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CultURIze is an automated workflow to create and activate persistent URI’s for entities, managed by cultural heritage institutions. The workflow consists of three systems communicating with each other:
- collectionmanagementsystem (CBS), where users record metadata about cultural heritage objects
- integration plug-in, which enables communication between the CBS and the cultURIze webservice
- you're own webserver with installed cultURIze webservice, which activates persistent URI’s and resolves them to a corresponding webresource
Registrars, curators and managers of small or medium cultural heritage collections. These heritage institutions need to have a more advanced digital infrastructure to set up this workflow (collectionmanagementsystem, integration plug-in, webserver) Others can set up the manual cultURIze workflow for persistent URI's.
The workflow consists of two steps:
This step should be executed by:
- the collectionmanagementsystem or;
- the integration plug-in, using an external identifier generator such as NOID, that is activated by the collectionmanagementsystem
The requirements for collection management system and integration plugin
This step should be executed by the cultURIze webservice. In this step the information about the persistent URI and a webresource to which it should resolve has been sent to the cultURIze webservice. The webservice activates the resolving function and reports the status of the resolving back to the integration components.
Persistency of identifiers is depended on the persistency of it's management. A cultural heritage organisation is therefore advised to begin with thinking about it's Persistent identification strategy where the infrastructure, the management and the syntax of persistent URI's should be captured. These publications can help you with that:
- Define a Persistent URI Scheme
- Project Persistente Identificatie
- Vlaamse URI-standaard voor data
- Study on persistent URIs, with identification of best practices and recommendations on the topic for the MSs and the EC
- Best practice gids voor persistente URI’s in cultureel erfgoedsector
- Examples PID-strategies of cultural-heritage institutions: MoMu (museum) [add link], ADVN (archive)[add link]
The following step would be to check if your infrastructure meets the requirements for the automated workflow of cultURIze-web.
For the installation of the cultURIze-web go to culturize-web-installation