A Digital Archive of Cultural Heritage Objects: Standardized Metadata and Annotation Categories
Elisabeth Steiner, Carina Koch · New Review of Information Networking · 2015
The project “Repository of Styrian Cultural Heritage” aims to build a digital archive of cultural heritage objects. The implementation of a common platform poses two challenges: 1) the partners use more than one preservation infrastructure, which requires a consensus for harvesting mechanisms and update workflows; and 2) the nature of the digital objects ranges from manuscripts or other text-based resources to artifacts from various contexts. With respect to information retrieval and in order to implement a uniform object representation, a consistent data basis is obligatory. In this context, the article will introduce our approaches to content curation and quality control.