1. FACES General Overview ViRR (Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht) Software Solutions Kristina Büchner and Bastien Saquet Contact:Kristina Buechner: buechner@mpdl.mpg.de Bastien Saquet: saquet@mpdl.mpg.de Max Planck Digital Library · Amalienstrasse 33 · 80799 München · www.mpdl.mpg.de July 2009 Main Functionalities Browse collection and albums Detailed viewing of an image Advanced metadata search Album (subset of images) management Create, edit, publish, and withdraw an album Add and remove pictures Upcoming Functionalities Metadata editor with validation service Ingestion of images Sharing of albums Solution for Management of Image Collections FACES provides an advanced tool for researchers to store, manage, enrich, share, and publish collections of scientific image data. Partners Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (pilot institute) FACES collection, http://faces.mpdl.mpg.de National Institute for Materials Science, Japan Diamonds collection Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Rostock University FACES-Rostock collection (based on original FACES collection) Contact: faces-support@gwdg.de Export of an album Metadata formats: xml, csv Image formats: thumbnail, web resolution, original Usage statistics Specific Solution Specific Solution requires generalizes Data A Instance A extends Generic Solution Generic Solution Solution for Management of Digitized Text Resources VIRR is a virtual research platform for the digital preservation, enhancement and dissemination of cultural heritage content like images and texts. Main Functionalities Browse collection and textual entities Detailed viewing of single pages Online editing workspace for structural content Create, edit, and publish table of contents for each textual entity Build logical combination between scans and structural elements Generate original pagination Enrich structural elements with descriptive metadata Edit and publish bibliographic metadata On the fly METS export to the DFG Viewer (http://dfg-viewer.de) Upcoming Functionalities Advanced search within all metadata Compilation and export of images (as jpgs or within one pdf) Integration of Digilib (enhanced viewing environment: zoom, navigate, etc.) Integration and storage of transcriptions Linkage of ViRR to other relevant online resources (e.g. OPAC of the institute) Content enrichment via annotations Partners Max Planck Institut for European Legal History, Frankfurt Legal artifacts of the period of the Holy Roman Empire, http://test-virr.mpdl.mpg.de:8080/virr Contact: virr-support@gwdg.de Figure 2: Browse within the Diamonds collection Figure 4: Search within the FACES collection Figure 3: Details of one image of the Diamonds collection Figure 5: Statistics - number of executed log-ins Figure 6: Album with images of the FACES collection Configurable user interface Notepad management Integration of Digilib (enhanced viewing environment: zoom, navigate, etc.) Interested Institutions Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching Max Planck Institute for Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen Humboldt University, Berlin Data B Figure 1: Development approach of a software solution Software solutions are e-science web applications based on the eSciDoc infrastructure. Solutions are mainly about using and re-using scientific data. This will be realized through: Data retrieval and data enrichment (metadata management) Collaborative online working environment Data persistence Versioning Persistent identifier (PID) Interoperability Following Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) recommendations Defining DCMI Abstract Model (DCAM) and Description Set Profile (DSP) Figure 7: Browsing the VIRR collection Figure 9: Editing environment (left-side: paginator, right side: table of content with descriptive metatdata of the selected structured element). Figure 8: Details of a textual entity Development Approach The software is first developed in cooperation with one institute to serve a specific research scenario based on a particular data set and then is extended to cover a larger scope of scientific scenarios. An instance is a working version of the generic solution, configured for one specific data set. The generic solution is extendable (“extended solution”) to add new specific features. Software Usage Open source project Code source accessible and documented Usage of Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) MPDL support Consultancy for installation (application profile, configuration) Improvement and special features implementation Interested Institutions Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz (KHI), Florenz Historical travel guides, antiquarian literature, rare-book collection, a 19th century journal Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Institute series, 18th and 19th century advisory literature Configuration Application Profile Configuration Application Profile Configuration Application Profile Pilot Instance Pilot Instance Instance B Feedback Researc h Scenario Pilot Data MPDL Pilot Institute Institute A Institute B New Features Extended Solution Extended Solution This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/