europeana vision - web as literature 2013
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Presentation at the Web as Literature event (http://webasliterature.org/), British Library, June 10 2013TRANSCRIPT
A Europeana Vision
Antoine Isaac
The Web as LiteratureBritish Library, June 10, 2013
What is Europeana?
Europe’s digital cultural network
Museums
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
26M objects and 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries
What types of objects does Europeana gives access to?
Text Image Video Sound 3D
What Europeana makes available
Metadata
Link to digital objects online
How to access Europeana objects?
Enabling access to content in users’ workflow
Europeana.eu portal
Project portals and exhibitions
Search engines
Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest…)
Websites and apps using Europeana data independently
Europeana as infrastructure for re-use
Available via
API
Search widgets
Semantic mark-up (schema.org) on portal
Linked Open Data pilot
http://pro.europeana.eu/api
http://data.europeana.eu
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/
Linked & Open Data
Multiple providers, multiple aggregations
Functions of the new Europeana Data Model
1. Distinguish a cultural object (painting, book) from its digital representations
2. Distinguish the object from its metadata record
3. Multiple descriptions for a same object
4. Support for objects that are composed of other objects
5. Compatible with different levels of description
Generic/interoperable vs. specific/domain-centered
Object-centric and event-centric (CRM)
6. Describe other resources (concepts, persons, places…)
http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation/
A model for linking metadata
• Links between objects within or across Europeana collections
• Links to objects from external collections
• Links to contextual resources
• Resources described in Europeana or elsewhere
Providers’ thesauri, gazetteers, vs. Geonames, GEMET, DBpedia
• Links created by providers, Europeana, or third parties
Open metadata
CC
Positioning Europeana as a data hub
Benefits for providers, users and application developers
Higher profile data - meaningful links between resources, not isolated objects
Authority data - a trusted European reference set of cultural objects
Unified access - accessible from one place, using one data model
Open access
New Audience - more visibility for objects
New Tools - contextualized data for innovative, more sophisticated tools
How can Europeana support scholarly activities?
We’ve got a lot of supply
But we need to be more demand-driven
Content sourcing
Which providers & collections to focus on?
Interoperability
Which metadata profiles should Europeana align with?
How and where to publish data?
Data quality and curation
Which resources to link to?
Or maybe it would happen in related projects!
CENDARI, ResearchSpace
HuNi
Also gathering Also gathering contentcontent
• A centralized index of full-text resourcesOver 24 million pages of textual content, mostly from OCR
• Will be expanded by Europeana NewspapersMore than 18 million pageshttp://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/
Europeana Cloud
Researchers
In particular for researchers in humanities and social sciences
Content & Data
• Analyse how scholars work with data and perceive the value of the content in Europeana
• Build a platform extending the portal of The European Library
• Propose tools for scholars to interact with the contentdiscover, access and analyze data, annotate, transcribe
• Jointly with:• DARIAH - Network of arts and humanities researchers• CESSDA - Council of European Social Science Data Archives
Europeana Cloud goals
Beyond Infrastructure! Further Modeling the Scholarly DomainProf. Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Digital Humanities Seminar Leipzig, November 7
2012
Digitised Manuscripts toEuropeana (DM2E)
Provide content to Europeana with a focus on digitised manuscripts
Explore usage scenarios of EDM in a specialised platform for humanities research with specialised visualisation and reasoning
Represent in EDM the material worked on by researchers as well as the provenance of the annotations they produce.
http://dm2e.eu
Example: annotation
Pundit @ DM2E project
Or perhaps there won’t be as much happening?
#AllezCulture campaign
Defend EU’s sustainable funding for the Europeana network
http://pro.europeana.eu/protect-our-cef-funding
Thank you
Antoine Isaac - [email protected]
with slides from the Europeana Office
Alastair Dunning, Nuno Freire (The European Library, Europeana Cloud)
Stefan Gradmann (DM2E)