Update on the #EuropeanaTech network (pro.europeana.eu/europeana-tech) at the Europeana General Assembly Meeting 2013

1. EuropeanaTech
Exploring the Future of Europeana
Antoine Isaac, Europeana Foundation
w/ slides from v2.0 WP7 partners: Humboldt University,
Austrian National Library, Sound & Vision
Europeana General Assembly 2013, December 2, Rotterdam

2. EuropeanaTech Key Objectives
 Develop the R&D community around Europeana
 Identify innovation potential for the development of
Europeana services
 Encourage experimentation

3. EuropeanaTech
Community and Activities
Europeana
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Task
Forces
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Developers
Further establishment of a developers network
FLOSS inventory
Solutions for user interaction and user generated content
Semantic Web and Linked Data
Contribution to multilingual features of Europeana

4. Inventory of FLOSS in the Cultural Heritage Domain
A resource that can be used by partners – and which they can contribute
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5. Two prototypes for user-generated metadata
1. based on the Waisda? Video Labeling Game
2. based on PyBossa, tagging game for still images
Open source code available for reuse
http://waisda.tuxic.nl:8080/
http://github.com/beeldengeluid/waisda/
http://culttag8.herokuapp.com

6. Completed Task Forces
Recommendations for the representation of hierarchical
objects in Europeana
 Case studies provided by the domains represented in Europeana
 EDM patterns for representing various types of hierarchies
EDM – FRBRoo application profile
 Samples illustrating the combined use of EDM and FRBRoo to
represent FRBR-style data
 Relations between the classes and properties of the two models

7. Ongoing Task Forces
EDM mappings, refinements and extensions
 Collect mappings, adaptations, extensions to EDM by partners
 Document/summarize over 20 exemplar cases
 Report expected in January 2014
Multilingual & Semantic Enrichment Strategy
 Identify vocabularies and rules to enrich collections
 Enabling to better exploit collections in a multilingual context
 Workshop in Berlin, November 8, report expected end Dec 2013

8. Your contribution is crucial!
EuropeanaTech homepage:
pro.europeana.eu/europeana-tech/
And don’t forget the mailing list and
follow @EuropeanaTech on twitter !

9. Your contribution is crucial!
EuropeanaTech homepage:
pro.europeana.eu/europeana-tech/
And don’t forget the mailing list and
follow @EuropeanaTech on twitter !