Presentation held at 11th ICA Conference in Riga (April 2016). Content: About ETHorama; Philosophical Approach; Workflow; Searching on the Map; The Future?

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ETHorama: Map-based access to digital information
resources
11. ICA Conference Riga, April 20-22, 2016
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o About ETHorama
o Philosophical approach
o Workflow
o Searching on the map
o The future?

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o Innovative map-bassed
access to selected digital
information resources
generated by ETH-
Bibliothek
o One step forward for
library work is the
location-based indexing of
old prints, maps and
journal articles up to
individual page level
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About ETHorama

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Phase1
o The platform offers geographical access to geotagged
documents (text, fotos, maps etc.)
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About ETHorama

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o Merging different electronic resources with a geographical
relation
o A new way to present digital content
o Access to documents directly into their initial system;
there is no need for a duplicated data management
o The selection of the content is the result of an intellectual
process; it is not only a link and document collection
o ETHorama is a platform for everyone, not only for researchers
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Philosophical approach

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Benefits:
o Explorative: Through zooming we can
discover the holdings on the map in a
visual way
o Easy: Simple and easy structure
o Extendible: It is also possible to
extend the presentation on the map
to other regions and/or countries
o A broad topic in a large chronological
view
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ETHorama versus other similar platforms?

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eZ Publish
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Workflow
E-rara.ch
E-Pics
Retro-seals
E-collection
E-
manuscripta
Source Systems Backend:
eZ Publish
Knowledge
Portal
Frontend:
ETHorama via
Google Maps

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o The searching, the selection
and import are taking place in
the Knowledge Portal via an
Import-Backend
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Workflow: Searching, selection and import

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Work steps:
o Importet content is distributed by
document type
o Edit metadata
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Workflow: Edit (I)

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Work steps:
o POI / AOI generating, geo-
referencing and translating
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Workflow: Edit (II)

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Work steps: Getting online
o Documents are manually
linked with POIs/AOIs
o One POI/AOI can be linked
with several documents

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o Right from the start all
content is displayed on the
map
o The navigation on the map
is possible via different
stages: from country view
to local view
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Search on the map: navigation (I)

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o With one click on an AOI/POI
we can see all the related
documents sorted by typ
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Search on the map: navigation (II)

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o By choosing a document,
you will get only a preview
o There is the possibility to
access the document in its
initial system or to make a
search in the Knowledge
Portal
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Search on the map: Back to the sources (I)

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o In the Knowledge Portal we
can display all other
content from ETHorama
through the «Geographical
reference» button
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Search on the map: Back to the sources (II)

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o We can search for locations,
AOIs/POIs or keywords
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Search on the map: Filtering the content

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Thematic (subject) collections
o In the beginning, all
subjects are listed
o Selecting a single subject,
the corresponding POIs are
presented on the map
o Clicking a POI, all
corresponding documents
are shown
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Search on the map: further offers (I)

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Historical travels (I)
o 150 travelogs (from 16. to
19. century)
o 16 are online
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Search on the map: further offers (II)

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Historical travels (II)
o Each travelog is organized in
a similar way like «Thematic
collections»
o They are scheduled in a
chronological list
o After choosing a specific
travelog, the map shows only
the related AOIs/POIs
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Search on the map: further offers (II)

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o A possible further functionality: Crowdsourcing
o Integration of additional sources (2016)
o …
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ETHorama: In the future?

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Thank you for your attention!
meda.hotea@library.ethz.ch
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