Reflections on the ARQUIGRAFIA project intersections

Vânia Mara Alves Lima

School of Communications and Arts of University of São Paulo

Artur Rozestraten

School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Arquigrafia

project coordinator

Gabriela Previdello

Ph.D. student at the Graduate Program in Information Science at School of

Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo

Connecting Collections on the Open Web

www.arquigrafia.org.br

The Arquigrafia

Open, public and non-profit

collaborative environment on

the web, dedicated to the

dissemination of architectural

images, with a special focus

on brazilian architecture and

urban spaces.

Context

The multidisciplinary challenges of the Arquigrafia project

led to the creation of the Web Collaborative Environments

Research Center (NaWEB) (http://nap.usp.br/naweb)

School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU)

Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME)

School of Communications and Arts (ECA)

Law School (FD)

Approaches intersectionsArchitecture

- Debate on architecture, cultural heritage and documentation

- Collective knowledge ==> Individual knowledge

Library Science /Information Science

- representation of images, controlled vocabularies and users

participation

- knowledge organization in the brazilian architecture domain (digital

repository, the website databases)

- indexing languages x tags

Computer science

- Interoperability; Linked data; Ontologies; Semantic web and Information

retrieval

Objectives

- Preserve and disseminate the image collection of Brazilian

architecture of FAUUSP library collection.

- The convergence of private and public collections.

- Promote a continuous expansion of the collection, counting

on the web contribution.

- Improve public based full access to stimulate the

construction of an architectural visual culture.

The Audiovisual Library Collection

'The Imaginary Museum'

(André Malraux, 1947)

84,645 Slides

16,766 Photographs

49,500 Acetate negatives

400,000 Architectural drawings

4,150 Glass Negatives

First Steps Diagnosis of photographic documents

Mechanical Cleaning

Selection of relevant documents

34,000 slides

8,000 photographs

Cataloguing⇒Analysis of the Cataloguing Standards

AACR2; ISBD-NBM;CCO; CDWA)

Set of Metadata: Description: Title, Classification number, Name, Country, State, City,

District, Street, Image author, Picture date, Building author, Building

date, Notes, Registration number date, Cataloguing date

Technical: Dimensions, Width, Height, Resolution, Bit depth, Color

representation

Administrative: License (Creative Commons), Collection, Donors,

Authorization term for web broadcasting.

Terminology work

⇒ Library Subjects + Controlled Vocabulary + List of tags

Terminological standardization work

Aspects of Indexing Images

Denotation

Santa Efigenia bridge

Connotation

Bridges (any)

Context

Fair street at Santa Efigenia bridge on Sunday

Scanning and digital preservation

⇒ Digital repositories, backups and storage computing environments for

reading digital information

Equipment:

- Plustek Optic film 120

- SilverFast Ai Studio 8 (64-bit) software

Result

- Image => 5 Mb; 4,000; TIFF/JPG/PDF

- Storage => DVDs and external hard drives

No software color corrections to preserve original appearance of the

photographs and historical aspects.

Tools

Free Software

Groupware Workbench

The Apache ODF Toolkit.

Hibernate. Relational Persistence for Java

Mysql Database

Android for mobiles

Creative Commons

Results- 30,044 slides scanned

- 2,481 photographs on paper scanned

Public Profile- Architecture students (38.6%)

- Architects (23.4%)

- Graduate students in other areas (10.3%)

- Architecture professors (4.3%)

- Photographers (4.1%)

- Others ( 19,3%)

Next Steps (2016-2017)

- Conduct studies relating to binomials

- Adequacy of metadata set.

- Conduct usability studies.

- Expand the iconographic base of Arquigrafia

- Improve the indexing and implement search tools

INTEROPERABILITY WITH THE FUTURE

AND

COMMUNICATION THROUGH THE TIME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4gZyaVY8-Q

The Arquigrafia team

Thanks!

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