Portale della cultura italiana

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 4.1 - 9/23/2008 (.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)

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 http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/software/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 MiBAC Data Provider
Most recent release: 1.5.46 (2006-06-30)
Developer: IDTechnology (http://www.idtech.it)
Designer/s: Various
License: GPL, MiBAC (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)
Applicable fields: J2EE Compatible operating systems: Windows, Linux (any operating system that supports J2EE)
Documentation: http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/software/OAI-Pico.zip
Download: http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/software/OAI-Pico.zip
Note: The OAI MiBAC 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 http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/software/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