E-Curator: A Web-based Curatorial Tool Ian Brown, Mona Hess Sally MacDonald, Francesca Millar...

e-Curator: A Web-based Curatorial Tool

Ian Brown, Mona Hess

Sally MacDonald, Francesca Millar

Yean-Hoon Ong, Stuart Robson

Graeme Were

UCL Museums & Collections

University College London

UK e-Science ALL HANDS MEETING 2008, 8 – 11 September, Edinburgh, UK

Presentation Outline

• Project context.

• e-Curator web interface.

• e-Curator implementation: current architecture and future development.

e-Curator: Project Aims

• 3D colour scanning: to develop a traceable methodology for recording surface detail and colour quality of a range of object types and materials.

• e-Science technologies: the deployment of e-Science for the sharing of the collected 3D data sets and related metadata between disparate locations and institutions.

e-Curator: 3D Colour Scanning

• Arius3D Foundation Model 150 colour scanner.

• 3D models: – provide information about overall shape

and colours and surface details.

– provide a digital record of an object’s condition.

– help in the computerized study of artists’ structure and techniques.

e-Curator: Web Interface

e-Curator: Web Interface

e-Curator: Web Interface

e-Curator: Web Interface

e-Curator: Web Interface

Tumble Pan Zoom Rotate

e-Curator: Web Interface

Lighting display Colour display

e-Curator: Web Interface

e-Curator: Web Interface

• Different sets of raw and processed 3D data: ‘aligned’: without colour or

point processing ‘processed’: with cleaned

colours and geometry ‘presentation’: with

optimised colours and data voids

single scan files: constituent data

e-Curator: Web Interface

Object metadata

e-Curator: Web Interface

Scanning metadata: metadata concerning scan process and post processing

e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture

• Storage Resource Broker (SRB):– A software tool developed by San Diego

Supercomputer Centre (SDSC)– Primary features:

• Supports access to data distributed across multiple storage repositories.

• Allows users to add metadata to describe the content of the files.

• Allows data to be replicated from remote into local databases.

e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture

Data insertion

tool

Data insertion

tool

Web server Web server

MCAT

MCATDatabaseDatabase

SRB vaultSRB

vault/ucl/home/e-curator/gallery

The InternetThe Internet

SRB server SRB

server

UCL zone

Data insertion

tool

Data insertion

tool

Web server Web server

SRB vaultSRB

vault/ucl/home/e-curator/gallery

The InternetThe Internet

SRB server SRB

server

UCL zone

e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture

MCAT

MCATDatabaseDatabase

SRB server:• performs data management

operations in conjunction with the MCAT database

SRB server

MCATDatabase

MCAT database:• hosted within PostgreSQL• a metadata repository for

storing internal system data and application metadata

SRB vault

SRB vault:• stores 3D data sets

MCAT

MCATDatabaseDatabase

SRB vaultSRB

vault/ucl/home/e-curator/gallery

SRB server SRB

server

UCL zone

Data insertion

tool

Data insertion

tool

Web server Web server

The InternetThe Internet

e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture

Web server:• contains Java Servlets and

JSP pages to perform interactions with SRB server

Web server

Data insertion

tool

Data insertion tool:• to upload 3D data sets into

SRB vault and to annotate the data with relevant metadata

Web server Web server

SRB vaultSRB

vault/ucl/home/e-curator/gallery

The InternetThe Internet

SRB server SRB

server

UCL zone

e-Curator Implementation: Current Architecture

MCAT

MCATDatabaseDatabase

SRB vaultSRB

vault

SRB server SRB

server

Web server Web server

MCAT

MCATDatabaseDatabase

The InternetThe Internet

e-Curator Implementation: Future Federation

Web server Web server

MCAT

MCATDatabaseDatabase

SRB vaultSRB

vault/ucl/home/e-curator/gallery

The InternetThe Internet

SRB serverSRB

server

UCL zone

DatabaseDatabase

SRB vaultSRB

vault/museumA/home/e-curator/

gallery

SRB serverSRB

server

MuseumA zone

MCAT

MCAT DatabaseDatabase

SRB vaultSRB

vault /museumA/home/e-curator/gallery

/museumA/home/e-curator/gallery

SRB server

SRB server

MuseumA zoneMuseumA zone

MCAT

MCAT DatabaseDatabase

SRB vaultSRB

vault/museumA/home/e-curator/

gallery

SRB serverSRB

server

MuseumA zone

MCAT

MCAT

Replication & synchronization

e-Curator: A Web-based Curatorial Tool

• e-Curator web interface:

http://data02.geospatial.ucl.ac.uk:8080/

eCurator05/pages/main.jsp

• e-Curator project:

http://www.museums.ucl.ac.uk/

research/ecurator

• Contact:

e-curator@ucl.ac.uk

UK e-Science ALL HANDS MEETING 2008, 8 – 11 September, Edinburgh, UK