalog – Documents are all in italian – Managed documents are of four types: ● Institutions ● Projects ● Services ● Collections

Data mapping 1/2 Etablissement Fonds Institution Project Collection Service FR IT

Data mapping 2/2 ● 5 mapping links ● Each mapping is done between two fields ● Each field is associated to one native authority list ● A matching table per mapping defines associations between values coming from the french and the italian lists

Portal application

Portal features ● Gathers data from two different applications ● Transparent browsing and searching even if: – No 1 to 1 matching between document types – No 1 to 1 matching between authority lists values ● Full-text and advanced search ● Result documents are – identified by type and source – displayed in their local application ● Full multilingual interface (fr, en, it)

FR OAI approach perspectives FR metadata OAI HARVEST PROCESS catalog National documents bases OAI DC meta publishing OAI DC meta harvesting Various usages (portal,...) IT

OAI advantages ● Better application independancy ● Applications can be really remote ● Application data can be very heterogeneous ● New application can simply be added into the portal ● OAI is a standard allowing to use OAI tools from different vendors to handle application meta data

XToGen and SDX ● All these applications are made with XToGen and SDX ● SDX is available at ● It includes OAI features since 2.2 version (soon released) ● XToGen is a SDX application generator engine, available at ● It will includes OAI before end 2003 ● Both are free software sponsored by French Ministry of Culture and Communication