1. A Repository of Cultural Heritage Objects: Criteria of Annotation and Archiving Carina Kargl & Elisabeth Steiner Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Universität Graz

2. Outline o About the project o Resources o Structure & features web portal o Challenges & approaches o Metadata categories and their annotation

3. „Repository of Styrian Cultural Heritage“ o 2014-2016 o Financed by the Federal Ministry („Hochschulraumstrukturmittel“) o Cooperation partners  University of Graz (lead partner)  University of Technology Graz  University of Music and Performing Arts Graz  GrazMuseum  Universalmuseum Joanneum  Styrian Provincial Government about the project

4. „Repository of Styrian Cultural Heritage“ o Aims at the processing, protection, publication and accessibility of digitized Styrian cultural and scientific heritage o Builds a network of institutions and collections o Raises awareness for digital agenda o Creates a common web portal about the project

5. Digitized Resources o Manuscripts (medieval to modern) o Postcards and letters o Archival recordings o Historical photographs and lantern slides o Museum objects  Criminological  Archaeological  Numismatic  … resources

6. Diverse materials and partners resources

7. Functionalities web portal o Search  simple, full-text, facetted, advanced o Visualizations  maps, timelines, collections, networks… o Virtual exhibitions and showcases  „digital strolling“, teaser structure & features

8. o Long-term preservation strategies o Search through all collections within the portal o Approaches  Flexible preservation repositories  Interfaces  Harvesting  Data mapping Heterogeneous technical infrastructures challenges & approaches

9. Heterogeneous content & metadata o disciplines, terminology and traditions o inventory vs. deep annotation o old and non-systematic annotations o Approaches  homogenisation of metadata core categories required for the web portal  quality control  controlled vocabularies challenges & approaches

10. Metadata core categories Category institution controlled list time ISO 8601 (JJJJ-MM-TT) place GeoNames, TGN person GND, VIAF object type controlled list (manuscript, postcard, etc.) media type text, image, audio, video short description/title meaningful & explicit categories

11. Other „challenging“ categories Category material controlled vocabulary measurements/format measurement units, separator, … keywords controlled vocabulary transcription distinction between information about & information from an object historical terms categories

12. Summary o Complex task: > acknowledge diversity but get to a common denominator o More challenges to come, but: similar problems for all partners and collections o Communication & advice are crucial!

13. Thank you! More information: wissenschaftserbe.uni-graz.at or contact: carina.kargl@uni-graz.at elisabeth.steiner@uni-graz.at