Presentation for the international workshop: Creating a digital research environment as a tool to enhance transnational and comparative research on European colonial built heritage (c. 1850-1970), November 18-20, 2012
Automating Google Workspace (GWS) & more with Apps Script
The repository from an IT point of view
1. European colonial built heritage
The repository from an IT Point of View
Paul Suijker, 19-11-2012
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4. Institutional repository
(Wikipedia)
“An institutional repository is an online locus for collecting,
preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual
output of an institution, particularly a research institution.”
8. Subject repository
(Wikipedia)
“A repository established to collect and preserve material in a particular
discipline or subject is called a disciplinary repository or subject
repository; they can be organized by a government, a government
department, or by a research or academic institution, or be
autonomous.”
“Some of the best known are arXiv for mathematics and physics articles or
reports, PubMed Central for biomedical journal articles, and CiteSeerX for
computer and information science articles and reports.”
12. Project objective
Building a repository for:
• European built colonial architecture (subject)
• 1850-1970 (period)
Containing material:
• images, books, maps, articles, journals
• (information about) architects
• (information about) buildings
From different institutions in NL and abroad:
• KIT, KITLV, NAi, TU Delft Library, …
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18. MODS example
<titleInfo>
<title>Plattegrond van Batavia</title>
<subTitle>Schaal 1:20000</subTitle>
</titleInfo>
<……>
</…..>
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20. Why MODS?
• Repository with mixed content
• Images can well be described with MODS
• CDWA Lite not applicable for linking
• Disseminations to CDWA Lite can easily be made
22. Architect (fields)
• Name + initials
• Full name
• Date of birth, place/country of birth
• Date of death, place/country of death
• Nationality
• Education
• Website
23. Architect (fields)
• Wolff Schoemaker, C.P.
• Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker
• 1882-07-25, Banyu Biru, Indonesia
• 1949-05-22, Bandung, Indonesia
• Dutch
• Koninklijke Militaire Academie
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolff_Schoemaker
24. Building (fields)
• Name, alternative name
• Architect
• Date
• Continent, country, city, street
• Geonames (geographical code)
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (subject codes)
• Coordinates
25. Building (fields)
• Villa Isola, Bumi Siliwangi
• Wolff Schoemaker, C.P.
• Asia, Indonesia, Bandung, Jalan Ranu Manggala
• -56.861 107.594, S 6°51'40" E 107°35'38"
• 1933
• gn:1650357 (GeoNameId)
• aat:300005517 (AAT subject code)
• aat:300021426 (AAT subject code)