Presentation of the use of MOM-CA (Monasterium.Net- Collaborative Archive)
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MOM-CADigital charters in the
Monasterium - Collaborative Archive
What is MOM-CA?
• Virtual Archive of the Monasterium-Project• Research tool• Collaborative editing platform• Free to use• Over 80 archives in 10 European countries• More than 200000 charters
Archives in MOM-CA
Possibilities
• Hierarchical browsing of the archives and fonds
• Searching the full text of the database• Viewing a charter’s images and metadata• Bookmarking interesting objects• Sharing interesting objects using permanent
links• Editing all charters online
Technology
• Modern web technologies• Open source software• Native XML Database eXist• CEI based XML Schema for charter metadata• Research environment based on XRX
technologies• Online-Editor executed as a Java Applet
Fond view
Fond selection
Fond view
Charters view
Detail view
MyArchive area
Detail view
Editor - abstract
Editor – full text
Editor - Intitulatio
Full text: XML
<cei:tenor><cei:invocatio lang="Latin"><cei:persName certainty="100%" lang="Latin" reg="Frederick">Fredericus</cei:persName>, divina favente clementia Romanorum imperator electus et semper augustus, rex <cei:geogName certainty="100%" existent="Yes" lang="Latin" reg="Sicily" type="Island">Sicilie</cei:geogName>, ducatus <cei:geogName certainty="100%" existent="Yes" lang="Lation" reg="Apulia" type="Region">Apulie</cei:geogName> et principatus […] amen.</cei:tenor>
User model
• User– Edit and temporarily store metadata – Send changes to the moderator
• Moderator– Review new text– Highlight changed parts of the metadata– Get in contact with the editor– Publish or discard the changes
Moderator view
Future developments
• Improved editor interface with AJAX• New research possibilities due to a fully
searchable database incl. all metadata fields• Storing interesting documents in user defined
public collections
Thank you!