4. Going back to basics with Metadata
What are end users looking for?
• Title
• Picture
• Description
• Digital Object
• Source
• Attribution
• Correct Rights Label
• Institution attribution
• Format (dependent on object type)
• Consistency (persistent identifiers)
8. Importance of Titles
• Allows end user to easily search results in
the portal
• Provided by using dc:title or dc:terms
alternative or taken from the dc:description
• Needs to be meaningful
• No title, less click through
14. Importance of Pictures
• Allows end user to easily identify objects
• Creates a connection with the object
• Supplied by europeana:object (thumbnail),
europeana:isShownBy (lightbox/or thumbnail when
explicitly stated)
• EDM allows for multiple web-resources and images
(supplied with rdf:about in the contextual class)
• Increases click through rate and re-use of digital
object
19. Importance of Description
• Allows end user to identify importance of the
object
• Ideally meaningful short title plus good
description
• Supplied by dc:description (mandatory if dc:title
is not supplied or meaningful)
• Description compliments any other metadata
supplied
23. Digital Object and Source
isShownBy resolves to the digital object alone
24. Digital Object and Source
isShownBy resolves to the digital object alone
25. Digital Object and Source
• Europeana contains metadata, it is not a content
repository it facilitates access but directs
outwards
• A valid isShownAt or isShownBy is a mandatory
element in submitted metadata
• Allows the end user to get greater information
and/or context on the object
