1. e-Curator: A Web-based Curatorial Tool Ian Brown, Mona Hess Sally MacDonald, Francesca Millar Yean-Hoon Ong, Stuart Robson Graeme Were UCL Museums & Collections University College London UK e-Science ALL HANDS MEETING 2008, 8 – 11 September, Edinburgh, UK

2. Presentation Outline Project context. e-Curator web interface. e-Curator implementation: current architecture and future development.

3. e-Curator: Project Aims 3D colour scanning: to develop a traceable methodology for recording surface detail and colour quality of a range of object types and materials. e-Science technologies: the deployment of e- Science for the sharing of the collected 3D data sets and related metadata between disparate locations and institutions.

4. e-Curator: 3D Colour Scanning Arius3D Foundation Model 150 colour scanner. 3D models: –provide information about overall shape and colours and surface details. –provide a digital record of an object’s condition. –help in the computerized study of artists’ structure and techniques.

5. e-Curator: Web Interface

9. Tumble Pan Zoom Rotate

10. e-Curator: Web Interface Lighting displayColour display

11. e-Curator: Web Interface

12. Different sets of raw and processed 3D data:  ‘aligned’: without colour or point processing  ‘processed’: with cleaned colours and geometry  ‘presentation’: with optimised colours and data voids  single scan files: constituent data

13. e-Curator: Web Interface Object metadata

14. e-Curator: Web Interface Scanning metadata: metadata concerning scan process and post processing

15. e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture Storage Resource Broker (SRB): –A software tool developed by San Diego Supercomputer Centre (SDSC) –Primary features: Supports access to data distributed across multiple storage repositories. Allows users to add metadata to describe the content of the files. Allows data to be replicated from remote into local databases.

16. e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture Data insertion tool Web server MCAT Database SRB vault /ucl/home/e-curator/gallery The Internet SRB server UCL zone

17. Data insertion tool Web server SRB vault /ucl/home/e-curator/gallery The Internet SRB server UCL zone e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture MCAT Database SRB server: performs data management operations in conjunction with the MCAT database SRB server MCAT Database MCAT database: hosted within PostgreSQL a metadata repository for storing internal system data and application metadata SRB vault SRB vault: stores 3D data sets

18. MCAT Database SRB vault /ucl/home/e-curator/gallery SRB server UCL zone Data insertion tool Web server The Internet e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture Web server: contains Java Servlets and JSP pages to perform interactions with SRB server Web server Data insertion tool Data insertion tool: to upload 3D data sets into SRB vault and to annotate the data with relevant metadata

19. Web server SRB vault /ucl/home/e-curator/gallery The Internet SRB server UCL zone e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture MCAT Database SRB vault SRB server Web server MCAT Database The Internet

20. e-Curator Implementation: Future Federation Web server MCAT Database SRB vault /ucl/home/e-curator/gallery The Internet SRB server UCL zone Database SRB vault /museumA/home/e-curator/gallery SRB server MuseumA zone MCAT Database SRB vault /museumA/home/e-curator/gallery SRB server MuseumA zone MCAT Database SRB vault /museumA/home/e- curator/gallery SRB server MuseumA zone MCAT Replication & synchronization

21. e-Curator: A Web-based Curatorial Tool e-Curator web interface: http://data02.geospatial.ucl.ac.uk:8080/ eCurator05/pages/main.jsp e-Curator project: http://www.museums.ucl.ac.uk/ research/ecurator Contact: e-curator@ucl.ac.uk UK e-Science ALL HANDS MEETING 2008, 8 – 11 September, Edinburgh, UK