2. The Project
Advanced Search Services and Enhanced Technological
Solutions for the European Digital Library
Birth Date April 1ST 2010 Duration 2 years
Co-funded by CIP Coordinator
Partners 24, including institutions from 10 different
European contries and Japan, active in the
field of cultural heritage and digital libraries
Main Goal Improve the accessibility
and usability of
3. The Consortium
Cultural Heritage & Technology Experts together
4. THE SERVICES
ENRICHMENT INDEXING RETRIEVAL & RANKING
Inhomogeneities Algorithms for
reduction and better search
metadata results
enrichment
BROWSING & CHARACTERISATION COMMUNITY
Improved GUI & Supporting
semantic browsing management of
of multimedia user generated
content content
DIGITAL PRESERVATION HACKATHON
Risk evaluation & Encouraging coders
planning for long-term to make use of
access & usability of ASSETS API
contents
5. THE PORTAL
Design Improvement
Presentation of Search Results & Preview
Playing Multimedia Content
User Interfaces for the ASSETS Services
6. Best practices for content provision
A report
dedicated to
the cultural
Heritage
community for
further
comments and
updates
(on request)
7. Benefits for the CVCE
Use of the CVCE content for testing the development of new functionalities for
Europeana (e.g. searching images by similarity, automatic summarisation of videos).
Concrete and challenging experience in the management of a European project
(WP lead and participation in the board of the project).
Good connexion with the Europeana Office and Europeana Network (Co-leading of
the UGC task force, invitation to participate to some experts meetings)
Reputation of the CVCE within the partners of the consortium and representatives
of European Commission (organisation of the final event in Luxembourg).
8. Results for the CVCE
Good overview and know-how about ASSETS and Europeana services (API),
opportunity to reuse them in the next future.
Enhanced know-how about the way a European project works (participation to the
negotiation of the meeting, participation to the meetings of the board, administrative
and contractual work (e.g. NDA), follow-up of an amendment of the DoW,
management of issues, organization of workshops, plenary meeting and dissemination
event…
Contribution to the external funding.
9. Thanks for your kind attention
Find also more about ASSETS by testing some of our services on
Europeana , Europeana Thoughlab or by watching them in this video.
A video of ASSETS final event is available here.
10. Thanks for your kind attention
Find also more about ASSETS by testing some of our services on
Europeana , Europeana Thoughlab or by watching them in this video.
A video of ASSETS final event is available here.
Editor's Notes
Good afternoon, Ghislain Sillaume, European project coordinator of the CVCE CVCE is an interdisciplinary research and documentation centre working on the European integration process. Active in SSH (contemporary history, European law, political science and economics) and ICT calls (Digital humanities).
Fact sheet of the ASSETS project 2 years -> Alignment with Europeana needs Engineering -> Big IT Italian software company Main objectives of the project: Advanced services –> e.g. Search images by similarity, ranking algorithm Enriched metadata -> e.g. Automatic classification Multimedia document -> e.g. Audio-visual material (1/2 To)
Engineering – ensuring the general coordination of the project Austrian Institute of Technology - ensuring the coordination of the technical work CVCE – ensuring the coordination of the provision of content, metadata and more (e.g. logs, training sets) Europeana office as a central actor of the project both contributing and providing feedback on advancement.
4 services are in operation at the Europeana portal: query log analysis, metadata-based ranking, query suggestion and image similarity search The project also organise a Hackathon just before the final review: reusing ASSETS services and external tools like the JEX Eurovoc indexer for automatic classification of documents.
The project did work on a replicated version of the Europeana portal where he did implement, test and evaluate all the services of the project. All the source code of the project is available online using traditional development tools (version control, bug tracking…).
Main deliverable for the CVCE (excepting provided content and metadata) is a report that compiles the experience of the ten content providers of the project.
The Europeana Network is an open forum for experts across Europe that works together and share their experience: pro.europeana.eu Sample of the end-user research group who thinks about sharing web analytics to have a better understanding of users behaviours and needs.
Europeana could be an instrument for enriching metadata and getting them back in your system. NDA: need to get a document signed by the 24 partners.
A European project is above all a human adventure and a team of people from different countries and fields working together as a united group.