2011/10/17 by Robert Sanderson, Hennie Brugman, Sanderson, Robert +5
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Library Science and Information Systems #Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing #cs.DL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1110.3687
8 pages, accepted to SDH2011. Images down-sampled due to arXiv restrictions
arxiv created 2011/10/17 · openalex publication_date 2011/10/17 · arxiv updated 2011/10/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, we present the SharedCanvas model for describing the layout of culturally important, hand-written objects such as medieval manuscripts, which is intended to be used as a common input format to presentation interfaces. The model is evaluated using two collections from CATCHPlus not consulted during the design phase, each with their own complex requirements, in order to determine if further development is required or if the model is ready for general usage. The model is applied to the new collections, revealing several new areas of concern for user interface production and discovery of the constituent resources. However, the fundamental information modelling aspects of SharedCanvas and the underlying Open Annotation Collaboration ontology are demonstrated to be sufficient to cover the challenging new requirements. The distributed, Linked Open Data approach is validated as an important methodology to seamlessly allow simultaneous interaction with multiple repositories, and at the same time to facilitate both scholarly commentary and crowd-sourcing of the production of transcriptions.