Technical documentation
Project documents
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Summary of the scientific-technical project for the Cultura Italia website - version 2.1 - 6/27/2005 (.pdf 109 Kb)
Technical documents
- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, PICO Application Profile - version 1.0 - 7/19/2007 (.xml 212 KB)
- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, PICO Thesaurus - version 4.3 - 01/03/2011 (.skos.xml 524 KB)
- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Guidelines for developing interoperable information systems with CulturaItalia - version 1.0 - 11/25/2005 (.pdf 490 Kb)
Mapping Documents
- Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Mapping of metadata fields between ICCD files and the PICO Application Profile for the italian culture portal. The document contains instructions for accessing the data via the web portal search engine - version 1.02 - 6/28/2007
- Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, The visibility of cataloguing data for cultural heritage on CulturaItalia. The study aims to analyze and to identify the minimum set of accessible data to average users for the cultural resources included in the catalographic databases available on CulturaItalia website (in accordance with Italian laws on privacy and the handling of sensitive information.) The specific goal is to identify those data elements which should be, in any case, always visible on the basis of what is contained in the mapping documents between ICCD files and PICO Application Profile - version 1.0 - 05/2007 (.pdf 1.5 MB)
- M.E. Masci (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Mapping between PICO Application Profile and EDM-Europeana Data Model – version 2.0 - 2012-06-07: Document defining the mapping rules to transform the digital cultural resources structured according to the PICO Application Profile, adopted by the web portal culturaitalia.it, into records structured according to EDM – Europeana Data Model, adopted by the web portal europeana.eu
- M.E. Masci (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Mapping between PICO Application Profile and CIDOC Conceptual reference Model – version 1.0- 2013-01-24: Document defining the mapping rules to transform the digital cultural resources structured according to the PICO Application Profile, adopted by the web portal culturaitalia.it, into records structured according to the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
XSD scheme
XSD (XML Schema Definition) are available and define the elements, attributes, and data types provided in the PICO application profile and ICCD and MAG application subprofiles.
targetNamespace are declared in the first line of the xsd scheme
PICO application profile
MAG application subprofiles
MDI application subprofiles
ICCD 2.0 application subprofiles
ICCD 2.00 application subprofiles
Scheda BDM: beni demoetnoantropologici materiali
Scheda OA-D-N: opera e oggetto d'arte, disegno e bene numismatico
Scheda RA: reperto archeologico (RA)
Scheda S-MI: stampa e matrice d'incisione
ICCD 3.0 application subprofiles
ICCD 3.0 application subprofiles
Scheda AT: reperti antropologici
Scheda BDI: beni demoetnoantropologici immateriali
Scheda BNB: beni naturalistici, botanica
Scheda BNM: beni naturalistici, mineralogia
Scheda BNP: beni naturalistici, paleontologia
Scheda BNPE: beni naturalistici, petrologia
Scheda BNPL: beni naturalistici, planetologia
Scheda BNZ: beni naturalistici, zoologia
Scheda MACA: monumento archeologico/complesso archeologico
Scheda OAC: opera d'arte contemporanea
Scheda PST: patrimonio scientifico e tecnologico
Scheda RA: reperto archeologico
Scheda SMO: strumenti musicali, organo
Scheda VeAC: vestimenti antichi e contemporanei
Software packages "Data Provider" for the interoperability, using OAI-PMH, between content providers and CulturaItalia
Some softwares that implement the OAI-PMH 2.0 interface are available to download. These have been used and tested for the CulturaItalia project:
Name: PHP OAI Data Provider
Most recent release: 1.8.0 (2005-06-20)
Developer: University of Oldenburg (http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/)
Designer/s: Heinrich Stamerjohanns
License: GNU GPL Version 2.0 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
Applicable fields: PHP 4, MySQL
Compatible operating systems: Windows, Linux (any operating system with PHP 4 and an HTTP server)
Documentation: http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/oai/
Download: http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/oai/soft/phpoai2-1.8.0.tgz
Note: A version of the PHP OAI Data Provider, customized by Davide Merlitti (d.merlitti@sns.it) at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, is available to download at oaipmh2pico.zip. The version supports the "pico" metadata format.
Name: OAICat
Most recent release: 1.5.46 (2006-06-30)
Developer: OCLC (http://www.oclc.org)
Designer/s: Jeff Young, Vari
License: Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.htm)
Applicable fields: J2EE Compatible operating systems: Windows, Linux (any operating system that supports J2EE)
Documentation: http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/cat.htm,http://pubserv.oclc.org/oaicat/jars/docs/index.html
Download: http://purl.org/NET/OPENSRC/downloads/oaicat/jars/dist/dist.html
Name: OAI MiBACT Data Provider
Most recent release: 1.5.46 (2006-06-30)
Developer: IDTechnology (http://www.idtech.it)
Designer/s: Various
License: GPL, MiBACT (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)
Applicable fields: J2EE Compatible operating systems: Windows, Linux (any operating system that supports J2EE)
Documentation: OAI-Pico.zip
Download: OAI-Pico.zip
Note: The OAI MiBACT Data Provider is a software that allows a database to be compliant with the OAI-PMH protocol and the PICO Application Profile. The application management and setting is based on XML and XSL files, by which it's possible to modify the export of OAI sets and mapping of Dublin Core and PICO schemas.
Name: ASP OAI 2.0
Data Provider (UIUC OAI Metadata Harvesting Project) Most recent version: 1.5 (2004-05-10)
Developer: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Designer/s: Thomas G. Habing, Timothy W. Cole, Ying-ping Chen, Joanne Kaczmarek
License: University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License Applicable fields: Microsoft ASP, ASP.NET
Compatible operating systems: Windows NT4 SP6 and higher
Documentation: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=47963
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=47963
Note: A version of the ASP OAI 2.0 Data Provider, customized by Davide Merlitti (d.merlitti@sns.it) at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa is available to download at aspoai_pico.zip. This version supports the "pico" metadata format.
Other compliant softwares with the OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol are described at the following link: http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/tools/tools.php
Applicative software PICOvalidator for harvesting and validating an OAI-PMH repository, which displays metadata in "pico" metadata format:
Name: Picovalidator
Most recent release: 1.0beta4 (2009-01-28)
Developer: Davide Merlitti (d.merlitti@sns.it)
Designer/s: Davide Merlitti
License: GPL (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)
Documentation: http://picovalidator.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx
Download: http://codeplex.com/picovalidator
Linked Open Data
Europeana Data Exchange Agreement (DEA)
Creative Commons License "CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication".
Creative Commons License "Attribution - Non Commercial 2.5".