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Metadata Architecture and Application for the National Digital
Archives Program in TaiwanProgress Report
Ya-ning Arthur Chen
Computing Centre, Academia Sinica
16 Dec., 2002
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Supportive boundary
• MAAT (Metadata Architecture and Application Team) supports 37 disciplinary projects of the National Digital Archives Program in Taiwan, which is sponsored by the NSC from 2001, for cultural heritage.
• These projects are heterogeneous.
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Projects1
• The Digital Archives of Rubbings and Archaic Texts
• Digital Archives of Chinese Archaeological Data
• Digital Archive for Rare Books of Fu Ssu-Nien Library
• Digital Library for Ethnological Specimen, Photos and Archives
• Taiwan Aborigine: Ping-pu group
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Projects2
• Digital Library of Taiwan Herbarium• Zoological Research of Taiwan: Fish and
Mollusks• Digital Library Project of National
Museum of Natural Science• Digital Library Project of National
Museum of History• Taiwan Memory Digital Photo Museum
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Projects3
• Digital Museum of Taiwan’s Social and Humanities Video Archive
• Linguistics Anchoring and Language Archive of Digital Archives
• Digital Archives Project of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at the National Palace Museum
• Digital Library Project of Chinese Antiquities at the National Palace Museum
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Projects4
• GIS Project for Modern Chinese Historic Atlas and Aerial Photos
• Digital Archives Project of the Office of Governor-General in Taiwan
• Digital Library Project for Official Economic and Diplomatic Archives
• Digital Archives Program: Academia Historica• Knowledge Base of Taiwanese Earthquake (921)
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Attributes of these Projects1st – data types and styles1
• Chinese rubbings
• Rare books
• Archives (focused on non-current records, such as economy, foreign affairs, ancient administrative documents in Ming and Ching Dynasty)
• Corpus – modern language, poetry, etc.
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Attributes of these Projects1st – data types and styles2
• Artifacts at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, such as Chinese paintings, calligraphy, jade, china, enamel, lacquer works, and so on
• Specimen – fish, plants in Taiwan
• Field works
• Films and photos
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Attributes of these projects2nd – research disciplines
• Arts and the humanities– Aboriginal study / Ethnology– Archaeological study– Arts– Linguistics– History– Chinese literature, such as poetries in Tang and
Sung Dynasty
• Social Sciences– Economy– Diplomatic affairs
• Bio-diversity
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Attributes of these projects3rd - functionality
• Description• Resources discovery• Filtering• Exhibition• E-Preservation• Rights-Management• Organizational Management• Others
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Attributes of these projects4th - communities
• Archives
• Libraries
• Museums
• Herbaria
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Standards Used1
• CDWAThe Digital Archive of Rubbings and Archaic Texts, Digital Archives Project of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at the National Palace Museum, Digital Archives Project of Chinese Antiquities at the National Palace Museum
• CIDOC of ICOMTaiwan Aborigines
• OLACLinguistics Anchoring and Language Archive of Digital Archives
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Standards Used2
• EADDigital Archives Project of the Office of Governor-General in Taiwan, Digital Library Project for Official Economic and Diplomatic Archives, Digital Archives Program: Academia Historica
• TEI LiteDigital Archive for Rare Books of Fu Ssu-Nien Library
• HISPIDDigital Library of Taiwan Herbarium
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Standards Used3
• CSDGMDigital Library of Taiwan Herbarium
Zoological Research of Taiwan: Fish and Mollusks
• ECHO – an FRBR-basedDigital Museum of Taiwan’s Social and Humanities Video Archive
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Standards Used4
• ADL-based Gazetteera collaborative project with UCB under sponsored by NSF (A multilingual gazetteer system for integrating spatial and cultural resources)
• USMARC21-basedFor person and family Metadata
• DCAll projects
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Standards Used5 Status Quo Progress
• Standards used– Adopt a standard, or an application profile a
pproach– Generic: Dublin Core– Domain-specific: CDWA, EAD, CSDGM, HI
SPID 3, , OLAC, Species 2000, TEI Lite, USMARC-21, and so on.
