Inventory Museum - Social-IN3

Charlotte Delannée
Andréas Schweizer
Johann Sievering
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Presentation of the project
Presentation of stakeholders and partners
API Genève
CMYLE
http://www.cmyle.com/api/aepm_lyon_2012.pdf
Content
 API’s presentation
 Inventory and standards
 Information system
 Partners
 Questions / Answers
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API’S PRESENTATION
Genève / Switzerland
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Andréas Schweizer, director
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Born in 1961, Andréas Schweizer is a graduate of the Fine Arts Institute of Geneva (Ecole
supérieure des beaux-arts de Genève [HEAD]).
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His specialisation in engraving, photography and print techniques, have enabled him to
contribute substantially to the preservation of Geneva’s longstanding heritage in the graphicarts, whilst raising awareness of this valuable historical legacy.
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Within the framework of the Association for Industrial Heritage (API), based in Geneva,
Switzerland – one of continental Europe’s earliest establishments of its kind – he is committed
to perpetuating this legacy for future generations, linking Gutenberg’s landmark discoveries
with contemporary and avant-garde information and communication technologies and, in this
process, developing a means for social and cultural integration.
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As director of the “Maison du patrimoine industriel et des arts graphiques », Schweizer is
regularly called upon as an expert in the conservation of industrial heritage by government
authorities and diverse organisations involved in the field.
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In 1995, he undertook a two-month mission to India to study the last operational Monotype
type-casters, in order to help develop a fully-integrated computer-driven type-casting system.
Chairman of the first European Monotype University held in Geneva in 2004, Schweizer is the
founder of www.letterpress.ch, an internet portal devoted to Monotype type-casting.
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He his also officially recognized as an expert by the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (the
SATW’s ICT Commission).
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Alongside his professional activities, Schweizer cultivates perennial plants for dyeing, exploring
traditional and innovative cloth-printing techniques in his garden.
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API’s presentation
 API : Association for the industrial heritage
o Founded in Geneva in 1979
o One of the first industrial heritage association in continental Europe
o A citizenship – driven body working to preserve its heritage
(ecomusée)
o 1895 : building of the factory Lambercier & Cie (oil and grease)
o Since 1985, preservation of a 1’230 m² Lambercier factory dedicated
to the conservation, promotion and perpetuation of printing and graphic
arts
o Since 1998, API is the permanent project of the Canton of Geneva
for the preservation of industrial heritage
o On average, 50 people engaged for social and professional reintegration
o 800’000 hours of labor between 1994 et 2012
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API’s presentation
1975 (Reliure S.A.)
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API’s presentation
1989 (moving our collections):
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API’s presentation
2009 (house of industrial and printing heritage)
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Mission
API’s role is to preserve and promote the
universally – shared domain of printing and
publishing – spanning centuries and
constantly evolving – by putting its
knowledge, infrastructure and creativity at
the service of artistic initiative, technical
research and education
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API : our inventory
 Vocation
o To preserve, restore and provide records of a
longstanding and ongoing industrial and technical culture
o To saveguard over 500’000 items
 Commitments to API’s inventory
o To define / describe the items of the inventory
o Describe their relationships and attributes
o Aggregate, disseminate and share data
o Coexistance of heterogeneous systems
o Sustain a robust inventory independently of technological
developments
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API : inventory made by citizens
 A team of practitioners dedicated to a common
heritage who organize themselves collectively and
undertake tasks, each according to their means and
competencies
 Common goals
o To archive /inventorise
o To document
o To share
o To preserve
o To standardize
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API : example
 Outfit of tools for the Monotype caster
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API : inventory Excel
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API : inventory Filemaker (170 fields)
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INVENTORIES AND STANDARDS
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Charlotte Delannée
o In charge of inventory
o Association for the industrial heritage (API)
o Maison du patrimoine industriel et des arts graphiques
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Charlotte Delannée graduated with the Highlighting Heritage Master’s programme at the
University of Artois in Arras (France). An industrial heritage specialist, she did a training course
at the Association for Industrial Heritage in Geneva (Switzerland). She is integrated in a
collaborative project for professional reintegration in which she coordinates the
implementation of the cross inventory of the collections in the House of Industrial and printing
heritage.
