The Visualising China Project is hosting a one-day workshop at the ILRT in Bristol on Tuesday 21st September, with presentations and discussion on the topic of cross-searching distributed, interrelated, online resources.

The workshop will tackle topics such as harvesting protocols (including OAI-related solutions), Semantic Web-based metadata integration approaches, presentation layer problems/solutions such as for ranking search results, and scalability/sustainability issues in cross-searching. (from invitation email)

Among the confirmed contributions is a presentation by the Visualising China project on its solution for harvesting data linking to two large, separate image collections. The Connected Histories project will present their experiences in cross-searching more than 10 online datasets. More recommendations for speakers and topics for discussion are welcomed.

If you have suggestions and/or wish to attend, please contact Nikki Rogers as soon as possible: nikki.rogers@bristol.ac.uk.

About the project:

The Visualising China Project is developing a web-based resource where users can explore digitised images of historical photographs of China.  An alpha version allows users to explore more than 6,000 images taken between 1870 and 1950.

The project builds on recent digitisation work undertaken by the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol where a large, growing collection of historical photographs of China was created (some are searchable and browsable at http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr).

The Visualising China project is funded by the JISC within the eContent Programme.