"Reflections on the arquigrafia project intersections" ARLIS/NA + VRA Conference Seattle, WA 2016

1. Reflections on the ARQUIGRAFIA project intersections
Vânia Mara Alves Lima
School of Communications and Arts of University of São Paulo
Artur Rozestraten
School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Arquigrafia
project coordinator
Gabriela Previdello
Ph.D. student at the Graduate Program in Information Science at School of
Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo
Connecting Collections on the Open Web

2. www.arquigrafia.org.br

3. The Arquigrafia
Open, public and non-profit
collaborative environment on
the web, dedicated to the
dissemination of architectural
images, with a special focus
on brazilian architecture and
urban spaces.

4. Context
The multidisciplinary challenges of the Arquigrafia project
led to the creation of the Web Collaborative Environments
Research Center (NaWEB) (http://nap.usp.br/naweb)
School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU)
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME)
School of Communications and Arts (ECA)
Law School (FD)

5. Approaches intersections
Architecture
- Debate on architecture, cultural heritage and documentation
- Collective knowledge ==> Individual knowledge
Library Science /Information Science
- representation of images, controlled vocabularies and users
participation
- knowledge organization in the brazilian architecture domain (digital
repository, the website databases)
- indexing languages x tags
Computer science
- Interoperability; Linked data; Ontologies; Semantic web and Information
retrieval

6. Objectives
- Preserve and disseminate the image collection of Brazilian
architecture of FAUUSP library collection.
- The convergence of private and public collections.
- Promote a continuous expansion of the collection, counting
on the web contribution.
- Improve public based full access to stimulate the
construction of an architectural visual culture.

7. The Audiovisual Library Collection
'The Imaginary Museum'
(André Malraux, 1947)

8. 84,645 Slides

9. 16,766 Photographs
49,500 Acetate negatives

10. 400,000 Architectural drawings
4,150 Glass Negatives

11. First Steps Diagnosis of photographic documents
Mechanical Cleaning
Selection of relevant documents
34,000 slides
8,000 photographs

12. Cataloguing
⇒ Analysis of the Cataloguing Standards
AACR2; ISBD-NBM;CCO; CDWA)
Set of Metadata:
Description: Title, Classification number, Name, Country, State, City,
District, Street, Image author, Picture date, Building author, Building
date, Notes, Registration number date, Cataloguing date
Technical: Dimensions, Width, Height, Resolution, Bit depth, Color
representation
Administrative: License (Creative Commons), Collection, Donors,
Authorization term for web broadcasting.

13. Terminology work
⇒ Library Subjects + Controlled Vocabulary + List of tags
Terminological standardization work

14. Aspects of Indexing Images
Denotation
Santa Efigenia bridge
Connotation
Bridges (any)
Context
Fair street at Santa Efigenia bridge on Sunday

15. Scanning and digital preservation
⇒ Digital repositories, backups and storage computing environments for
reading digital information
Equipment:
- Plustek Optic film 120
- SilverFast Ai Studio 8 (64-bit) software
Result
- Image => 5 Mb; 4,000; TIFF/JPG/PDF
- Storage => DVDs and external hard drives
No software color corrections to preserve original appearance of the
photographs and historical aspects.

17. Tools
Free Software
Groupware Workbench
The Apache ODF Toolkit.
Hibernate. Relational Persistence for Java
Mysql Database
Android for mobiles
Creative Commons

20. Results
- 30,044 slides scanned
- 2,481 photographs on paper scanned
Public Profile
- Architecture students (38.6%)
- Architects (23.4%)
- Graduate students in other areas (10.3%)
- Architecture professors (4.3%)
- Photographers (4.1%)
- Others ( 19,3%)

21. Next Steps (2016-2017)
- Conduct studies relating to binomials
- Adequacy of metadata set.
- Conduct usability studies.
- Expand the iconographic base of Arquigrafia
- Improve the indexing and implement search tools

22. INTEROPERABILITY WITH THE FUTURE
AND
COMMUNICATION THROUGH THE TIME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4gZyaVY8-Q

23. The Arquigrafia team
Thanks!

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