MOM-CADigital charters in the

Monasterium - Collaborative Archive

What is MOM-CA?

• Virtual Archive of the Monasterium-Project• Research tool• Collaborative editing platform• Free to use• Over 80 archives in 10 European countries• More than 200000 charters

Archives in MOM-CA

Possibilities

• Hierarchical browsing of the archives and fonds

• Searching the full text of the database• Viewing a charter’s images and metadata• Bookmarking interesting objects• Sharing interesting objects using permanent

links• Editing all charters online

Technology

• Modern web technologies• Open source software• Native XML Database eXist• CEI based XML Schema for charter metadata• Research environment based on XRX

technologies• Online-Editor executed as a Java Applet

Fond view

Fond selection

Fond view

Charters view

Detail view

MyArchive area

Detail view

Editor - abstract

Editor – full text

Editor - Intitulatio

Full text: XML

<cei:tenor><cei:invocatio lang="Latin"><cei:persName certainty="100%" lang="Latin" reg="Frederick">Fredericus</cei:persName>, divina favente clementia Romanorum imperator electus et semper augustus, rex <cei:geogName certainty="100%" existent="Yes" lang="Latin" reg="Sicily" type="Island">Sicilie</cei:geogName>, ducatus <cei:geogName certainty="100%" existent="Yes" lang="Lation" reg="Apulia" type="Region">Apulie</cei:geogName> et principatus […] amen.</cei:tenor>

User model

• User– Edit and temporarily store metadata – Send changes to the moderator

• Moderator– Review new text– Highlight changed parts of the metadata– Get in contact with the editor– Publish or discard the changes

Moderator view

Future developments

• Improved editor interface with AJAX• New research possibilities due to a fully

searchable database incl. all metadata fields• Storing interesting documents in user defined

public collections

Thank you!