COLLATE – A collaboratory supporting research on historic European films

  • Authors:
  • Ulrich Thiel;Holger Brocks;Ingo Frommholz;Andrea Dirsch-Weigand;Jürgen Keiper;Adelheit Stein;Erich J. Neuhold

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany;Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • International Journal on Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In the COLLATE project, we aim to design and implement a Web-based collaboratory for archives, scientists, and end users working with digitized cultural material. Our example domain is the historic film documentation comprising digitized material about European films of the early 20th century. Designed as a content- and context-based knowledge working environment for distributed user groups, the COLLATE system supports both individual work and collaboration of domain experts who are analyzing, evaluating, indexing, and annotating material in the data repository. The system provides appropriate task-based interfaces for indexing and annotating. As a multifunctional means of in-depth analysis, annotations can be made individually but also collaboratively, for example in the form of annotation of annotations. Combining results from manual and automatic indexing procedures, elaborate content- and context-based information retrieval mechanisms can be applied.