achieving interoperability between carare schema for monuments and sites and edm
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Achieving interoperability between the CARARE schema for monuments and sites
and the Europeana Data Model
Valentine Charles, Kate Fernie, Antoine Isaac, Dimitris Gavrilis, Stavros Angelis and Costis Dallas
EuropeanaTech Conference February 2015
Achieving interoperability with Europeana à We made a mapping between EDM and the CARARE metadata
schema: finding correspondences between the elements of both models
à Helps users of the CARARE schema to send good metadata to Europeana
à Why is it important to report on this?
• Mapping is rarely an easy issue • Models are complex, with subtle differences in world views • Both CARARE and Europeana benefits from “mapping meditation”
• One of the hardest (confronting) metadata exercises!
• Sharing concrete experiences benefits all Europeana partners
edm:hasView
ore:Aggregation
edm:WebResource3 edm:WebResource1 edm:WebResource2
Scenario 1: Monuments are represented as CARARE Heritage Assets and Digital Resources are views of lesser cultural
importance and are treated as EDM WebResources
edm:isRepresentationOf
edm:ProvidedCHO 1
edm:ProvidedCHO 4 edm:ProvidedCHO 2
Scenario 2: Digital Resources are cultural objects qualifying as EDM CHOs
edm:ProvidedCHO 3
Scenario 3: Cultural objects referencing the CARARE HA count as CHOs
dcterms:isReferencedBy
edm:ProvidedCHO 1
edm:ProvidedCHO 3 edm:ProvidedCHO 2
Contextual Resources – Events
CARARE’s event data can be represented in EDM Event class but not yet implemented in Europeana
edm:hasMet
edm:Event
edm:ProvidedCHO 1
Conclusions
à CARARE provides better “profile” for archaeology/architecture
heritage and rich metadata for Europeana
à In the process of mapping • We identified non-trivial issues
• We documented solutions (CARARE->EDM case study)
• It prompted updates to CARARE’s schema (3D ICONS project) • It confirms the relevance of a richer model like EDM for Europeana
• Human supervision remains crucial for choosing the right option • Data curators can help here as with many other quality issues in data
aggregation projects!
EDM documentation: http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation EDM case study: http://www.pro.europeana.eu/carare-edm CARARE schemas and documentation: http://www.carare.eu/eng/Resources/CARARE-Documentation Winning paper at DCMI2013: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2013/paper/view/171/171
Valentine Charles, Kate Fernie, Antoine Isaac, Costis Dallas, Dimitris Gavrilis, Stavros Angelis