The vertical prototype was successfully created, and implements the CIDOC-CRM model through a solution that is scalable and performs to what is expected of it, despite there being some needed improvements. It is a full-stack vertical prototype with a server and client, with an end, a middle and a top layer that is fully interconnected and throughout all of its communication maintains the consistency of the model. It is possible through the client to perform all kinds of CRUD operations.
It’s performance and load capacity have been validated as up to standards. The prototype will be utilized as a platform from which the project Episa can grow from to eventually become a complete platform in order to replace the current Digitarq platform.
The bigger difficulties faced on this thesis was the synchronization of the model creation with the implementation development. Several times, ideas on the improvement of the model would have made implementations less effective, and only having implementation in mind would have made the model weaker. Additionally the fact that there are so few CIDOC-CRM implementations amkes it hard to follow on best practices, or on how to create Data Properties, and so on.
In the future, beyond expanding the prototype to represent the Digitarq fully, it is expected that the new database can be used to feed data for machine learning techniques to obtain new knowledge regarding all of the information in the TT archive. Additionally, after the system starts being used by archivists it will be necessary to reassess the ability of the CIDOC-CRM model to satisfy those new requirements and adapt it to further improvements.
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