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Name of Collaboratory :
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Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material (COLLATE)
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Logo :
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URL :
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http://www.collate.de/index.htm |
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Collaboratory Status
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| Operational
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Start Date :
2000
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End Date :
2003
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Primary Collaboratory Function :
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Distributed Research Center |
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Secondary Collaboratory Functions :
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Product Development, Expert Consultation |
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Domain(s)
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Cultural heritage |
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Brief Description
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COLLATE will develop a Web-based collaboratory for archivists, researchers, and end-users to access and work with digitized cultural materials from three major film archives in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Using an XML document repository system, COLLATE will allow access to domain experts and end-users to index, annotate, and search. The multi-format, multimedia archives consist primarily of historic textual documents as well as a subset of enriched film documentation including photos, posters, and film fragments. The three archives will act as the first pilot users.
COLLATE's goals are to ensure collaborative accessibility of cultural heritage and establish evidence for the acceptability of a collaboratory in the historical domain. On top of the distributed digital repository, COLLATE will function as a "collaboratory in use," supporting distributed user groups by dedicated knowledge management facilities like content-based access, comparison, and in-depth indexing/annotation of digitized sources. Historians and domain experts will provide in-depth annotations in an effort to create an expert knowledge base. Professionals' experience with the system will be documented and empirically evaluated.
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Access to
Instruments :
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Not Applicable |
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Access to
Information Resources :
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Remote access to distributed database containing digitized archive and expert annotations |
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Access to
People as Resources :
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Not Applicable |
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Funding Agency
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Information Society Technologies - Eurpean Commission (IST) |
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Preservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage Unit - IST - European Commission (DigiCULT) |
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Notes on Funding Agencies/Sponsors:
European Commission under the IST Programme's Cultural Heritage action lines (IST-1999-20882)
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Communications Technology
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Standard groupware products, plus:
1. integration of advanced document processing and groupware functions to allow for collaborative inspection and interpretation of source material, e.g., tagging, annotating and interlinking;
2. support of specific tasks and conventions in scholarly work, such as protection of intellectual property where individuals or groups contribute unpublished parts of their work or assets;
3. organization of discussions and typical procedures of scholarly work, such as preparing a source edition or assembling and creating material for an exhibition or publication. |
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Technical
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Management of technical resources
Access control/login facilities
Support for transition between synch and asynch
Directory of services/experts/resources
Asynchronous object sharing
Index/metadata, General search capability, Vetted knowledge based of multiple authors, Email/attachments
Asynchronous conversation
Annotation on objects, Threaded discussion, Web forms, Email
Synchronous object sharing
Telepointers/annotation, Application sharing
Synchronous conversation
Instant messaging/chat
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Key Articles : |
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Stein, A., Keiper, J., Bezerra, L., Brocks, H., & Thiel, U. (2004). Collaborative research and documentation of European film history: The COLLATE Collaboratory Journal of Digital Information Management, 2(1), 30-39.
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Images
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COLLATE architecture
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COLLATE architecture
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