Mag. Gerda Koch, AIT Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH 14th International Congress Cultural Heritage and New Technologies Vienna, 17 November 2009

1. co-funded by the European Commission
Promoting Austrian Cultural and Scientific Heritage via
EUROPEANA
Cultural Heritage - Cultural Promotion - Tourism in the Danube Region
Mag. Gerda Koch, Dr. Sigrid Reinitzer, 17.11.2009

2. Part 1
Europeana – The European Digital Library
Status November 2009
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3. Initiative i2010 of the European Commission
• „Access for all“ (2005)
– Strengthening the European Information Space
Provide online access to the Europeana cultural and scientific heritage for all.
i2010 > recommends the
creation of a European Digital Library
as a single, multilingual access point to the European cultural and
scientific heritage
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4. Promoting Austrian Cultural and Scientific Heritage via
EUROPEANA
» Provide easy access to digitized material
» Attract new generations of internet users
» Make national (regional, local) cultural heritage and
scientific research international visible
» Create synergies between the different content
institutions (exchange of knowledge, working groups, work
on international themes...)
» Stimulate the creation of new products and services for
tourism and education
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5. Summary: Europeana is
• a joint European
ONLINE -
access point...
www.europeana.eu
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6. • ... which directly leads to the
digitized online content held by
the various European cultural
and educational organizations.
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7. Europeana
will not...
• ...collect the original data
• Only metadata (catalogue data) will be integrated in the joint virtual
catalogue
• A link will point to the local web sites and digital objects
• ...substitute local portals / web presence
• But your website will be discovered far more easily
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8. Europeana –
the European Digital Library
November
2008
Prototype >
www.europeana.eu
Developed from 07-
09 by EDLnet
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9. Europeana –
the European Digital Library
• Status autumn 2009:
• 4,6 Mio. digitized books, newspapers, videos, maps, photographs,
documents ...
• More than 1000 cultural heritage institutions are providing
content (direct or via aggregators)
• More than 150 institutions are included in the partner network
• Work concentrates on the first public release – Europeana 1.0 – in
July 2010 (Rhine Release)
• Constant improvement of functionalities:
• Search functionality and gateways (APIs)
• Web 2.0 Services (interactive und collaborative functions)
• Improvment of multilinguality
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10. Content Status Autumn 2009
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17. How is content integrated into Europeana?
• Individual Organisations
• Thematic
• Domain ... Aggregators
• Regional
• The preferred model for the future
is for Europeana to deal only with
aggregators unless there is a
strategic necessity to deal
directly with an individual provider.
The desired position is shown
in the image.
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18. Mapping of the local metadata to...
• ESE Schema v3.2 (base on Dublin Core Qualified)
• Europeana mandatory fields:
• The metadata must include a link to the digital object, or to the
content provider‘s website where the digital object is presented
• The name of the content provider
Task of the
• The data must fall under one of Aggregator
the following object types
(video, image, sound, text)
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19. Part 2
Selected Europeana Aggregators
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21. EuropeanaConnect
www.europeanaconnect.eu
co-funded by the European Commission
• Its overall objective is to deliver core components which are essential for the
realisation of Europeana, the European Digital Library as a truly interoperable,
multilingual and user-oriented service for all European citizens.
• EuropeanaConnect will also add the music dimension to Europeana by
aggregating a critical mass of audio content.
• Best Practice Netzwerk
(eContentplus – digital libraries initiative)
• 30 Partners from 14 countries
• From: Libraries, Audio Archives, Research Institutions, Universities, European
Digital Library Foundation
• Duration: Mai 2009 - October 2011
• Coordinator: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (AT)
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22. The Audio Aggregation
Platform
www.dismarc.eu
www.europeanaconnect.eu
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23. EuropeanaLocal
www.europeanalocal.eu
co-funded by the European Commission
• Regional and local
cultural heritage and scientific information
for EUROPEANA
• Best Practice Netzwerk
(eContentplus – digital libraries initiative)
• 32 Partner from 27 countries
• From: Cultural institutions, digital libraries, Networks, European
Digital Library Foundation
• Duration: Juni 2008 - Mai 2011
• Coordinator: Sogn og Fjordane (NO)
• In each country: one regional content co-ordinator
• Austria: AIT Angewandte Informationstechnik, Graz
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24. http://www.europeana-local.at The Austrian
Aggregation Platform
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25. Joint Virtual Metadata Catalogue
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26. Detail View
Metadata at the
Austrian Aggregator
Platform
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27. OAI Provider
The place from where Europeana will
harvest the data (into www.europeana.eu)
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28. The Austrian Aggregator‘s Site provides
various Tools
Example: The Online Mapping Tool
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29. FAQ – If you want to know more...
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30. Information
Email
information lists
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31. Digitale Bibliothek Austria - DBA
• The creation of Austrian working groups for content
aggregation to Europeana was suggested in February 2009
• 13 November 2009: first Meeting of the Austrian DBA work
groups in Vienna
• Focus of activities:
• Aggregation
• Strategy, policy and development
• Technical and semantic issues
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32. Biodiversity Heritage Library Europe
www.bhl-europe.eu
co-funded by the European Commission
• Create a portal for literature on biodiversity research
and contribute to EUROPEANA
• Best Practice Netzwerk
(eContentplus – digital libraries initiative)
• 28 Partners from 13 European countries and the US
• From: Natural History Museums, Libraries, Universities,
Research Centres, Botanical Gardens
• Duration: Mai 2009 - April 2012
• Coordinator: Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und
Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin (DE)
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33. Free access to digitized biodiversity research literature
A global aim
• BHL Portal since 2007
in the US
• BHL Europe
since 2009
• BHL China and
• BHL Australia will
probably join soon
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34. www.biodiversitylibrary.org
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35. 1. BHL-E Prototype: November 2010
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36. www.bhl-europe.eu
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37. Planning
• All projects work to contribute data to the Europeana Rhine
Release (July 2010) (ESEv3.2)
• First Test Imports planned for autumn 2009.
• Technical developments are contributed to the Europeana
Sandbox
(= workgroup platform/test environment where all
developments of the diverse Europeana projects are
contributed to)
• All projects are „open“ – meaning:
New Partners are welcome!
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38. Kontakt:
Mag. Gerda Koch
kochg@europeana-local.at
AIT Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
Klosterwiesgasse 32/1, 8010 Graz
Tel: 0316 - 83 53 59
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