1) The document summarizes the status and achievements of the EuropeanaConnect project after the first year.
2) Key achievements include adding over 41,000 audio items from 16 countries to Europeana, building the Europeana Audio Aggregation Platform, and making progress on the Semantic Layer and enabling multilingual access.
3) Challenges for the next phase include addressing intellectual property issues, encouraging more audio archive participation, and contributing to the Europeana Data Model and related specifications.
The Europeana Newspapers Project aims to aggregate over 18 million digitized newspaper pages from European newspaper collections onto the Europeana platform. The 17-partner consortium will refine newspaper collections, develop best practices for metadata and digitization workflows, and build a content browser for searching newspaper full texts. The project seeks to make Europeana the largest provider of pan-European newspaper collections and improve access to digitized newspapers for researchers, students, and citizens.
Enhancing user access to european digital heritageEuropeanaConnect
EuropeanaConnect is a project co-funded by the European Commission to build the technical infrastructure for Europeana and enhance user access to digital cultural heritage collections. It involves 30 partners from 14 countries and will add new audio content, build semantic capabilities, and develop multilingual and mobile access channels for Europeana. The project aims to better understand user needs through personas, surveys and testing and involve users in contributing annotations and comments.
- Europeana is a digital library system that provides access to cultural heritage collections across Europe through APIs and a portal.
- The Europeana Semantic Elements model is currently used but the Europeana Data Model is being developed to better preserve original metadata while enabling interoperability.
- The Europeana Data Model presentation described the EDM, which is based on standards like OAI ORE, Dublin Core, and SKOS to organize object metadata from different providers in a semantic web framework. It allows distinction between objects and records while supporting complex objects and vocabularies.
LIBER is a network of over 425 European research libraries from over 40 countries. It focuses on activities like scholarly communication, digitization, heritage collections, and participating in EU projects. Some examples of EU projects LIBER participates in include Europeana Libraries, which provides open access to 5 million digitized objects. The Europeana Newspapers Project aims to aggregate and refine over 18 million digitized newspaper pages for Europeana and The European Library through activities like optical character recognition and named entity recognition. The project involves 17 partners from 12 countries and seeks to improve access to digitized newspaper collections through Europeana.
Europeana and the Mediterranean Region by Dov Winer
Presentation at the GID Parmenides Conference
Towards a Mediterranean Science Area
Mediterranean Wealth and Diversity: Biology and Culture
at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria 21-24 June 2010
This document discusses LIBER's portfolio of EU projects and their impact. It describes several projects LIBER has led or participated in, including Europeana Travel, ODE, APARSEN, Europeana Libraries, and MedOANet. These projects focused on areas like digitizing content, data exchange, digital preservation, and open access. The document evaluates the projects based on criteria like innovation, alignment with LIBER's strategy, collaboration, impact, and cost effectiveness. It indicates the projects generally scored well across these criteria.
Olaf Janssen on the collaboration between European national libraries during ...Olaf Janssen
In this presentation Olaf Janssen - project & account manager at The European Library - talks about 18 years of cooperation between the national libraries of Europe.
He introduces national libraries in a European context and presents the history and benefits of their collaboration.
He outlines the development of The European Library (TEL) from the Gabriel project and the TELproject, and discusses how the TEL-ME-MOR project contributes to the growth of TEL.
I held this talk as an invited speaker during the NLB Conference "Celebrating Knowledge, The Power and Potential" on 15-11-2005, Singapore
LoCloud EVA / Minerva Workshop 2015
Workshop organised by LoCloud as part of XIIth Annual International Conference for Professionals in Cultural Heritage,
Presentation by Holly Wright, Archaeology Data Service, United Kingdom
Jerusalem, Israel
8 November 2015
The Europeana Newspapers Project aims to aggregate over 18 million digitized newspaper pages from European newspaper collections onto the Europeana platform. The 17-partner consortium will refine newspaper collections, develop best practices for metadata and digitization workflows, and build a content browser for searching newspaper full texts. The project seeks to make Europeana the largest provider of pan-European newspaper collections and improve access to digitized newspapers for researchers, students, and citizens.
Enhancing user access to european digital heritageEuropeanaConnect
EuropeanaConnect is a project co-funded by the European Commission to build the technical infrastructure for Europeana and enhance user access to digital cultural heritage collections. It involves 30 partners from 14 countries and will add new audio content, build semantic capabilities, and develop multilingual and mobile access channels for Europeana. The project aims to better understand user needs through personas, surveys and testing and involve users in contributing annotations and comments.
