europeana and user generated content - an introduction and overview
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Europeana and User Generated Content - An Introduction and Overview. Quick overview of Europeana's work with User Generated Content (in its wider sense) and how it links to the Europeana Strategic Plan and its four strands: Aggregate, Facilitate, Distribute, Engage. These slided were presented at the Europeana Connect and ASSETS workshop UGC4GLAM, http://dme.ait.ac.at/ugc4glam/TRANSCRIPT
Europeana and User Generated ContentIntroduction and overview
ASSETS and Europeana Connect UGC4Glam Workshop, May 16-17
David Haskiya, Product Developer&Project Coordinator
become THE trusted source for cultural heritage
AGGREGATE
Expand the networkSource content
Improve data quality
FACILITATESupport cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation & advocay
Make heritage available wherever they are whenever they want it
DISTRIBUTE
Upgrade portalDevelop partnerships
Put content in user workflow
cultivate new way for users to participate in their cultural heritage
ENGAGE
What do we mean by UGC?
Participation, Co-ownership, Sharing, Conversation, Dialogue, Co-creation, Re-use, Exploring, Connecting, Contextualisation, Questioning, Relationships…
A little bit more concretely:
ContentAnnotations
TranslationsCuration
Conversation
User Created Content
• From institutional partners through regular harvesting
• Great War Archive, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Culture Schock
• From our own “The First World War in Everyday Documents”-project
• Aubery will present this project in detail
User created annotations
• Semantic tagging in the portal
• Building on the YUMA toolsuite
• Comments in the exhibitions
• Building on an Omeka add-on
Crowdsourced translations
• Of the portal user interface and systems messages
• Of the portal editorial texts
User Created Curation
• Embed item function
• For integration on personal blogs
• User created galleries
• For selecting, annotating and embedding multiple Europeana items
Conversation
• Blog
The artists:• Slide 8: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen• Slide 7: André Louis Armand Rassenfosse• Slide 9: Andrew Penfield• Slide 1: Jules Cheret• Slide 11: Kolo Moser• Slide 12: George Henri Meunier• Slides 6, 10: Unknown artists