Planning a Digital Library
Planning a Digital Library
I.
Project
Preservation of the book Architektonische Motive in Barock und Rokoko : 100 Naturaufnahmen in Lichtdruck by the architect Johann Zeyer and presentation of its plates in a setting designed to aid understanding of the cultural history it is attempting to impart.
II.
Creators
Ida Garza - scanning plates and finding additional materials
Robin Cochran - designing Greenstone layout, art and music-related materials
Matt Brodie - metadata selection and history-related materials
III.
Purpose
The purpose of this project is to preserve the text of Johann Zeyer's architectural picture book Architektonische Motive in Barock und Rokoko : 100 Naturaufnahmen in Lichtdruck and to bolster the cultural context it carries with selected media representing the Baroque and Rococo periods as they influenced the city of Prague. The presentation will include developments in the arts, music, history and literature of the time period displayed in various media formats. The library will ideally include such items in a way that they can be immediately recognized as pertinent to the cultural record and relevant to Meyer's text. Artifacts will be included if they seem to fit this intention, hopefully avoiding a distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture.
IV.
Metadata Standards
The metadata will be customized to conform to the various kinds of media which will be included in the project. It is our intention to use Dublin Core or a customized standard which will be able to connect our disparate artifacts via essentials such as location, date, composer/designer, performer/builder, cultural genre, cultural period, source and presumably several more categories.
V.
Format
For this project we intend to make use of Greenstone 2.60, a production of the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato.
VI.
Access
It is our intention to make this collection private, at least for the time being.
VII.
Generating Artifacts
At the moment the only method which we have used to generate artifacts thus far was via scanning the main subject in at the library of Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, where the manuscript resides. It is our intention to collect media of other forms and no doubt our project will eventually require some digital recording and who knows what else.