Europeana bergen may2010_dovwiner

“Our communities, with a view towards e-Learning” COST A32 Workshop in Bergen, May 28-30, 2010 Europeana for Scholarship research and eLearning Dov Winer MAKASH Advancing CMC in Education, Culture and Science (IL) Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana (EAJC, UK)

From Gradmann (2008) http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

From Gradmann (2008) From Gradmann (2008) http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

• Europeana • Linked Open Data • Scholarly and eLearning applications

Europeana ― the vision “A digital library that is a single, Europe’s digital libraries, direct and multilingual access point archives and museums to the European cultural heritage.” online European Parliament, 27 September 2007 • A showcase for Europe’s “A unique resource for Europe's cultural and scientific distributed cultural heritage … heritage ensuring a common access to Europe's libraries, archives and • A flagship project of the museums.” European Commission and Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content & the European Parliament. Cognitive Systems Information Society Directorate, European Commission

Jill Cousins, Europeana Foundation, May 2010, Berlin

From Jill Cousins (2010)

From Jill Cousins (2010) From Repository to WunderKamer: user participation in Europeana. DISH 2009 Rotterdam

eBooks on Demand From Silvia Gstrein, eBooks on Demand, Europeana Connect meeing Berlin April 2010

F Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop

C. Concordia et al. (2009). Not (just) a Repository, not (just) a Digital Library, nor (just) a Portal: A Portrait of Europeana as an API. IFLA, Milan.

Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop

http://linkeddata.org/ http://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDump http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics (~13 Billion triplets March 9, 2010)

http://esw.w3.org/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData

SKOS Simple Knowledge ORGANIZATION SYSTEM thesauri, classifications, subjects, taxonomies, folksonomies,… controlled vocabulary concepts are documented, linked, merged with other data, composed, integrated and published on the Web CONCEPTS identified by URIs using RDF triples :natural language expressions to refer to concepts skos: prefLabel [descriptor] skos: altLabel [synonims, acronyms, abbreviations] SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS …broader and narrower concepts broader/narrower relationships assert that a concept is broader/narrower in meaning related…concepts somehow related SCHEMES compiled sets of concepts: ConceptScheme class and inScheme relationship to link a concept to a scheme hasTopConcept relationship for the entry points of narrower/broader hierarchy LINK schemes map concepts from different schemes using the properties exactMatch, broadMatch, narrowMatch and relatedMatch May 10 dov.winer@gmail.com

SKOS APPLICATIONS I want to send my thesaurus/subject heading/taxonomy from one database/application to another I want to publish my thesaurus/taxonomy… in an “electronic” form, so that it can become part of a distributed information network/environment The Web values quality and openness (e.g. Wikipedia) KOS are high quality resources [both the concepts and the links] KOS are natural hubs…attractors…high gravity…attract links act as firm foundation for a Web of data… Links are paths to discovery (of documents, data,…); they can be exploited in useful and surprising ways (serendipity); well established KOS e.g. LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings, AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus) can be hubs in the Web of linked data May 10 dov.winer@gmail.com

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/search/

C. Concordia et al. (2009). Not (just) a Repository, not (just) a Digital Library, nor (just) a Portal: A Portrait of Europeana as an API. IFLA, Milan.

http://relfinder.dbpedia.org/relfinder.html

Shai Ophir (2010). A New Type of Historical Knowledge. Information Society,, 26: 144-150, 2010,

Thank you for your attention! Contact: Dov Winer dov.winer@gmail.com

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