D12.3: Initial Infrastructure Implementation Report

Gavrilis, Dimitris; Papatheodorou, Christos; Afiontzi, Eleni; Makri, Dimitra-Nefeli; Dallas, Costis

doi:10.5281/zenodo.17143497

Published June 18, 2015 | Version v1

Project deliverable Open

D12.3: Initial Infrastructure Implementation Report

1. Athena Research and Innovation Center In Information Communication & Knowledge Technologies
2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Contributors

Researcher (9):

1. Swedish National Data Service
2. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo"
3. National Research Council
4. CNR, Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo" - ISTI
5. University of South Wales
6. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale
7. Polo Universitario Città di Prato

This document is a deliverable (D12.3 Initial Infrastructure Implementation Report) of the ARIADNE project (“Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe”), which is funded under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme. It presents results of the work carried out in Task 12.3 “Implementing Integration)”.

The overall architecture of the ARIADNE infrastructure has been laid down by the user requirements analysis (D12.1) and the infrastructure specifications (D12.2). The goal of the ARIADNE infrastructure is to integrate data and metadata from different providers into one common schema, and also to provide semantic integration along different axes (e.g. subject, space, time). This integration intends to provide useful and user-‐friendly information services for archaeology. The services are intended to be available not only to researchers and related stakeholders, but also to a wider range of potential users requiring access to collections and datasets.

The main goal of Task 12.3 is to present the initial infrastructure implementation of ARIADNE. The infrastructure is specified on D12.2 and includes services such as the registry, vocabulary services, metadata enrichment services, preservation services, etc. with the following components:

a) an RDF store

b) the first version of the portal

c) the MORe aggregation infrastructure

d) an Elasticsearch component

e) a metadata quality measurement service

f) a set of enrichment services

Task 12.3 and this report focusses on the description of core services. The core services are described and implemented as individual service components in the overall architecture, and their complementary role is presented. Task 12.3 will be followed by Task 12.4 Testing (which will be reported on in D12.4 Initial infrastructure testing report). This will be followed by another round of implementation and testing in Tasks 12.5 and 12.6.

The API specifications presented in the Annexes are especially important, as they allow developers to build on the infrastructure and deploy services. The APIs presented are REST-‐based and require data formats such as JSON, XML and RDF.

The development process of the ARIADNE portal (and other services) is an ongoing process. The initial approach and development is presented in a section nine.

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