- Europeana is a digital library system that provides access to cultural heritage collections across Europe through APIs and a portal.
- The Europeana Semantic Elements model is currently used but the Europeana Data Model is being developed to better preserve original metadata while enabling interoperability.
- The Europeana Data Model presentation described the EDM, which is based on standards like OAI ORE, Dublin Core, and SKOS to organize object metadata from different providers in a semantic web framework. It allows distinction between objects and records while supporting complex objects and vocabularies.
LIBER is a network of over 425 European research libraries from over 40 countries. It focuses on activities like scholarly communication, digitization, heritage collections, and participating in EU projects. Some examples of EU projects LIBER participates in include Europeana Libraries, which provides open access to 5 million digitized objects. The Europeana Newspapers Project aims to aggregate and refine over 18 million digitized newspaper pages for Europeana and The European Library through activities like optical character recognition and named entity recognition. The project involves 17 partners from 12 countries and seeks to improve access to digitized newspaper collections through Europeana.
Europeana and the Mediterranean Region by Dov Winer
Presentation at the GID Parmenides Conference
Towards a Mediterranean Science Area
Mediterranean Wealth and Diversity: Biology and Culture
at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria 21-24 June 2010
This document discusses LIBER's portfolio of EU projects and their impact. It describes several projects LIBER has led or participated in, including Europeana Travel, ODE, APARSEN, Europeana Libraries, and MedOANet. These projects focused on areas like digitizing content, data exchange, digital preservation, and open access. The document evaluates the projects based on criteria like innovation, alignment with LIBER's strategy, collaboration, impact, and cost effectiveness. It indicates the projects generally scored well across these criteria.
Olaf Janssen on the collaboration between European national libraries during ...Olaf Janssen
In this presentation Olaf Janssen - project & account manager at The European Library - talks about 18 years of cooperation between the national libraries of Europe.
He introduces national libraries in a European context and presents the history and benefits of their collaboration.
He outlines the development of The European Library (TEL) from the Gabriel project and the TELproject, and discusses how the TEL-ME-MOR project contributes to the growth of TEL.
I held this talk as an invited speaker during the NLB Conference "Celebrating Knowledge, The Power and Potential" on 15-11-2005, Singapore
LoCloud EVA / Minerva Workshop 2015
Workshop organised by LoCloud as part of XIIth Annual International Conference for Professionals in Cultural Heritage,
Presentation by Holly Wright, Archaeology Data Service, United Kingdom
Jerusalem, Israel
8 November 2015
The document discusses the Local Content in the Europeana Cloud (LoCloud) project. The key points are:
1) LoCloud is an EU-funded project that aims to add over 4 million digital resources from small cultural institutions to Europeana.
2) The project provides support and technical solutions to make it easier for small/medium institutions to contribute quality content to Europeana and increase local heritage available.
3) LoCloud develops cloud-based services for metadata enrichment and hosting digital collections. It works with partners across Europe to aggregate and provide local institutional content to Europeana.
- The EuropeanaLocal project aims to make digital cultural heritage content from local and regional European institutions accessible through Europeana.
- It focuses on helping smaller institutions overcome interoperability issues and make their metadata harvestable according to Europeana standards.
- Through EuropeanaLocal, millions of additional items from local and regional partners across Europe have been added to Europeana, significantly expanding its scope and cultural coverage.
LIBER, Europeana and the Europeana Newspapers ProjectLIBER Europe
LIBER is a network of over 425 European research libraries from over 40 countries. The Europeana Newspapers Project aims to aggregate over 18 million digitized newspaper pages from European libraries for Europeana. It will refine the content using OCR, article segmentation, and entity recognition. The project will analyze existing newspaper collections, make recommendations for best practices, and build a content browser to improve access to newspaper full texts in Europeana and The European Library.
TheEuropeanLibrary.org - a (non technical) case study. Olaf Janssen lecturing...Olaf Janssen
The document summarizes the development of TheEuropeanLibrary.org, a portal that provides access to the collections of European national libraries. It discusses the precursor project Gabriel, and the TEL Project feasibility study from 2001-2004 that led to the launch of TheEuropeanLibrary.org in 2005. The portal launched with collections from 9 national libraries and has expanded since. The vision is for it to eventually provide access to all materials across European national libraries.
