Data management - Information systems - Metadata standardisation

Project Name
Contemporary Culture Virtual Archives in XML
Project Acronym
COVAX
Country
Italy
Department/Generate Directorate/Bureau/Service name
Advanced Physical Technologies and New Materials Dept.
Project URL
http://www.covax.org/
ACQUISITION AND HARVESTING - 2D Data Acquisition
In COVAX materials concerning libraries, archives and museums have been digitised.
DOCUMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT - Data management
COVAX provides access through the Internet to homogeneously-encoded document descriptions of archive, library and museum collections based in the application of SGML/XML.
DOCUMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT - Information Systems
The COVAX system acts as a meta-library offering access to a huge repository of contemporary culture. The user sees as a single library with book references, finding aids, facsimile images, museum items, etc.
DOCUMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT - Metadata Standardisation
The basic operational core is the application of XML and the various DTD currently being used in library materials descriptions (MARC DTD), archives finding aids (EAD) and museums finding aids (MUS-EAD), as well as the DTD defined by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for the mark-up of electronic versions of cultural texts.
Department/Generate Directorate/Bureau/Service address
Lungotevere Thaon di Revel 76, 00196 Roma
Directorate/Bureau/Service tel.
-636272892
Directorate/Bureau/Service fax
-636272164
Directorate/Bureau/Service e-mail
luciana.bordoni@enea.it
Directorate/Bureau/Service Website
http://www.enea.it
Department/Generate Directorate/Bureau/Service Description
The Department works on a wide spectrum of technical/scientific subjects usually called "enabling technologies" (such as new functional materials, new materials for engineering, non ionizing radiation technologies, ionizing radiation technologies, autonomous robotics, information and communication technologies, advanced technology services), to achieve the ENEA strategic objectives ? in the field of energy, the environment and competitiveness of manufacturing industry.
Contact Person
Luciana Bordoni
Contact Person Gender
female
Contact Person Institution
ENEA-FIM
Contact Person Address
Lungotevere Thaon di Revel 76, Roma, Italy
Contact Person Tel
-636272892
Contact Person Fax
-636272164
Contact Person e-mail
luciana.bordoni@enea.it
Contact languages
Italian, English
Project Duration
2 years
Objectives and priorities
The purpose of COVAX is to analyse and draw up the technical solutions required to provide access through the Internet to homogeneously-encoded document descriptions of archive, library and museum collections based in the application of SGML/XML.
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