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EHPMuseum
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EHPMuseum is an Open Source Plone based cultural heritage portal, that was 
developed in the Eydehavnportal project, sponsored by ABM-Utvikling in Norway.

The Eydehavnportal project was done by Aust-Agder Kulturhistoriske Senter in 
co-operation with Agder University College. Our main objective was to create 
a technical framework for integrating data from various museum, archiving and 
library systems in a cultural heritage portal. The Eydehavn portal will be 
filled with content about the history of the industry town Eydehavn that was 
built around the smelting works founded by Ragnvald Blakstad and Sam Eyde. 
Sam Eyde was one of the largest industry founders in Norway in the beginning 
of the 20th century. Sam Eyde founded compaines like Norsk Hydro, Eydehavn 
smelting works and Nitriden.

EHPMuseum uses the CIDOC CRM XML model as a common transport
format between different culture heritage systems. XML data is stored
in PostgreSQL, and is accessed and indexed using adapted Plone products.

The datapump maps Norwegian data according to the field standard to the common 
CIDOC transport format.  Mappings are supported for the Museum and Archiving 
systems ASTA and Primus, and Normarc based library systems. The datapump 
interface has a general mapping interface that should be easy to adapt to 
other museum, archiving or library systems as well.

Overview over modules:
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Cidoc			Cidoc XML generation library
Datapump		Data pump to pump data from archives into portal
Documentation           User documentation, system documentation and course
ItemdataConverter	Parsing of Cidoc on portal side
Itemviewer		Plone product for showing CIDOC metadata for an artifact
Photogallery		Zope product for showing photos in the portal
			Fetches images from SQL database and instantiates them
			as Zope objects.
Webinterface		CPS skins interface for the Eydehavn portal


The Eydehavnportal was written by:
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Tor Oskar Wilhelmsen <towilh00@grm.hia.no>       
Morten Goodwin Olsen <goodwin@realgoodwin.com>
Svein Arild Myrer    <myrer@online.no>
Nils Ulltveit-Moe    <Nils.Ulltveit-Moe@hia.no> (Project leader, technical)

Other contributors:
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Berit Stie           <Berit.Stie@aaks.no>       (Project manager)
Brit ěsterud         <Brit.Osterud@aaks.no>     (Project leader, content)
Vidar Hauge          <Vidar.Hauge@aaks.no>      (Technical expert)
Mikael Snaprud       <Mikael.Snaprud@hia.no>    (HIA partner, prestudy)