The presentation introduces the collection registration system and the media suite, developed by experts from B&G and the University of Amsterdam, focusing on enhancing access to various collections through a modular approach. It explains the transition from multiple tools to a system where collections and functionalities are separated, allowing for improved compatibility and use of different tools with all collections. The discussion also covers the role of CKAN in managing collections and the future plans for sharing custom datasets.

1. Welcome.
This presentation will be done by Willem Melder (ICT expert at B&G, developer of the
collection registration system and the media suite), Eva Baaren (media and digital
humanities specialist at B&G, responsible for community outreach in WP5), and
Liliana Melgar (researcher at the UvA, responsible for user studies in WP5).

2. We will present our collection registration system in three parts: (read). The most
important part is the discussion, in which we hope to count with your questions,
insights, suggestions...
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3. We start with the introduction to the media suite
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4. In the media studies focus (WP5) we began with five tools: AVResearcherXL, Trove,
Comerda, Dive, and Verteld Verleden. These tools were developed in different
projects, and offered access to different collections (oral history interviews,
newspapers, television and radio, museum collections, among others).
In the initial meetings of WP5, the challenge that scholars posed to the ICT experts
was the need to use those different collections with the different tools, since the
tools presented the possibility of achieving different goals. Some of them, though,
had common functionalities, for instance word clouds.
The solution proposed by the ICT experts was to separate the collections from the
tools, and map the functionalities in the tools, reconstructing them in a modular
approach.
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5. The current Media Suite consists thus of collections on the one hand, and
functionalities on the other hand.

6. Each collection is “pluged” to the available functionalities. For instance, the Sound
and Vision catalog can be accessed via a faceted search functionality, or via the linked
data browser.

7. Other components include: (read headers)
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8. In the same way, the collections’ metadata can be visualized, for instance, in a
timeline

9. These components can be “recombined” into the previous tools, but now made
compatible, and ready to be used with all collections.
For example, on the left, you see the “recipe” for Trove…
LEFT: TROVeXL
RIGHT: DIVE
FUTURE: CANVAS OPTION (DIY)

10. This is the current placeholder/draft home page for the media suite. It directs the user
to available recipes, tools, available functionalities, APIs and datasets.
Search API and Annotation API are currently the APIs the media suite functionalities
are built upon. The search API is connected to the index that contain all data imported
from CKAN. The annotation API enables one to store & access all (W3C Web
Annotation compliant) annotations
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11. The datasets link to CKAN, which Willem will explain later. The registration system is
currently the only way to provide collection data to the system.
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12. For example: the collection analyzer is a component (functionality). All collections
registered in CKAN can appear in this drop down menu and be selected.
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13. If a collection/dataset is used via the collection analyzer, the functionality enables the
automatic visualization of different aspects in the data, for example, the amount of
missing dates in a collection, or the possible wrong dates (for example, some
programs may have a wrong broadcast date such as 2050)
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14. Finally, the most important aspect of this modular approach is that now all the
different collections can be used by the different tools, which are now called
“recipes” since they are made of different functionalities or modules, and with
different ingredients: the collections.
STARTING POINT: TOOLS
CURRENT APPROACH: MODULAR
(losse functionaliteiten als ingrediënten)
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15. Now Willem will explain CKAN in detail
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16. This is CKAN, the collection registry for CLARIAH WP5 media studies and currently
the only way to provide collection data to the system. This instance of CKAN is
reserved for ‘official institutional’ datasets. In a later phase of the project we will think
about providing proper means to upload/share custom datasets, such as scraped
twitter data or youtube collections.
DATA REGISTRATION VIA CKAN (DEMO)
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17. And now we would like to open the discussion...
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