– A list
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Major Achievements
• A Model for Metadata Standard Selection• A Metadata Continuum Model• Metadata – Information Interaction• Generic Metadata Attributes• A two-parallel Strategy for cross-walking• Chinese Copyright of Metadata Standards and
International Collaboration• On-demand Metadata Service
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A Model for MD Standard Selection
Library, Archives, Museum, HerbariumCommunityLayer
Rubbing, Rare Book, Photo, Audio, FilmSpecimen, Archive, Field Report, etc.
Data TypeLayer
Resource Discovery, Description, ExhibitionRights management, Preservation,etc.
DisciplineLayer
Art, Archaeology, History, EthnologyLinguistics, Biodiversity, Gene,etc.
FunctionLayer
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Metadata Continuum Model
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• 4 phases, and 12 steps• Phase 1: Requirement Assement & Content analysis• Phase 2: System Requirement Specification
– Metadata Specification– Metadata System Evaluation
• Phase 3: Metadata Testbed– Including Best Practice
• Phase 4: Evaluation• http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~metadata
Metadata System Service
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拓片Rubbing
Context-centric approach: Chinese Rubbings
Book A
Appeared in
Ref. Literature
Reference to/from
相關拓片Related Rubbing
Related to
原件Original Stone/Wood
Stemmed from
全形拓Whole Frame
銘文拓片Inscription
器影Image
Ver. A(1,2,…)Ver. B(1,2,…)
Ver. A(1,2,…)Ver. B(1,2,…)
Ver. A(1,2,…)Ver. B(1,2,…)
Rubbed into
印記、題跋…Seals
Attached with
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FishBase (ICLARM)
The Fish Database of Taiwan(http://fishdb.sinica.edu.tw )
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Context-centric: Fish DB
Species name
Characteristic
Specimen
Distribution
Species NameAuthority File in
Chinese
A Directory forVariations ofSpecies name
Fish DB
Specimen DB
Ref. DB
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Context-centric: artworks at NPM
幻燈片(出版組)
照片(出版組)
數位檔(資訊中心)
版本 A(1,2,…)版本 B(1,2,…)
版本 A(1,2,…)版本 B(1,2,…)
版本 A(1,2,…)版本 B(1,2,…)
Photo-ed into
Photo-ed into
Copied into
Copied into
器物二(器物組)
器物一(器物組)
參考資料(器物組)
展覽資料(器物組)
Reference to/fromRelated exhibition
Related to
放置處(登記組)
Researched by
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Metadata- Information Interaction
Capture & creation
Storage
Organization
Rights management
Access & Distribution Control
Archiving & Preservation
MetadataLifecycle
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Generic Metadata Attributes
object
person
Placename
Time-span
event
event
event
thingevent
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Generic Metadata Attributes2
Application Profile Approach• Person, Family, and Institute
USMARC 21-based• Time-span
under development• Place Name
A hybrid approach of ADL and TGN will be examined.
• Eventunder development based on ABC Model
All will be constructed to be various thesaurus systems.
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UFBD
TitleAuthorDateTOC
SubjectGeographic Name
Note
ISO-8601
LCNAF
EAD
TEI Lite
GIS
Local Elements
ADL GCS
Application Profile
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Parallel Strategy
Generic
Dublin Core
Domain-specific
CDWA, EAD, FGDC, TEI Liteand so on.
For the public, anda base for cross-domaininteroperability.
For a discipline-oriented, in-depth, and precise search.
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Standards – Intl’ collaboration
• Copyright for Chinese version– ADL
– CDWA
– EAD
– MIDAS
– HISPID
– OLAC – by The Linguistics Anchoring and Language Archive of Digital Archives
– TEI Lite
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On-demand Metadata Service
Generic
Community
Disciplinary Domain
Local specific
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Future Works
• Metadata Registry
• Metadata Klearinghouse
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Metadata Registry
MD Standards
Application Profiles
Best Practices
Thesauruses
Specifications
DB Schemas
REGISTRY
Namespace 1
Namespace 2
Namespace 3
Namespace 4
Namespace 5
Namespace 6
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