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Summary
• The European Commission action towards a European Digital Library – The EDLnet project – The European Digital Library Foundation
• EDLnet program of work and organisation
• Work achieved so far
‘In the context of our i2010 - Digital Libraries initiative the European Commission envisages the creation of a European Digital Library: a unique resource to Europe's distributed cultural heritage, ensuring a common access to millions of great paintings, historical writings, ancient manuscripts, diaries of the famous and not so famous, personal photos, and important national documents from Europe's libraries, archives and museums.’
Horst Forster , Director Digital Content & Cognitive Systems, EUROPE'S CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE IN A DIGITAL WORLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, BERLIN 21-22 FEBRUARY 2007
The Vision of the European Commission
The Vision of the European Commission
Across Museums, Archives, Libraries initially – then other data or audio or visual repositories in the cultural heritage arena . A Thematic Network The European Digital Library
Centres of Competence
Access
Digitisation
Preservation
EDLnet - An inter domain network
• To establish trust between the institutions – Thematic Network Partner Group – EDL Foundation
• To make recommendations for future research to continue to ensure access to the digital heritage of Europe.
• Propose practical implementation of the European Digital Library.
• The network is open for lifetime of the project to all relevant cultural heritage institutions.
• EDLnet Office, in the KB (NL)• Thematic Network Partner Group
– Across 4 domains Museums, Libraries, Archives and Audio-visual Archives
– Creating the political and technical environments necessary to work effectively together
So Therefore:
• Determines Organisational Structure for the European Digital Library
• Creates a coalition of the willing and consensus on a roadmap
• Tackles domain level interoperability issues
• Builds prototypes against stakeholder and user requirements
EDLnet - a thematic network for cultural heritage domains
Thematic Partner Network, the Workgroups & the Network Advisory Board
WG1 Human, Political & Intercommunity
WG2.1 Standards & Interoperability of Standards
WG2.2 Semantic & Multilingual Interoperability
WG2.3 Technical Architecture
WG3 Users & Usability
EDL Foundation
Network Advisory Board
ThematicPartner Network
• to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage.
So the Foundation will: • facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives,
audio-visual archives and libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal.
• provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding purposes and as a springboard for future governance.
Purpose:
a. European Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders;
b. National Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders;
c. International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch (non legal entity) of this association;
d. relevant individual institutions (legal entities) for one of the Domains, and
e. natural persons for the benefit of a relevant individual institution or association for one of the Domains, which is not a legal entity.
Foundation Members can be:
• to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage.
So the Foundation will: • facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives,
audio-visual archives and libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal.
• provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding purposes and as a springboard for future governance.
Purpose:EURBICA
FIATACEEMFCENL
LIBER
MICHAEL
KBICOM EuropeCERL
European Regional Branch of Intl. Council on Archives
Intl. Fed. of Television Archives
Association Cinémathèques Europeennes
European Museums Forum
Conference of European National Librarians
Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in EuropeNational Library of The Netherlands
International Council of Museums Europe
Consortium of European Research Libraries
Martine de Boisdeffre
Edwin van Huis
Claudia Dillmann
Massimo Negri
Elisabeth Niggemann
Hans Geleijnse
Christophe Dessaux
Wim van Drimmelen
Pan European Association Board of Participants Executive Board
• June 29 - Small meeting of major European Associations to discuss concept and first draft of statutes for Foundation
• Summer 07 – agreement on Articles for Foundation
• September 12 - Founder Meeting and nominations for Executive Committee
• November 07– Legal Foundation in place• Statutes to Commission 27 November 07• Next Board Meeting 28 November 07, Brussels
Timeline to date
– Apenet Archives– Arrow Rights Management
Libraries
& Publishers– Athena Museums– EDLlocal Local & Regional Museums,
Libraries, Archives– EFG Film
Projects agreed on to date:
EDLnet Work plan 5 Work Packages
• WP1: Human, Political & Intercommunity Interoperability led by ABM Centrum, Sweden (Mats Lindquist) and MLA, UK (Chris Batt & David Dawson)
• WP2: Technical & Semantic Interoperability led by Stefan Gradmann (University of Hamburg, Germany) which formerly led also the EU Interoperability Group & Makx Dekkers with help from Carlo Meghini (ICSTI, Italy)
• WP3: Users and Usability led by Daniel Teruggi, with help from Philippe Poncin from the Institut National d’ Audiovisuel, France
• WP4: Concertation and Dissemination, led by Eremo s.r.l• WP5: Management and Coordination, led by the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek, the host of The European Library who will execute the work together with new project staff within EDLnet Office.