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Treasurer of the Anachronique Symposium Committee association, she is organising an
exhibition entitled Usine des mémoires. It examines the history of the former Metaleurop Nord
foundry through the testimonies of those who worked there. This project received the
Cilac/young researcher Award at the 16th international seminar on industrial heritage, held in
September 2011 in Belfort (France).
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She began her research career in 2011 at the Institute for the History of Aluminium in Clichy
(France). Her mission consisted of surveying objects constituted of aluminium in the collections
of French. It is part of a research programme on "the heritagisation of the aluminium", part of
a global project supported by the French National Agency of the Research entitled "CRÉALU:
Creation and Aluminium – from the discovery of an industrial material to its constitution as
heritage object: invention, innovation, markets (from the 19th to the 21st century) ".
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Standards
 Descriptive fields
o Descriptive system of movable objects : French
direction of Architecture and Heritage
o Data-processing bases : bases Palissy, Mérimée,
Joconde
o Ontology : ISO 21127 (reference ontology for the
interchange of cultural information)
o Object-ID : ICOM, UNESCO, Interpol
o Value PBC : Protection of the cultural goods of
the Swiss Confederation
o MARC : libraries
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Printing heritage’s fields
 Problems : fields too restrictive with complex
statements
avec des énoncés complexes
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Taxonomy of movable objects
technique estampe
procédé en relief = taille d'épargne
bois de fil
bois de bout
criblé
chalcotypie
chrysoglyphie
gaufrage
linogravure
xylographie
procédé de gravure en creux = taille-douce = taille douce
attaque directe aux outils
burin
manière noire
papier de verre
pointe sèche
roulette
trois pointes
utilisation de vernis et d'acide
aquatinte
carborandum
Source : MAGNIEN Aline et al. "Système descriptif
eau-forte = eau forte
des objets mobiliers", Direction de l'Architecture et
manière de crayon
du Patrimoine, France, 1999
manière de pastel
vernis dur
vernis mou
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INFORMATION SYSTEM
Architecture
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Information system vectors
Behaviour
Language
Memory
Data
Goal
Environment
Context
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How to organize ?
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Problems
Environment
Context
Behaviour
Language
Memory
Data
Goal
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How to communicate ?
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General architecture
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Architecture : semantics connector
Environment
Context
Behaviour
Semantics preserving
Language
Memory
Data
Goal
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PROJECT’S PRESENTATION
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All strat with a common objective
Goal
 Sharing data :
o Hardware and softwares independent
o Non-intrusive and based on existing standards
o Queries independent of the target
o Presentation of data independent of their type
o Scalable and security management
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Able to talk
Language
 Structure
o Using standardized description e.g. «Palissy»
o Use of a representation language OWL-DL
 Actions
o Using ACL (Agent Communication Language) based on FIPA
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To know to speak
Behaviour
 Connector between heterogeneous systems
 AbSOA (Agent based SOA)
o Multi-agent platform technology independent
o Including specific ontologies
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Structure and persistence data
Memory
Data
 Harmonized interpretation of terms
 Different storage structures
 Different communication protocol
 Different hardware
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The local know how
Environment
Context
 Dynamique GUI (graphical user interface)
o Data are not known a priori
o Data drive the GUI
o GUI can process, merge and synthesize data
o GUI is local context sensitive
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REALISATION’S STEPS
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The main steps
 Ontologies specification
 Finalize the architecture and the open source tools
 We develop:
 Dynamic interface
 Semantics connectors
 AbSOA (Agent based SOA)
 Ontologies, knowledge bases and standard
 Implement the whole model
 Test in real situation (Beta test)
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And you ?
Do you want to join the project ?
Please fill out the project questionnaire!
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QUESTIONS - ANSWERS
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END OF THE PRESENTATION
Thank you for your attention
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