IST Project Fact Sheet
REGNET
Cultural Heritage in Regional Networks
Project URL: http://www.regnet.org/
| Coordinator |
Contact Person:
Name: KOCH, Walter
Tel: +43.316.835359-0
Fax:
+43.316.835359-75
Email: kochw@ait.co.at |
Organisation:
AIT Angewandte Informationstechnik
Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
Klosterwiesgasse
32/1
8010
Graz
Austria |
REGNET aims to set up a functional network of service
centres in Europe which provides IT-services dedicated
to Cultural Heritage organisations and will be an enabler
of eBusiness activities for CH organizations. Multi media
industries enabling the production of electronic publications
will be integrated. It will provide access and use of
digital data (scientific and cultural) as well as of physical
goods as provided by museum shops. The four players within
the network are the content providers, the service centre
operators, the system developers and end users. The content
providers (museums, libraries, archives etc.) will provide
access (via wired and wireless communication) to their
digital contents, services and products and offer them
to their clients (B2C). In return they can use the REGNET
facilities for multimedia productions and data base management,
or cooperate with other REGNET partners during the creation
of data bases, generation of multimedia products or creation
of a virtual exhibition (B2B). The service centre operators
will generate income by providing the technical infrastructure
(software/hardware) to content providers and other partners
within the REGNET network. They offer additional IT-services
and consultancies. And the system developers are selling
the REGNET system to other cultural service centres and
content providers. They implement additional components
for the REGNET software system (additional 'nodes' like
an 'exhibition creator', etc), and will generate income
via licence fees for the REGNET system. For the end user
the system will offer easy and wide access to cultural
heritage data information and the purchase of CH related
goods and services at one point, with stress on the production
of personalized goods (e.g. CDROM) and services.
Main objectives of REGNET are:
- Development of a service infrastructure which enables
business to business (B2B) transactions as well as business
to consumer (B2C) transactions
- Development and use of existing - locally held - electronic
catalogues (OPACS: Online Public Access Catalogues) referring
to cultural & scientific objects contained in libraries,
museums, archives, and galleries, as well as to goods
and services.
- Integration of a distributed search and retrieval system
to achieve a 'virtual union' catalogue of all OPACS and
product/service catalogues held locally
- Definition of Information Products and Services including
necessary 'supply chains' and the connected business processes
and functions to deliver digital and physical goods (to
provide high quality services an editorial committee will
be installed)
- Setup of a legal framework necessary for all business
transaction on the B2B and B2C level (containing payment
features, copyright systems, authentication control, etc)
- Integration and test of existing components, standards,
and methods in the field of distributed search and retrieval
and e-commerce
- Access to the REGNET-WEB services with mobile devices
via de facto standard protocols (such as wireless application
protocol, WAP etc).
- Run a trial service (demonstration phase) which should
be followed by a regular service.
The technical (research and development) objectives
of REGNET are:
- Development of the 'REGNET building blocks
(nodes)' which are necessary to build up an appropriate
infrastructure to access to catalogues (containing cultural
& scientific data, product & service descriptions,
etc) in the Cultural Heritage domain.
Access to the 'REGNET System' via wired communication
lines as well as via wireless mode (e.g. using the wireless
application protocol WAP).
The building blocks (nodes) of the REGNET system consist
of:
- REGNET - Portal (access to remote data entry, distributed
search, e-business)
- REGNET - Cultural Heritage Data Management (search
over distributed meta data repositories connected to stores
containing digital content)
- REGNET - eBusiness Data Management (e-commerce
system allowing access to distributed product/service
catalogues)
- REGNET - Ontology (Metadata) Subsystem (containing
the specifications of all metadata needed in the Cultural
Heritage domain as well as in the e-business domain; this
subsystem also stores specifications of workflows and
process related metadata)
- REGNET - Electronic Publishing Subsystem (allowing
the production of personalised digital products based
on standardised meta data and workflows)
The demonstration objectives of REGNET are:
- Test the technical (hardware/software) infrastructure
of the REGNET system
- Validate the developed services offered to
end users and content providers
- Test the operation of at least three Cultural
Service Centres
Milestones:
M1: State of the Art, Results: documentation plans (preparation
of content); infrastructure to run the trial service;
legal framework
M2: System implementation, Results: Content and products
ready; System is tested; contracts and agreements are
signed; start of market activities; Training of REGNET
administrators
M3: End of system validation, Results: infrastructure
at service centres ready
M4: Trial Service ends, Results: Regular service network
M5: REGNET established
In October 2001 REGNET got "GREEN LIGHT"
for further development at the first Project Review by
the European Commission.
| Project details: |
Project Reference: IST-2000-26336
Start Date: 2001-04-01
Duration: 24 months |
Contract Type: Cost-sharing contracts
End Date: 2003-03-31
Project Status: Execution |
| Participants: |
| Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft
mbH |
AUSTRIA |
| Österreichische Nationalbibliothek |
AUSTRIA |
| Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H. |
AUSTRIA |
| IMAC Information & Management Consulting e.K. |
GERMANY |
| Stockholms universitet |
SWEDEN |
| Länsmuseet pa Gotland |
SWEDEN |
| Naturhistoriska riksmuseet |
SWEDEN |
| Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien |
SWEDEN |
| TARX nv |
BELGIUM |
| Stad Mechelen |
BELGIUM |
| Stichting Museon (Museum vorr het Onderwijs) |
NETHERLANDS |
| Motorola S.p.A. |
ITALY |
| SPACE S.r.l. |
ITALY |
| Fratelli Alinari I.D.E.A. S.P.A. |
ITALY |
| Consorzio Civita |
ITALY |
| Instituto Andaluz de Tecnologia |
SPAIN |
| Ajuntament de Granollers |
SPAIN |
| Zeus Consulting SA |
GREECE |
| Systema Informatics S.A. |
GREECE |
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas |
GREECE |
| Institute of Computer and Communication Systems,
Bulgarian Acadamy of Sciences |
BULGARIA |
| VALTECH |
FRANCE |
| Terra Incognita Europa Limited |
UNITED KINGDOM |
| Subcontractors: |
| Southern
Ural State
University |
RUSSIA |
| Universität
Wien |
AUSTRIA |
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Funded
by the European Commission
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