The document discusses the significance of the DM2E project at the Europeana final event, highlighting Europeana as a platform for accessing 36 million cultural heritage objects from various contributors. It emphasizes the benefits of DM2E for researchers, such as enhanced access to materials, improved tools for annotation, and the development of workflows for data aggregation and linked open data. Additionally, it outlines the purpose of the Europeana Data Model in supporting metadata enrichment and interoperability across diverse datasets.

1. Europeana and the relevance
of the DM2E results
Antoine Isaac
DM2E Final Event
Pisa, December 11

2. Europe’s platform to access cultural heritage
Currently
36M objects

3. Built on descriptive metadata
from a broad, heterogeneous network
2,300 galleries, museums, archives and libraries
The Culture.fr
European
Library
Audiovisual
collections
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
Musées
Lausannois
APEX
European Film
Gateway Europeana Fashion

4. More than this

5. Distributing content
Europeana aims to provide content in the users’ workflow –
where they want it, when they want it.
 Web portal, project portals/exhibitions, social media, app
 Others using Europeana data independently

6. We believe
Culture transforms lives

7. We are a community of > 2500
members who contribute data,
technology, knowledge and
business opportunities
A network of cultural innovators

9. Europeana as multi-sided platform

11. DM2E perfectly fits

13. DM2E benefits for researchers
More material in Europeana relevant for
digital humanities
Cf Doron’s talk

14. DM2E benefits for researchers
Better tools - annotation
Fitting a scholarly model of researcher activities
Cf. Christian and Steffen’s talk later
Pundit
http://dm2e.eu/digital-humanities/

16. Infrastructure R&D
Workflows for data aggregation
Linked Open Data publication
Contextualization and provenance
Cf Kai’s talk
http://onto.dm2e.eu/omnom

17. Metadata Enrichment

18. Gathering/linking existing semantic,
multilingual data

19. Allowing different semantic grains
Idea behind the Europeana Data Model
Providers provide data close to original models
Using mappings to more interoperable level
statement at generic level
statement at specific level

20. Different semantic grains
EDM enables the definition
of extensions, “applications
profiles”
Based on best practices
from specific communities

21. Specialization of EDM in DM2E - Example
Slide by Steffen Hennicke

22. Innovating as a network
Cf Lieke’s talk http://openglam.org
http://openhumanitiesawards.org
http://judaicalink.org

23. Thank you!
Antoine Isaac
antoine.isaac@europeana.eu
@EuropeanaEU
Some images by Elco van Staveren, Denkschets