Presentation given by Walter Koch and Gerda Koch AIT- Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungs-GmbH, Graz, Austria
LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
Europeana Libraries: the value of a library domain aggregatorLIBER Europe
1) The document discusses Europeana Libraries, a 2-year project adding over 5 million digital objects from 19 research and university libraries to Europeana.
2) The project aims to bring digital content from European libraries to researchers by developing an efficient and sustainable framework for a library domain aggregation service.
3) Benefits of the library aggregation include increased efficiency, effectiveness, visibility and credibility for participating libraries through collaboration and a common portal for researchers.
The LoCloud lightweight digital library and alternative content sources, Adam...locloud
The document discusses user stories and requirements for a proposed lightweight digital library system called LoCloud L3D. It provides examples of how smaller libraries and archives could use such a system to digitize and share their collections without specialized IT expertise. Key requirements identified include easy creation of metadata, support for multiple content types, customizable interfaces, and the ability to migrate from other digital library systems. Open issues discussed include prioritizing content types and features.
“Virtual Communities in Europe: the cultural mix and how the European Library...bridgingworlds2008
This document discusses The European Library and its approach to marketing and serving virtual communities. It focuses on academics and researchers but also works with Europeana to reach a wider audience. Key points are that The European Library tailors its portal to academic needs and processes, provides multilingual access, engages in social media, and partners with Europeana to maximize its reach across Europe.
This document discusses integrating 3D architectural and archaeological models into Europeana, an online portal that provides access to Europe's cultural heritage. It provides background on Europeana, describing how it was created to aggregate digital cultural heritage objects from across Europe using common metadata standards. The document outlines the evolution of Europeana's data models from ESE to the more robust EDM to better integrate disparate sources. It argues that providing 3D models to Europeana ensures international visibility and preservation of digital cultural heritage assets. The 3D-ICONS project aims to contribute a significant number of 3D models of important European architectural and archaeological sites to Europeana.
This presentation was provided by Annette Bailey of The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), during the NISO event, "Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities," held October 8 - 9, 2009.
3D content in Europeana: the challenges of providing accessCARARE
1) Europeana is a digital platform containing over 50 million cultural heritage items from European institutions. It includes some 3D content.
2) Providing access to 3D content online has been challenging due to large file sizes and a lack of standard formats and viewers. However, technologies like Sketchfab now allow users to interact with 3D models within Europeana.
3) For 3D content to be truly accessible and reusable, standards for formats, metadata, and interoperability need to be improved so users have a consistent experience across platforms.
Olaf Janssen on benefits of collaboration between Europeana and archives duri...Olaf Janssen
In this presentation Olaf Janssen - project manager at Europeana - introduces Europeana to the archival community.
He outlines the mutual benefits of collaboration between European archives and Europeana
Olaf held this talk during the APEnet General Assembly on 12-10-2009 in Lund, Sweden
The document discusses LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) and EU projects that LIBER is involved in. It describes how LIBER represents over 420 research libraries across Europe and formulates strategies around issues like e-science, data sharing, and digital preservation. It provides examples of several specific EU-funded projects that LIBER is coordinating or participating in, including APARSEN, Europeana Libraries, Europeana Travel, and MedOANet, which focus on topics like digital preservation, open access, and data aggregation and dissemination.
This document summarizes a workshop on aggregation for Europeana. It defines aggregation as assembling documents to form a new document or collection. For Europeana, an aggregator collects metadata from content providers and transmits it, helping providers conform to standards. Aggregators also support providers with administration and training. The document discusses options for aggregation, the roles of aggregators, and technical requirements around interoperability and preparing data for Europeana.
This document summarizes a presentation on using digital audio archives to promote performance studies. It discusses two projects - the Baudelaire Song Project and Visualising Voice. The Baudelaire Song Project analyzes French art songs set to the poetry of Baudelaire over four years with AHRC funding. Visualising Voice uses a Europeana Research Award to create a public-facing web interface for digital audio analysis. Both projects use open-access digital archives but face challenges regarding language barriers, audio quality, copyright and data storage.
Europeana & IIIF - what we have been doing with IIIF and whyDavid Haskiya
Slides supporting my presentation at the IIIF Outreach event at the Rijksmuseum, October 18 2016. The presentation covered why we at Europeana have chose to join the IIIF community and adopt the protocol in our own stack. It includes examples of what we have developed and also what we have in the development pipeline.
