European Culturale Heritage Online

WP2 Know-how, Formats, Tools
WP2-TR 2-2002 Version 3


 

Intro

Mission statement

People

Recommendations

Technical reports

Existing know how

Existing Tools

Schemas and Format Descriptions

Standardization Initiatives

Important Dates

Links:

ECHO

ISLE

 


   

The ECHO project can offer already now at its start excellent know-how, information about formats and tools that can be offered to interested institutions. Only those technologies will be mentioned where ECHO partners have own experience and where it is expected that these technologies have a considerable impact at making cultural heritage online. The ECHO partners are interested to get more hints on other useful technology. However, only those entries will be listed where institutions involved in ECHO have gathered experience and can give advice. It is expected that this list will be upgraded regularly, since other institutes will join the network of expertise and since new technologies will become available and applied within the ECHO project.

We distinguish between

  • know-how that partners have and offer to other institutes and communities
  • special knowledge about formats that ECHO partners have and that they can process
  • specialized schemas (XML) that have been created by partners that are supported and
  • tools that are used or were created by partners.

For every item under formats, schemas and tools a contact address will be mentioned and a short description is given that identifies its purpose and state. Under tools, formats and schemas only those items will be mentioned that have been used already. Plans what will be developed within or without the ECHO framework will be described elsewhere on this site.

Know-how

(areas and technology where know-how is available within ECHO)

Topic

Institution

Email-Address

Multimedia Handling (Audio/Video) incl. digitization, tools

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

Handling of Photos and Scanned Images incl. digitization, tools

MPI for History of Arts

University of Bern

schlimme@biblhertz.it

liess@philo.unibe.ch

Combining Text and Multimedia

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

Database Technology

(relational Databases, SQL, ...)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

University of Bern

MPI for History of Arts

echo-faq@mpi.nl

liess@philo.unibe.ch

kulawik@biblhertz.it

XML Technologies

(XML, Xlink, XUL, ...)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

MPI for History of Arts

University of Bern

echo-faq@mpi.nl

kulawik@biblhertz.it

liess@philo.unibe.ch

Text Technology

(morphological parsers, etc)

University of Bern

liess@philo.unibe.ch

Creation of Interactive Web-Sites

MPI for Psycholinguistics

University of Bern

echo-faq@mpi.nl

liess@philo.unibe.ch

Archiving of Material

MPI for Psycholinguistics

MPI for History of Arts

echo-faq@mpi.nl

glorius@biblhertz.it

Lexica

(Formats, Access, ...)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

University of Lund

echo-faq@mpi.nl

sven.stromqvist@ling.lu.se

Multimodal Analysis and Annotation

Sign Language A&A

MPI for Psycholinguistics

University of Nijmegen

echo-faq@mpi.nl

crasborn@let.kun.nl

Metadata Standards and Tools

(DublinCore, IMDI, OLAC, ...)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

Web-Service Technology

(SOAP, WSDL, UDDI)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

General Software-Development

(Java, Javascript, Perl, ...)

University of Bern

MPI for Psycholinguistics

liess@philo.unibe.ch

echo-faq@mpi.nl

Formats and Encoding

(Formats that are known within ECHO and that can be processed)

Topic

Institution

Email-Address

Video Encoding and File Formats

(MPEGx, MJPEG, Cinepak; MPG, AVI, QT, ...)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

Audio Encoding and File Formats

(PCM, MP3, ATRAC; WAV, NIST, ...)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

Media Annotation Formats

(CHAT, XML-EAF, XML-ATLAS, ...)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

Photo Encoding and File Formats

(TIFF, JPEG, NPG, GIF, ...)

University of Bern

MPI for History of Arts

liess@philo.unibe.ch

schlimme@biblhertz.it

Text Encoding Standards

(TEI, CES, EAGLES, ...)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

Lexica Encoding Standards

(TEI, EAGLES, ISLE, MILE, SHOEBOX, ...)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

Metadata Standards

(DublinCore, IMDI-XML, OLAC)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

echo-faq@mpi.nl

XUL

University of Bern

liess@philo.unibe.ch

Schemas

(XML Schemas (and DTD) become increasingly important for machine processing of data, therefore those applied with ECHO will be mentioned if they have a general relevance)

Topic

Institution

URL

Email-Address

IMDI Metadata Schema

MPI for Psycholinguistics

www.mpi.nl/tools

echo-faq@mpi.nl

EAF Annotation Format

(XML-based)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

www.mpi.nl/tools

echo-faq@mpi.nl

 Tools

(Here only specialized tools will be mentioned that are used or created by the partners)

Topic

Institution

URL

Email-Address

DIGILIB

(Photo ?? Tool)

U Bern

MPI for History of Science

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

ELAN/EUDICO

(Mulitmedia Annotation and Exploitation Tool)

MPI for Psycholinguistics

www.mpi.nl/tools

echo-faq@mpi.nl

IMDI Metadata Editor and Browser incl. Search

MPI for Psycholinguistics

www.mpi.nl/tools

echo-faq@mpi.nl

eDOC Server

(relational database to house electronic documents)

U Bern

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

Text Conversion Tools

MPI for Psycholinguistics

www.mpi.nl/tools

echo-faq@mpi.nl

ARCHIMEDES

(Tool for measuring distances on the screen)

MPI for History of Arts

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

raspe@uni-trier.de

schlimme@biblhertz.it

IMAGO

(image processing tool)

University of Bern

MPI for History of Science

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

COMPOSITO

(Tool to superimpose images)

University of Bern

MPI for History of Science

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

PINGO

(Tool to superimpose vector graphics)

University of Bern

MPI for History of Science

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

RELATO

(Tool to compare media objects based on their annotations)

University of Bern

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

CONTEXTO

(Tool to visualize complex texts)

University of Bern

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

DICTIO

(Tool to operate on texts)

University of Bern

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

ImageCat

(Tool to allow browsing through image collections)

University of Bern

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

NAVIGIO

(Tool that allows to navigate through hierarchical orders)

University of Bern

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

INTEGRA

(Tool to submit resource into ECHO repositories)

University of Bern

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

MATHEMATICO

University of Bern

www.philoscience.unibe.ch

liess@philo.unibe.ch

 

Last update: January 9, 2003 by A. Verbunt