Here we list a whole set of topics that you could consider when considering Digital Cultural Heritage Software and tools.


DCH Application Level Service - CLOWDER

Clowder Description: Digital Cultural Heritage application level service flagship is the Clowder. Clowder is a research data management system designed to support any data format and multiple research domains. It contains three major extension points: pre-processing, processing and previewing. When new data is added to the system, pre-processing is off-loaded to extraction services for extracting appropriate data and metadata. The extraction services attempt to extract information and run pre-processing steps based on the type of the data, for example to create previews. This raw metadata is presented to the user in the Clowder web interface. Users can upload, download, search, visualize and get various information about these data. Data can be of very diverse types and formats. More specifically users can upload massively or individual files of:

  • 3D Models: extractors clean up and prepare for visualization on platform itself.
  • Scanned books and their metadata: OCR algorithms will be used to extract the text in the documents so that users can find books using both metadata information and the book’s contents.
  • Image, text and sound files and their metadata, organised in collections.
  • Advanced documentation data, such as Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and analysis of material properties of structures, works of art and artefacts.

Clowder Training Material: A tutorial on how one can use the VI-SEEM Clowder can be found in the following two files:

Tutorial on using the VI-SEEM clowder (pdf)

Tutorial on using the VI-SEEM clowder with Videos (pptx)