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BCAD Architecture

BCAD Architecture. 2009 British Cartoon Archive. Projects. BCAD. A project to digitise and catalogue the Carl Giles Archive to current international standards and to redevelop the BCA website to significantly increase its accessibility and usability. Verdi.

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BCAD Architecture

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  1. BCAD Architecture 2009 British Cartoon Archive

  2. Projects BCAD A project to digitise and catalogue the Carl Giles Archive to current international standards and to redevelop the BCA website to significantly increase its accessibility and usability. Verdi A project to generalise the BCAD infrastructure and standards and then demonstrate the applicability of the architecture by using it to make the enhanced digital content from three collections available on the web: Tom Webster sporting cartoons, Muggeridge windmills and watermills and the Renfew Archaeological photos of the Orkney Islands.

  3. Overview • Verdi and BCAD have funded large disk arrays which can make some space available for other collections. This will need to be monitored and, where possible, digitisation project funding should try to add capacity to the storage array. • Frequency and manual vs automated will depend on the system. • (3) 6 Mandatory ISAD(g) fields (easily mapped to Dublin Core) plus description: Unique reference number, title, date, • level, Extent/physical description, name of creator(s), description

  4. Overview of architecture Web users Website Data handling systems Image repository Archive management Image upload and resize scripts Staff

  5. Image delivery (3) Record view with metadata (4) Zoom functionality (2) Results with thumbnails (1) Simple / advanced search Or in a more visual way…

  6. Website – (1) Search form (Advanced search)

  7. Website – (2) Results with thumbnails

  8. Website – (3) Record view with metadata

  9. Website – (4) Zoom functionality

  10. Image-related possibilities • Searching across collections and content (e.g. flat website content, book catalogues, digital repositories) • Security (images could be restricted to internal use, to other HE/FEs etc) • Exposing the full archival hierarchy • Grouping and sharing images /creating lists of favourites • Virtual exhibitions • Data sharing/harvesting • Additional metadata and related facets The following have been implemented within the BCAD project and, while outside of the scope of VERDI, are possible with small amounts of development.

  11. Website-related possibilities • Inclusion of questionnaires, comments and other Web 2.0 functionality • Single sign-on • User roles and management • E-commerce functionality (including buying images) • Searching and displaying additional metadata and facets • Creating facets to static website content • Multi-site capabilities • WYSIWYG content editing Drupal was the CMS selected for the BCAD project and has now been selected as the University CMS solution. It is very powerful, extensible, and well-supported. Possible extensions include:

  12. Catalogue (e.g. Calm / Modes) Data handling systems • Drupal communicates with data handling systems Fedora and Solr. • Solr - Search engine, stores limited metadata for search results. • Faceted searching a strong feature of Solr. • Fedora is a digital repository, storing full record details. • Data between two systems originates from the same source. Export from catalogue system Website Solr (for searching) Fedora (for displaying record)

  13. Example of a Solr XML object for BCAD

  14. Catalogue system (e.g. Calm / Modes) Enter and maintain: Access to all versions of images Digital image (medium resolution) • Public metadata • Internal Archive management The cataloguing process Manual process administrative metadata To demonstrate our catalogue system…

  15. Demonstration of a record in Calm See accompanying set of video files.

  16. Archive management The image process Manual process Automated batch process of images (thumb, med, zoom) Archival master enhanced (if required) Copy both to disk array Archival master scanned To demonstrate our image processing system…

  17. Demonstration of image batch and zoomify batch process See accompanying set of video files.

  18. To conclude… • A demo clip of the website in action. • Questions.

  19. Website demonstration See accompanying set of video files.

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