Mapping metadata from Judaica collections
to Europeana Metadata Scheme (EDM)
Part 1
Esther Guggenheim
National Library of Israel, Europeana and Metadata Coordinator
Marko Knepper
Frankfurt University Library, Head of IT

Judaica Europeana
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/

Europeana Judaica Partners
Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris
Jewish Museum Berlin
American Jewish Distribution Committee (JDC)
Archives, New York
Jewish Museum, Frankfurt/Main
Amitié, Centre for Research and Innovation, Bologna
Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art
Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam
Brandeis University Library
British Library, London
Center for Jewish History, New York
Leo Baeck Institute
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem
Jewish Museum in Prague
Jewish Museum London
Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens
Jewish Theological Seminary Library, New York
Leopold Zunz Zentrum, Halle-Wittenberg
Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Rome
National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
Paris Yiddish Centre, Medem Library
Centre français des musiques juives, Paris
Royal Library: National Library of Denmark and
Copenhagen University Library
Hungarian Jewish Archives, Budapest
Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut, Essen
Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London
Sephardi Museum, Toledo
Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Universitätsbibliothek der Goethe Universität, Judaica
Sammlung, Frankfurt/Main
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Metadata schemes
partners
Dublin Core
EAD
MARC21
METS/MODS
TEI
Private schemata (Open source software and/or
SQL databases)

Aggregators
Judaica Europeana (2010 – 2012)
Digital Manuscripts to Europeana
(DM2E)
Athena Plus

Europeana
Metadata Schemes
Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE)
http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/ese/
Europeana Data Model (EDM)
http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation
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allows to use linked data
URI from provider or automatic enrichment
hierarchy (is part of)

Mapping for specific projects
DM2E extensions
http://dm2e.eu/document/#DM2EModelSpecification
•
allow for annotations on a page level and within
page to be shared
Athena Plus
ingestion via LIDO
http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v0.9/lido-v0.9-schema-listing.html
• delivery format for museum objects

Challenges
• analyze source data
• vast amount of EDM fields – find most
appropriate for each element in source data
• avoid data loss (including structure of original
data)
• functionality vs. appearance in Europeana

Thank you
esther.guggenheim@nli.org.il