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Waypoints A Digital Archive of U.S. Coast Guard History
IS257 Project PresentationChristine Jones, Jennifer Hastings, Ken Langford
U.S. Coast Guard Historical Archive
Maintained by U.S. Coast Guard historians office in Washington, D.C.
Donated materials from donors/donor groups; materials collected by USCG historians
Size of collection ~200K artifacts (depends on who you ask)
Diverse collection of artifacts Physical artifacts
(e.g., lighthouse lenses, artistic works)
Historical files (e.g., case documents of the Titanic sinking)
Photographic images
Current storage solution
Current access method (paper)
Current access method (digital)
Our solution: Waypoints Administrative interface
Capture information on artifacts in a structured, consistent way
Add U.S. Coast Guard-specific metadata to enrich collection
Public interface Access entire collection online Promote exploration of underutilized
historic materials
Conceptual Design: Usage Info Administrative interface
Users: historians, record keepers Needs: uncomplicated, fast input Tasks: record input, metadata creation
Public interface Users: USCG retirees, historians,
public Needs: support content retrieval Tasks: subject browse, keyword search
Conceptual Design: Data
Entities Artifact
Photograph, historic document, physical artifact, video, oral history, artwork
Creator Donor Collection Historian Historian Review
Conceptual Design: Metadata Entities (continued)
Year Person Thing Event Mission Unit Organization Location
ArtifactID
Artifact
User
UserID
Donor
Creator
Collection
HistorianReview
Historian
OralHistory
PhysicalArtifact
Video
HistoricDocument
Artwork
CreatorID
DonorID
CollectionID
HistorianReveiwID
HistorianID
ArtworkID
HistoricDocumentID
PhysicalArtifactID
OralHistoryID
VideoID
CreatorID
DonorID
CollectionID
Photograph
PhotographID
ArtifactID
HistorianReviewID
ArtifactID
ArtifactID
ArtifactID
ArtifactID
ArtifactID
Logical Design: Waypoints ER Diagram
ArtifactID
ArtifactID
ArtifactID
ArtifactID
HistorianID
DonorID
ArtifactID
Artifact
CreatorID
DonorID
CollectionID
HistorianReviewID
Year
OrganizationAssociation
MissionAssociation
UnitAssociation
ThingAssociation
LocationAssociation
PersonAssociation
EventAssociation
associationIDartifactID
personFacetID
thingFacetID
eventFacetID
missionFacetID
unitFacetID
organizationFacetID
locationFacetID
associationIDartifactID
associationIDartifactID
associationIDartifactID
associationIDartifactID
associationIDartifactID
associationIDartifactID
Person
Thing
Event
Mission
Unit
Organization
Location
Logical Design: Waypoints ER Diagram(continued)
Logical Design
Design Challenges Artifact sub-classing
Deciding which types of artifacts to represent
Handling photos Metadata structure and associations
Conveying many to many relationship Creating the flexibility to show the full
hierarchy of each piece of metadata
Physical Design PHP and MySQL
Implemented logical design in MySQL 4.1 and MySQL 3.23
Access Waypoints DB using PHP via Web interface
Web interface Photo input Photo detail Browse via metadata
Next Steps
Enrich the Administrative Interface Allow administrators to add artifacts Add capability to add metadata and
assign it to artifacts Continue adding data to the library Evolve the Public UI based on user
feedback
Feedback
Questions/suggestions?