EDLnet D2.5 Europeana Outline Functional Specification For development of an operational European Digital Library

摘要

1 INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................52 FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION PRINCIPLES & METHODOLOGYBACKGROUND AND CONTEXT.......................................................................52.1 Methodology 52.1.1 Use Case Analysis........................................................................................................................52.1.2 Use Case Management .................................................................................................................52.1.3 Use-Case Model layout ................................................................................................................53 USER GROUPS AND REQUIREMENTS .......................................................53.1 End users 53.1.1 Group Characteristics...................................................................................................................53.1.2 Group Expectations......................................................................................................................73.2 External applications / API 83.2.1 Group Characteristics...................................................................................................................83.2.2 Group Expectations......................................................................................................................83.3 Content aggregators / providers 93.3.1 Group Expectations......................................................................................................................93.3.1.1 Content providers..................................................................................................................93.3.1.2 Content aggregators..............................................................................................................93.3.1.3 Europeana expectations ......................................................................................................103.3.2 Repository management and data collection functionalities......................................................103.4 Service providers 113.4.1 Group Characteristics.................................................................................................................113.4.2 Group Expectations....................................................................................................................113.5 Meta users 123.5.1 Group Characteristics.................................................................................................................123.5.2 Group Expectations....................................................................................................................123.5.2.1 Meta users / Administrators................................................................................................123.6 Policy makers 123.6.1 Group Characteristics.................................................................................................................123.6.2 Group Expectations....................................................................................................................124 EUROPEANA SYSTEM FUNCTIONAL VISION............................................ 134.1 Europeana Basic Concepts 134.1.1 Actors .........................................................................................................................................134.1.1.1 Access.................................................................................................................................134.1.1.2 Content provision................................................................................................................134.1.1.3 System management ...........................................................................................................134.1.1.4 Service monitoring..............................................................................................................144.1.2 Logical data model: Objects and Surrogates..............................................................................144.1.1.5 Surrogates ...........................................................................................................................154.1.1.6 Associations........................................................................................................................174.1.2 Europeana Metadata Requirements............................................................................................204.1.2.1 Object metadata ..................................................................................................................204.1.2.2 User metadata......................................................................................................................244.1.2.3 Provider metadata ...............................................................................................................244.1.3 Queries .......................................................................................................................................254.1.4 Index Resources .........................................................................................................................274.2 Functional Model Overview 294.2.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................294.2.2 Capture and Dissemination ........................................................................................................31Europeana Outline Functional SpecificationVersion 1.0 25 May 2008 34.2.3 Object management....................................................................................................................314.2.4 Discovery ...................................................................................................................................324.2.5 User ............................................................................................................................................334.2.6 Access.........................................................................................................................................335 INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONAL AREAS.......................................................... 335.1 End User Use Cases 335.1.1 Interaction of Europeana with End Users...................................................................................335.1.1.1 Find a known object............................................................................................................345.1.1.2 Browse surrogates having a known property (such as subject) ..........................................355.1.2 Interaction of Europeana with providers / aggregators..............................................................355.1.2.1 Europeana Object Model ....................................................................................................355.1.2.2 Metadata..............................................................................................................................355.1.2.3 'Semantic' Issues .................................................................................................................355.1.2.4 Identifiers/Versioning .........................................................................................................365.1.2.5 Rights Management and commercial aspects.....................................................................365.1.2.6 Ingestion/Delivery Methods................................................................................................365.2 Application Interaction Layer 375.2.1 Description .................................................................................................................................375.2.1.1 Interaction protocols ...........................................................................................................375.2.1.2 Supporting development .....................................................................................................385.2.2 Constraints and assumptions......................................................................................................395.3 Europeana Component Interaction Layer 395.3.1 Description .................................................................................................................................395.3.1.1 Components Interaction Facilities ......................................................................................395.3.1.2 Inter-Component communication .......................................................................................395.3.1.3 Data Repositories................................................................................................................395.3.1.4 Transaction management functionalities ............................................................................405.3.1.5 Caching ...............................................................................................................................405.3.2 Constraints and assumptions......................................................................................................405.4 Capture and Dissemination 405.4.1 Description .................................................................................................................................405.4.2 Constraints and assumptions......................................................................................................415.5 Managing Europeana Objects 415.5.1 Description .................................................................................................................................415.5.2 Constraints and assumptions......................................................................................................425.6 Search, Exploration and Discovery 425.6.1 Description .................................................................................................................................425.6.2 Simple Search Manager .............................................................................................................435.6.3 Advanced Search Manager.........................................................................................................445.6.4 Result Manager ..........................................................................................................................465.6.5 Navigation Manager...................................................................................................................485.6.6 External Search Manager (Search gateway) ..............................................................................495.6.7 Community Manager..................................................................................................................505.6.8 User Content Manager (MyEuropeana) .....................................................................................505.7 Managing Users 515.7.1 Description .................................................................................................................................515.7.2 Constraints and assumptions......................................................................................................525.8 Managing Access 525.8.1 Description .................................................................................................................................525.8.2 Constraints and assumptions......................................................................................................525.9 System Administration 535.9.1 Description .................................................................................................................................535.9.2 Constraints and assumptions......................................................................................................53Europeana Outline Functional SpecificationVersion 1.0 25 May 2008 46 MULTILINGUAL ISSUES......................................................................... 536.1 Interface 536.2 Browsing 536.3 Search on a monolingual baseline 546.3.1 Monolingual Search for Multiple Languages.............................................................................546.3.2 Simple Cross-language Search...................................................................................................546.3.3 Multilingual Search ....................................................................................................................546.4 Result translation 557 REFERENCES........................................................................................ 558 INDEX.................................................................................................. 569 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.......................................................................... 60