A Contribution to Web Digital Archive Integration from the Parliamentary Management System 'SLAP'

摘要

Nowadays, millions of users choose the web as their main communication channel. As a consequence, everyday we find more activities (government, commerce, finance, digital libraries...) developed through the web. Archives are an example of this trend. They are being digitized and there is already an important initiative to standardize web access to them. Firstly, this paper introduces the SIAP system we have bui it has been running at the Asamblea of Madrid since 1999. Secondly, we present DAWIS-UPM project (Digital Archive Web Information System) whose main goal is to design a web architecture providing integrated access to different digital archives. This architecture is based on mediators and wrappers making the virtual, flexible and dynamic 'on-the-fly' integration of digital archives possible. Finally, a semantic integration -based on ontologies, according to current international archival standards- is here proposed.