Open source and access management: the Swansea experience and the wider pote...Eduserv
Swansea University uses a combination of open source and proprietary software for its library management and access systems. This includes Ex Libris software alongside open source discovery tools like VuFind and Xerxes. OpenAthens is used for authentication and single sign-on across systems. There is potential for more collaboration in Wales using open source consortial library management and discovery solutions as organizations merge and seek shared services.
Naple presentation danish digital libraryJakobheide
The Danish Digital Library project aims to create a joint digital solution for all Danish municipal libraries and other library sectors. It will provide a consolidated infrastructure for the presentation and access to digital materials. The solution is based on an evaluation of the existing Ting project, which uses an open source, modular and service-oriented architecture. Implementation will be coordinated between the Ministry of Culture and local governments, with the goal of covering 80-90% of the Danish population within three years through voluntary municipal membership. Related initiatives include a national library system tender and expanding e-book services.
This document summarizes the agenda and goals for the EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting taking place from May 10-12, 2010 in Berlin. The meeting will include plenary sessions to update staff on achievements and demonstrations of project results. There will also be parallel sessions for specific work packages and inter-WP meetings. Key achievements in the first year of the project include adding over 40,000 audio items to Europeana from 16 countries, developing prototypes for a semantic layer, multilingual access, and new access channels like mobile and spatial interfaces. Challenges addressed include synchronizing with Europeana requirements and addressing licensing and IPR issues for audio content.
- Europeana Connect will provide key technical components and services to Europeana, including a semantic layer, multilingual access, new access channels, and audio content aggregation.
- It aims to address current limitations in Europeana like lack of semantic search, multilingual search, mobile access, and adequate licensing frameworks.
- The project involves 30 partners from 14 countries who will work on 8 work packages over 2.5 years with a budget of 5.6 million Euros.
The document discusses the Local Content in the Europeana Cloud (LoCloud) project. The key points are:
1) LoCloud is an EU-funded project that aims to add over 4 million digital resources from small cultural institutions to Europeana.
2) The project provides support and technical solutions to make it easier for small/medium institutions to contribute quality content to Europeana and increase local heritage available.
3) LoCloud develops cloud-based services for metadata enrichment and hosting digital collections. It works with partners across Europe to aggregate and provide local institutional content to Europeana.
- The EuropeanaLocal project aims to make digital cultural heritage content from local and regional European institutions accessible through Europeana.
- It focuses on helping smaller institutions overcome interoperability issues and make their metadata harvestable according to Europeana standards.
- Through EuropeanaLocal, millions of additional items from local and regional partners across Europe have been added to Europeana, significantly expanding its scope and cultural coverage.
LIBER, Europeana and the Europeana Newspapers ProjectLIBER Europe
LIBER is a network of over 425 European research libraries from over 40 countries. The Europeana Newspapers Project aims to aggregate over 18 million digitized newspaper pages from European libraries for Europeana. It will refine the content using OCR, article segmentation, and entity recognition. The project will analyze existing newspaper collections, make recommendations for best practices, and build a content browser to improve access to newspaper full texts in Europeana and The European Library.
TheEuropeanLibrary.org - a (non technical) case study. Olaf Janssen lecturing...Olaf Janssen
The document summarizes the development of TheEuropeanLibrary.org, a portal that provides access to the collections of European national libraries. It discusses the precursor project Gabriel, and the TEL Project feasibility study from 2001-2004 that led to the launch of TheEuropeanLibrary.org in 2005. The portal launched with collections from 9 national libraries and has expanded since. The vision is for it to eventually provide access to all materials across European national libraries.
Presentation given by Walter Koch and Gerda Koch AIT- Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungs-GmbH, Graz, Austria
LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
Europeana Libraries: the value of a library domain aggregatorLIBER Europe
1) The document discusses Europeana Libraries, a 2-year project adding over 5 million digital objects from 19 research and university libraries to Europeana.
2) The project aims to bring digital content from European libraries to researchers by developing an efficient and sustainable framework for a library domain aggregation service.
3) Benefits of the library aggregation include increased efficiency, effectiveness, visibility and credibility for participating libraries through collaboration and a common portal for researchers.
The LoCloud lightweight digital library and alternative content sources, Adam...locloud
The document discusses user stories and requirements for a proposed lightweight digital library system called LoCloud L3D. It provides examples of how smaller libraries and archives could use such a system to digitize and share their collections without specialized IT expertise. Key requirements identified include easy creation of metadata, support for multiple content types, customizable interfaces, and the ability to migrate from other digital library systems. Open issues discussed include prioritizing content types and features.
