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Some CATCHPlus tools require a ‘space’, linked to a user or a user group, in which the user can gather relevant data and in which the tool can work: a workspace. These workspaces offer several advantages:

  • Uploading (‘ingesting’) resources is a part of many heritage use cases. By linking this function to the workspaces a common reusable module can be developed, makeing the work for each seperate institution redundant.
  • Adding basic matadata and defining clusters of resources is a part of the workspace services.
  • A wokspaces is a platform for plugging in and invoking several (CATCHPlus) services, like the manuscript transcription and search of SCRATCH4All.
  • Most tools and services need some form of authentication. Links in wokspaces enables you to manage this authentication joinlty in a central way. At a later stage, it will be possible to join existing sollutions (based on OpenID and/or SAML 2.0).

Do you want to use Workspaces to upload your scanned files to the Monk system (SCRACTH4All)? Please contect Target holding.

Do you want to establish your own Workspaces repository? Download the sources from GitHub.

More information on installation can ben found here.

Online access to the Workspaces repository at Target Holding can be found here.

Read the Test plan – User Guide (pdf).

CATCH

CATCHPlus builds on the running programme "Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage" (CATCH), ran by N.W.O. (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research). In CATCH, computer scientists, the humanities and the cultural heritage sector have set up a unique collaboration with collection managing institutions. Innovation, transferability and cooperation are central issues in this project.

CATCH started in 2004 and a number of subprojects has finished. In CATCHPlus, the prototypes and demos fro eight of the finished projects will be converted to reliable tools. Software that is solid and can be used in multiple institutions. From prototype to reliable application!

For more information on CATCH, go to the NWO homepage: www.nwo.nl/catch