OA applications for special and media collections. Processing information from audio and image files and iconic objects: museums and archives

摘要

Currently the implementation of OAI-PMH is spreading to areas that were not originally developed. Initially data providers contained textual documents, generally from scientific literature. The first applications became in reaction of the Revolution of the Scientifics, which promoted free access to information. Today the landscape is undergoing by dramatic change. It is using this protocol to manage other materials, such as the heritage –historical press- or special media such as audio files, image and animated. However, we know few cases of DP targeted exclusively to this type of media. Identifying this kind of projects is interesting for using the best practices and the experience gained by other professionals to start our own projects.The purpose of this study is to identify success stories in the media handling outside the texts of scientific world to reach out and apply best practice to our projects.Three years ago we led an initiative to provide information on image data with a partial funding from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. The project PHOTOGRAPHY ON SPAIN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY adapts the photographic collection of the University of Navarra –Fondo Fotográfico Fundación Universidad de Navarra- to the requirements of the OAI-PMH http://coleccionfff.unav.es/bvunav Currently our goal is twofold: to expand the contents of this OAI compliant collection, and to gather and participate with similar initiatives.Materials and methodsWe began the study of all registered DP 2010 ROAR official records,http://roar.eprints.org and openarchives.org. We have introduced all the information in an Excel spreadsheet and have examined one by one to classify them according to media cited: real image -heritage or commercial photographies...-, motion pictures -video, animation, movies creation...-, audio material -music, voice, podcast...-, iconic objects -paintings, sculptures, ethnographic objects, drawings...-. From these, we selected the most significant projects according to subjective criteria: number of documents, prestige of the institution that develop the project, specificity of the material…ConclusionsWe were interested to know how they were describing and managing materials different than the traditional text. The study of these aspects offers these preliminary conclusions: the projects that address special materials often use specific software; and the description by simplified Dublin Core is not enough to handle this kind of materials.And as a general conclusion, it suggests that there are few projects devoted exclusively to non-textual materials