“Virtual Communities in Europe: the cultural mix and how the European Library...bridgingworlds2008
This document discusses The European Library and its approach to marketing and serving virtual communities. It focuses on academics and researchers but also works with Europeana to reach a wider audience. Key points are that The European Library tailors its portal to academic needs and processes, provides multilingual access, engages in social media, and partners with Europeana to maximize its reach across Europe.
This document discusses integrating 3D architectural and archaeological models into Europeana, an online portal that provides access to Europe's cultural heritage. It provides background on Europeana, describing how it was created to aggregate digital cultural heritage objects from across Europe using common metadata standards. The document outlines the evolution of Europeana's data models from ESE to the more robust EDM to better integrate disparate sources. It argues that providing 3D models to Europeana ensures international visibility and preservation of digital cultural heritage assets. The 3D-ICONS project aims to contribute a significant number of 3D models of important European architectural and archaeological sites to Europeana.
This presentation was provided by Annette Bailey of The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), during the NISO event, "Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities," held October 8 - 9, 2009.
3D content in Europeana: the challenges of providing accessCARARE
1) Europeana is a digital platform containing over 50 million cultural heritage items from European institutions. It includes some 3D content.
2) Providing access to 3D content online has been challenging due to large file sizes and a lack of standard formats and viewers. However, technologies like Sketchfab now allow users to interact with 3D models within Europeana.
3) For 3D content to be truly accessible and reusable, standards for formats, metadata, and interoperability need to be improved so users have a consistent experience across platforms.
Olaf Janssen on benefits of collaboration between Europeana and archives duri...Olaf Janssen
In this presentation Olaf Janssen - project manager at Europeana - introduces Europeana to the archival community.
He outlines the mutual benefits of collaboration between European archives and Europeana
Olaf held this talk during the APEnet General Assembly on 12-10-2009 in Lund, Sweden
The document discusses LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) and EU projects that LIBER is involved in. It describes how LIBER represents over 420 research libraries across Europe and formulates strategies around issues like e-science, data sharing, and digital preservation. It provides examples of several specific EU-funded projects that LIBER is coordinating or participating in, including APARSEN, Europeana Libraries, Europeana Travel, and MedOANet, which focus on topics like digital preservation, open access, and data aggregation and dissemination.
This document summarizes a workshop on aggregation for Europeana. It defines aggregation as assembling documents to form a new document or collection. For Europeana, an aggregator collects metadata from content providers and transmits it, helping providers conform to standards. Aggregators also support providers with administration and training. The document discusses options for aggregation, the roles of aggregators, and technical requirements around interoperability and preparing data for Europeana.
This document summarizes a presentation on using digital audio archives to promote performance studies. It discusses two projects - the Baudelaire Song Project and Visualising Voice. The Baudelaire Song Project analyzes French art songs set to the poetry of Baudelaire over four years with AHRC funding. Visualising Voice uses a Europeana Research Award to create a public-facing web interface for digital audio analysis. Both projects use open-access digital archives but face challenges regarding language barriers, audio quality, copyright and data storage.
Europeana & IIIF - what we have been doing with IIIF and whyDavid Haskiya
Slides supporting my presentation at the IIIF Outreach event at the Rijksmuseum, October 18 2016. The presentation covered why we at Europeana have chose to join the IIIF community and adopt the protocol in our own stack. It includes examples of what we have developed and also what we have in the development pipeline.
Open source and access management: the Swansea experience and the wider pote...Eduserv
Swansea University uses a combination of open source and proprietary software for its library management and access systems. This includes Ex Libris software alongside open source discovery tools like VuFind and Xerxes. OpenAthens is used for authentication and single sign-on across systems. There is potential for more collaboration in Wales using open source consortial library management and discovery solutions as organizations merge and seek shared services.
Naple presentation danish digital libraryJakobheide
The Danish Digital Library project aims to create a joint digital solution for all Danish municipal libraries and other library sectors. It will provide a consolidated infrastructure for the presentation and access to digital materials. The solution is based on an evaluation of the existing Ting project, which uses an open source, modular and service-oriented architecture. Implementation will be coordinated between the Ministry of Culture and local governments, with the goal of covering 80-90% of the Danish population within three years through voluntary municipal membership. Related initiatives include a national library system tender and expanding e-book services.
