Musica migrans Topic Maps portal about the migration paths of Eastern European musicians in the 19th century TMUC 2008

Musica migransTopic Maps portal about the migration paths of Eastern European musicians in the 19th centuryTMUC 2008 Oslo, April 2008 Lutz Maicher, University of Leipzig maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

How it all began … During a concert break we discussed with Prof. H. Loos, who is one of the leading German historians about the Eastern European music history that he dreams of a system which allows him to collectand analyse biographical data about little-known Eastern Europeanmusicians in the 19th century. He was interested in making usable all the relationships in the data! This sounded like a case forTopic Maps, so we asked Mr. Loos to sketch his domain… TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

primary nationality of a person Nationality … and he started to sketch the domain! has names birthplace of a person with a lot of different spellings Place Person place of death of a person has educational development place of educational phase has professional development place of a job has concerts place of a concert birthday of a person Date secondary nationality of a person day of death of a person start and end of educational phase goal of educational phase start and end of a job main profession of a person date of a concert Profession archive secondary profession of a person encyclopaedia Reference confessions of a person profession in a job Confession further literature TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Are Topic Maps well suited for such a project? • Roy Lachica published the "Checklist for deciding implementing Topic Maps" in his blog(http://fuzzzyblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/checklist-for-deciding-implementing.html) We will follow this checklist to get our points … TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Do we need a flexible data model? Do we have information consisting of diverse concepts and need to make distinctions between their relations and the roles the associations play among each other? Are we not sure if this conceptualisation will change in the future? 3 points total: 3/3 TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Do we need a high degree of semantic interoperability? Do we need a strong and accurate identification of subjects? 2 points total: 5/5 TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Do we need to merge semantic information from diverse sources? Do we want to share our information with other systems? 2 points total: 7/7 TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Do we develop a knowledge centric application? Is there a need for a paradigm that can collate everything known about any given set of subjects? 1 point total: 8/8 TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Do we access information using different navigation paths? Do we need a technology that is tailored for displaying multiple views in networked information structures? Do we need faceted navigation or search? 1 point total: 9/9 TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Do we need a strong separation between metadata and resources? Do we have authors that work with metadata and others that add or edit resources? 0 point total: 10/11 TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Do we have the goal to be the first to adopt new technologies? Yes. 1 point total: 11/12 TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Conclusion "If you got a sum of 3 or more points you might have a good reason for embarking on a Topic Map development project." our result: 11/12 it seems that we might have a good reason to use Topic Maps (-; TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

The perfect match … • Prof. H. Loos provides a very interesting use case for us • we provide an interesting technology for Prof. H. Loos • together we convinced the German federal gonvernment to spend funding for setting-up Musica migrans(Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien) • from October 2007 until June 2008 • funding for implementing the portal • funding to pay 25 historians from Eastern Europe to collect all information of the life courses of 50 musicians each= 1250 biographies Now we could start to implement the portal … TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Our approach for implementing Topic Maps portals … portal as hypertext system portal as software interface Jesse J. Garrett:The Elements of User Experience http://www.jjg.net/elements/pdf/elements_simpleplanes.pdf source: http://www.jjg.net/elements/ TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

TMUC 2008, Oslo, Lutz Maicher (maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de)

Musica migrans Topic Maps portal about the migration paths of Eastern European musicians in the 19th century TMUC 2008

Musica migrans Topic Maps portal about the migration paths of Eastern European musicians in the 19th century TMUC 2008

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ART IN 19TH CENTURY

The Piano in 19th Century America

us economy in the 19th century ii

19th Century

The British culture of 19th century

Manifest Destiny in the 19th Century

Russia in the 19th Century

Tenement Living in the Late 19th Century

The Gothic Revival in the 19th Century

Major Ideas of the 19th century

The 19th century

Immigration during the 19th Century

“Have we entered the 21st century still holding 19th century mental maps?”

Spain in the 19th Century

The troubled 19th century

Paris: Capital of the 19th century

Teaching Transnational Migration Since the Late-19th Century

The july 19th 2008

Revolutions in the First Half of the 19th Century

Living in London in the 19th century

The TAO of Topic Maps

Topic Maps 2008 Enterprise Knowledge Integration Using Topic Maps