The PROBADO project: approach and lessons learned in building a digital library system for heterogeneous non-textual documents

  • Authors:

  • René Berndt;Ina Blümel;Michael Clausen;David Damm;Jürgen Diet;Dieter Fellner;Christian Fremerey;Reinhard Klein;Frank Krahl;Maximilian Scherer;Tobias Schreck;Irina Sens;Verena Thomas;Raoul Wessel

  • Affiliations:

  • Graz University of Technology, Austria;German National Library of Science and Technology Hannover, Germany;University of Bonn, Germany;University of Bonn, Germany;Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany;Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany;University of Bonn, Germany;University of Bonn, Germany;Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany;Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany;Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany;German National Library of Science and Technology Hannover, Germany;University of Bonn, Germany;University of Bonn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The PROBADO project is a research effort to develop and operate advanced Digital Library support for non-textual documents. The main goal is to contribute to all parts of the Digital Library work flow from content acquisition over indexing to search and presentation. While not limited in terms of supported document types, reference support is developed for classical digital music and 3D architectural models. In this paper, we review the overall goals, approaches taken, and lessons learned so far in a highly integrated effort of university researchers and library experts. We address the problem of technology transfer, aspects of repository compilation, and the problem of inter-domain retrieval. The experiences are relevant for other project efforts in the nontextual Digital Library domain.