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Monasterium.net Evolution of a Portal Daniel Jeller. Overview. What is Monasterium.net Why is this interesting A short history Phase 1: Findbuch.net Phase 2: EditMOM Phase 3: MOM-CA Phase 4: MOM-CA 2.0 and onward Conclusion. What is Monasterium.net. Collaborative Archive.
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Monasterium.net Evolution of a Portal Daniel Jeller
Overview • What is Monasterium.net • Why is this interesting • A short history • Phase 1: Findbuch.net • Phase 2: EditMOM • Phase 3: MOM-CA • Phase 4: MOM-CA 2.0 and onward • Conclusion
What is Monasterium.net • Collaborative Archive • Medieval Charters • MOM • Scientific Community
Who is Monasterium.net • Over 200.000 documents • Over 100 Archives • 12 European Countries • Free of charge
Why is this interesting • 10 years continuous development • Changes of focus and technology • International project partners
A Short History • Focus: Lower Austria • Passive Archive • Proprietary Database • 2002-2005 • Increase in Scope: Central Europe • Native Open Source XML Database • GUI XML Editor as Java Applet • 2005-2008 • Overhaul of Database structure • Editor-Redesign using AJAX techniques • 2008-2011 • Completely new features • 2012
Phase 1: Findbuch.net • Simple passive web presentation: Metadata and images • Search function • Cooperation with German company Augias-Data • Proprietary database • In 2005 approximately 20.000 charters
Phase 2: EditMOM • Software development by the HKI / University of Cologne • Online Editor for Metadata as a JAVA Applet • Open-Source native XML database eXist • XML data in CEI dialect
Problems • Database structure design not optimised for the large number of documents • JAVA applet too inconvenient for users and too difficult to maintain • New features too hard to add
Phase 3: MOM-CA • From 2008-2011 redesign • Database structure • Web interface • EditMOM software • In 2011 re-release as MOM-CA 1.5 • Same capabilities as previous versions
Phase 4: MOM-CA 2.0 • Image tools • Editor • Annotate image sections • Collect, compare and edit image sections • Publish image collections
Conclusion • Good planning might save time and effort • Development changes necessities • Continuous need for adaption • Adaption brings new possibilities
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