Center for Cultural Informatics Foundation for Research and Technology

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SYNTHESISAn information system for
administration documentation and promotion of
cultural instances
Center for Cultural InformaticsFoundation for
Research and Technology
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Basic features

• XML technology
• Multi layered architectures
• Open source software
• National and International standards

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Data organization

• Flexible and varied data structure
• semantically structured data model
• dynamic exploitation of the data in cultural
  sites in the internet
• translations of a document in more than one
  language
• fully compatible with ISO 21127
• best practices in data exchange

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• Museum instances
• Monuments instances
• Open sites and settlements instances
• Multimedia entities (photos, designs, studies
  etc)
• Bibliography entities
• Evidence entity
• Person entity
• Organization entity
• Department entity
• Place entity
• Material entity
• Event entity

Data organization
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Data organization

• Document metadata
• Object identification
• Detailed documentation
• Management
• References

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Documentation Procedures

• generic workflow
• basic user types
• basic document operations
• document status

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Basic document Operations

• creation new document
• creation new edition of a document
• editing process
• viewing documents
• application for publication
• publication
• publication reject
• publication recall
• deletion of a document

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Document Status

• private documents
• public documents
• documents under publication

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User types

• System administrator
• Organization administrator
• Editor
• Reader

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Work flow
Publication
Publication reject
Creation
Application for publication
Publication recall
New document
Under publication document
Private document
Public document
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System components
Functional components
web server
Web User Interface Cultural Site
Web User Interface XS1
database management server
Web User Interface XS2
Data base
Scientific database
Web User Interface SA
Internet
Public space
Entities Public documents
Web User Interface OA
Private space of ?S2
Private space of ?S1

System Architecture
Private documents
Private documents
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Basic software components

• data base eXist - native XML database
• functional components J2EE technology
  (java-servlets, jsp, web service)
• user interface internet browser, Java,
  Authentic

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Functional components

• Create and edit documents of cultural instances
  and entities
• Navigate and retrieve documents of cultural
  instances and entities
• Data migration
• translation to 5 European languages
• Associate documents of cultural instances and
  events