Presentation for NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Meeting http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/

1. Antoine Isaac
NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Meeting
Baltimore, April 16, 2013

2. Europeana.eu, Europe’s cultural heritage portal
Audiovisual
collections
National
Aggregators
Regional
Aggregators
Archives
Thematic
collections
Libraries
26M objects from 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries

4. What types of objects does Europeana gives access to?
Text Image Video Sound 3D

5. From a flat interoperability format
Mandatory:
dc:title or dc:description
One of dc:coverage, dc:subject, dc:type
dcterms:spatial
europeana:type with value of TEXT, IMAGE,
VIDEO, SOUND or 3D
dc:language for objects with edm:type value
of TEXT.
europeana:rights with controlled values
(Public Domain, CC-BY, etc)
europeana:isShownAt or
europeana:isShownBy
europeana:dataProvider
europeana:provider
Others:
dc:contributor, dc:creator, dc:date, dc:format,
dc:identifier, dc:language, dc:publisher,
dc:relation, dc:source, dcterms:alternative,
dcterms:extent, dcterms:temporal,
dcterms:medium, dcterms:created,
dcterms:provenance, dcterms:issued,
dcterms:conformsTo, dcterms:hasFormat,
dcterms:isFormatOf, dcterms:hasVersion,
dcterms:isVersionOf, dcterms:hasPart,
dcterms:isPartOf, dcterms:isReferencedBy,
dcterms:references, dcterms:isReplacedBy,
dcterms:replaces dcterms:isRequiredBy,
dcterms:requires dcterms:tableOfContents
europeana:object

6. To a more complex data model - EDM
Properties for skos:Concept http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/4378
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
skos:PrefLabel xml:lang="en" Buccin
Properties for skos:Concept http://www.mimo-db.eu/HornbostelAndSachs/356
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
skos:PrefLabel xml:lang="en" 423.22 Labrosones with slides
Properties for edm:Place http://sws.geonames.org/3017382/
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
skos:PrefLabel xml:lang="en" France
http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation

7. Better accomodate domain practices
Museums , e.g. ATHENA aggregator
CRM – LIDO
Archives – e.g. APEnet
EAD
Libraries – e.g. The European Library
MARC
Workshops were organized with experts during EDM design
Running « data watch » effort with partner projects, task forces

8. Keep in touch with friends
Re-use of existing standards
Coordinate model development with other projects
Domain-specific projects (CARARE – archaeology)
Similar initiatives to Europeana (DPLA)
Having a data model that is in principle flexible and re-uses a lot
of stuff helps

9. Easy vs. hard requirements for EDM
1. Distinguish the real object from its digital representation
2. Distinguish the object from its metadata record
3. Allow multiple records for same object
containing potentially contradictory statements about an object
1. Support for objects that are composed of other objects
2. Be compatible with different levels of description
Generic/interoperable vs. specific/domain-centered
1. Flexible support for describing contextual resources, including concepts
2. Re-use and extend elements from existing standards
Main obstacle is maybe lack of agreed practice

10. Challenge #1: getting good data, still!
Providers contributing richer and interoperable data in EDM
Enrichment
Europeana and third-parties?
Validation (open world) and quality measures
Versioning and persistence of living Europeana data

11. Challenge #2: interoperability, still!
Data in
• Mapping EDM to what Europeana providers want or can use
• Sharing patterns
Data out
• Identifying data consumer needs
• Different channels with their own flavors / levels of complexity
E.g. Schema.org

12. Challenge #3: opening data, still!
The Europeana network is doing very good
 A licensing framework for metadata and content
 Pushing openness across the board
There will always be interesting corner-cases
 Some institutions regard metadata as content
 User-generated data (annotations) could raise issues

13. Challenge #4: measuring value
An old friend, too

14. Many challenges are old foes, in fact
Cf. W3C Library Linked Data report
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld/

15. Thank you