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AssetCollector: a system for managing collections of cultural assets

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In this paper, AssetCollector is presented, which is a system for managing collections of cultural assets. AssetCollector covers the needs of collection curators towards defining, populating and searching a collection in a flexible way, while supporting them in generating reports based on the collection’s assets and reusing them in order to build web sites and CD-ROMs. In order to support the above functionality, the system provides the content structuring subsystem, the content input subsystem, the search subsystem and the report subsystem. The use of the subsystems is straightforward and requires no technical skills from the curators. AssetCollector has been successfully applied for organizing various collections of cultural assets in Greece, such as archaeological sites, museums and published books. In the future, an evaluation procedure is planned in order to further refine the use of the system according to the targeted users’ needs. Furthermore, more import and export facilities will be provided, which will make the system compliant with widely accepted standards.

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  1. Art Sciences Department, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Georgios D. Styliaras

  2. High Performance Information Systems Lab, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Georgios K. Tsolis & Chris M. Papaterpos

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Styliaras, G.D., Tsolis, G.K. & Papaterpos, C.M. AssetCollector: a system for managing collections of cultural assets. Int J Digit Libr 8, 61–78 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-007-0028-3

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