CIMEC
Organisation Map
EDL
ABM utvikling
MICHAEL
ABM Centrum
EUBAM
MLA
Heritage Malta
RUNAS
Apenet
A&ANaturalis
TEL
EFG
AthenaEDL
Local
VideoActive
British Museum
INA
Rijks Museum
Beeld en Geluid
CervantesLibrary
Gottingen Univ. Lib.
TATE
EuropeanArchive
National Portals or Aggregators Domain Portals
Web Service or API
Large Independents
The harvestible
rest
Michael
Recommendations:Phase 1• All content partners encouraged to use an aggregator –
national portal (both cross and single domain) or vertical aggregrator or portal to deliver their content to the European Digital Library– Cross domain are portals such as MLA, ABM Centrum– Single domain are German Film Inst, INA– Vertical are The European Library and proposed portals such
as European Film Gateway, APEnet• To undertake further research to establish all the single
domain portals in each country and encourage participation in EDLnet and the EDL
• Data needs to be normalised at a national or Aggregators level
EDL Hybrid Organisation Modelin 2 – 3 phases
Recommendations:Phase 2• All content partners not belonging to a national
or vertical aggregator or portal may submit content using a set of standards and a tool kit to create those standards. Must conform to the minimum terms – need to sell the benefits of standardisation across the sectors
• A third phase is also envisaged where EDL actively harvests or crawls interesting content.
EDL Hybrid Organisation Modelin 2 phases
• EDL creates both a single portal and is able to make the information available to other portals or learning environments
• Need to deal with as low a level of granularity as is possible therefore need to be able to deal with complex objects
• EDL ‘Play’ page – Results screen click to Play page including digital image –full version of the digital image can be displayed next but so can all the peripheral linking, suggestion information.
Other Recommendations (1)
• Landing page should be in native language where feasible – so automatic translation
• EDLnet editorial– Needs to be automatically generated by the portal– Can also be generated by the expert or trusted
user– It should be possible to separate out the user
generated content from the institutional.
Other Recommendations (2)
• All new portals funded by the commission should insist on the standardisation recommendations of EDLnet
• Cannot loose sight of Interoperability as the long term goal. Data needs to work with all others in order to produce the results the user is looking for
• Architecture should be built on preferred approach
• About Digital content but need to consider related records for which there is no digital content – filter at aggregator level in delivering digital content only, but could change this later, so EDL needs to able to deal with catalogue records as well.
Other recommendations (3)
Maquette & Prototype
• Prove of concepts for a user oriented common interface for search, discovery and use across all domains contents– Results of search are digital objects or surrogates (copyright
management)– Multilingual interface + multilingual search features– “Innovative, modern features that are suitable for all visitors”
(European Parliament Resolution 27 September 2007) = some realistic vision on where we could be tomorrow
• Social web, semantic web, personalisation, collaboration, accessibility
• Maquette by January 2008 • Prototype by November 2008. 2 million objects• Selected theme: the CITY
– Cities of the future/cities of the past ; migration and diaspora ; urban cool and urban chic ; death, disease and drainage ; archeology and architecture ; utopias and cities of the imagination ; riot and disorder ; palaces and politics.
Interaction of EDL with providers
• aggregators
• Object models
• Metadata
• Ingestion/Delivery Methods
• Rights Management
• Commercial aspects
• Versioning
Object Models
• Objects vs. Representations / Surrogates• Add abstractions (formerly Metadata)
– TOC+Index– Full text index items– Extracts / Aggregations– Links to semantic nodes– Thumbnails– Music / video abstractions: colour histograms,– Shape abstractions– Signatures