1. biblissima
a project to support digital
humanities tools and repositories
2013-04-05
COST Workshop - Medieval Texts and
Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
Stefanie Gehrke
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2. bibliotheca bibliothecarum
novissima
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Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
Stefanie Gehrke
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3. bibliotheca bibliothecarum
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Outline
 biblissima in brief
 aim and content
 vision
 challenges for the team biblissima
 contact
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Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
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4. bibliotheca bibliothecarum
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In brief
 two phases
 eight partners
 one project leader (Campus Condorcet)
 7.1 million € (France)
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Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
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5. bibliotheca bibliothecarum
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COST Workshop - Medieval Texts and
Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
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Responsibilities
 executive committee: A.-M. Turcan-Verkerk
 executive board
 phase 1 (viewer + metadata): Matthieu
Bonicel
 cluster metadata: Cyril Masset
 electronic editions: Pierre-Yves Buard
 e-learning: Marjorie Burghart
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Scientific council
 twenty people from different fields and
backgrounds
Archive Music
Research
Teaching
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Library Literature
History
Language
Digital Humanities

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Collaborations
 Stanford University
 e-codices
 …
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Outreach
• Although biblissima is a national project,
financed by the Ministry for Higher Education
and Research of France, it might become an
international effort.
• The content (images – transcriptions –
descriptions - annotations – tutorials and
other tools) provided by biblissima will be
publicly accessible.
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Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
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 Collaborative portal - data from different institutions
 digital facsimiles
 descriptions CHO
 transcriptions
 data enrichment
 tutorials and online tools
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What ?
 manuscripts
 early printed books
 books and letters from the 16th - 18th
centuries
 inventories and catalogues
IMAGES – LITERALS – URIs – mp3 (?)
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And Collections
 Library of the Sorbonne 14th – 16th centuries
 Library of Charles V and VI
(Louvre and Vincennes)
 Bibliotheca bibliothecarum de Montfaucon
 Sanderus electronicus
 Library Mont Saint-Michel
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“Vision biblissima”
 backend: RDF (triple store)
 high granularity
 complete set of relations between CHOs, concepts,
agents, dates and places
 main focus: history of the transmission of texts and the
dynamics in collections
 workspace for data creation from image to text
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Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
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“Vision” workflow expert cataloguer/researcher
 from the digital facsimile towards an expert
manuscript description
 from the digital facsimile towards an expert
transcription (Sanderus electronicus ; Glossa
ordinaria)
 survey on XML editors
collaboration with Stanford (Shared Canvas)
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Challenge 1 : Source data in many formats
 individual databases (MySQL ; ACCESS ; etc.)
 TEI
 Marc21, Marc XML, Intermarc, Marc-TEI
 EAD
 METS/MODS
 RDF/XML
 docx and/or odt
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Intended workflow
 ontology in OWL
 mappings 2 RDF (matching subset)
 Thesaurus (Thesauri ?) biblissima
 automated workflows for docx and/or odt
 automated workflow for persistent annotations
(workspace image-viewer)
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Development (biblissima-)OWL in the context
of
 DM2E
 SAWS
 OAC (Shared Canvas)
 CIDOC-CRM and FRBRoo
 RDA
 DPLA
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Crosswalks
building on the results of Europeana Regia
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/eregia2eseedm/
 http://diglib.hab.de/rules/documentation/
 http://www.europeanaregia.eu
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19. EDM
Europeana Regia quality management tool
Source
formats
TEI
MAB
MXML EAD MARC21METS/
MODS?
Modular
frontend
Coherent
single
backend
Reference-Transformation
XSLT XSLT XSLT XSLT
XSLT
MARCTools
Europeana Regia
Modul XSLT
ESEOutput format
Realisationmapping
Qualitycontrolofsource
metadatasets
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Enhancing existing XSLTs
 TEI
 EAD 2 EDM
 Marc21
EDM as defined by the Europeana Libraries
project (D5.1)
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Challenge 2 : collect, create and assign URIs
 people / institutions
 places
 digital facsimiles (books and letters)
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But also URIs for
 holdings (? ISIL ?)
 projects (biblissima ? dc:source ?)
 databases (? dc:source ?)
 collections (virtual and/or real)
 titles (single / corpus / edition-level)
 concepts (?) ; subjects (?) ; digital editions (?)
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Challenge 3 : Infrastructure
 adequate triple store (number of triples in
biblissima ?)
 import-interfaces
 portal plus tutorials
 export-interfaces
 Thesaurus / Thesauri
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Triple store solutions
 native (e.g. Jena)
 object-relational database (e.g. Virtuoso)
 relational database (e.g. MySQL)
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Challenge 4 : establish and strengthen
relationships
 content provider
 researcher
 communities
 bureau, management
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Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
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26. bibliotheca bibliothecarum
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Contact:
A.-M. Turcan-Verkerk
bureau@biblissima-condorcet.fr
Maison des sciences de l’homme Paris Nord
(3 rue de la Croix Faron, 93210 La Plaine Saint-Denis)
http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr
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Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
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Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
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