This document summarizes the agenda and goals for the EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting taking place from May 10-12, 2010 in Berlin. The meeting will include plenary sessions to update staff on achievements and demonstrations of project results. There will also be parallel sessions for specific work packages and inter-WP meetings. Key achievements in the first year of the project include adding over 40,000 audio items to Europeana from 16 countries, developing prototypes for a semantic layer, multilingual access, and new access channels like mobile and spatial interfaces. Challenges addressed include synchronizing with Europeana requirements and addressing licensing and IPR issues for audio content.
- Europeana Connect will provide key technical components and services to Europeana, including a semantic layer, multilingual access, new access channels, and audio content aggregation.
- It aims to address current limitations in Europeana like lack of semantic search, multilingual search, mobile access, and adequate licensing frameworks.
- The project involves 30 partners from 14 countries who will work on 8 work packages over 2.5 years with a budget of 5.6 million Euros.
Rio Info 2009 - Europeana - Bram van der WerfRio Info
The document provides an overview of Europeana, a digital platform that aims to aggregate Europe's digital cultural heritage. It discusses Europeana's vision and context, the current prototype, and plans for the first operational version in 2010. This will include over 10 million digitized objects from libraries, archives, museums and audiovisual collections across Europe. The document also outlines Europeana's open source development approach and various related projects that will contribute content.
EuropeanaConnect - Enhancing User Access to European Digital HeritageMax Kaiser
The document summarizes the EuropeanaConnect project, which aims to enhance access to European digital cultural heritage through Europeana. It will add audio content, develop multilingual capabilities, build semantic representations of data, create mobile and social media access channels, and develop backend infrastructure to support these functions over its 2.5 year duration. The project involves 30 partners from 14 countries and has a budget of €5.6 million, 80% of which is funded by the European Commission.
The document discusses the Local Content in the Europeana Cloud (LoCloud) project. The key points are:
1) LoCloud is an EU-funded project that aims to add over 4 million digital resources from small cultural institutions to Europeana.
2) The project provides support and technical solutions to make it easier for small/medium institutions to contribute quality content to Europeana and increase local heritage available.
3) LoCloud develops cloud-based services for metadata enrichment and hosting digital collections. It works with partners across Europe to aggregate their content and make it available through Europeana.
EuropeanaLocal is an EC-funded project that aims to mobilize and assist local and regional cultural institutions in Europe to make their digital content interoperable and accessible through Europeana. The project works with over 50 partners across Europe, including national libraries and museums as well as local authorities and organizations. EuropeanaLocal partners have contributed nearly 3.5 million items to Europeana so far. The project also aims to promote standards and infrastructure like ESE and EDM, provide training, and test Europeana's tools and services.
The document provides an overview and updates on Europeana and related projects. It discusses changes to the Europeana backend including improvements to the API, ingestion processes, and repository. It also outlines plans to improve search functionality on Europeana including refine search, alternative suggestions, social tagging integration, and visual browsing options. Upcoming projects and priorities for Europeana are mentioned including a focus on improving the end user experience, ensuring sustainability, and developing strong collection and partner programs.
The Europeana Community: Semantics and Cultural Heritage DataNuno Freire
This document discusses Europeana, a digital platform that provides access to over 54 million items from European cultural heritage institutions. It summarizes Europeana's data model and entity collection, which aims to semantically link cultural heritage objects. The document also outlines Europeana's linked data strategy and use of semantic annotations. It proposes future work using semantic services from e-Infrastructures to support annotations, data curation, and discovery of cultural heritage datasets.
Introducing Europeana Inside (KE User Group)Nicholas Poole
The document discusses Europeana, a digital platform and network for cultural heritage institutions in Europe. It provides key facts about Europeana, including that it has over 23 million records from 1700 partners across 33 countries. It also describes several Europeana projects that are digitizing collections and helping increase awareness of Europeana. The speaker encourages cultural institutions to get involved with Europeana to increase the exposure and reuse of their online collections.
The document discusses Europeana, a digital platform and aggregator for cultural heritage collections across Europe. It provides key facts about Europeana, including that it has over 23 million records from 1700 partners across 33 countries. It also outlines several Europeana projects that are digitizing collections and helping increase awareness of Europeana. The speaker encourages organizations to get involved with Europeana to help maximize the exposure and reuse of their online collections.
Innovation for Europeana - Europeana v2.0 WP7Max Kaiser
Max Kaiser presented on innovation work being done for Europeana. The goals are to develop an R&D community, encourage innovation from the Europeana Network, build consensus on technical solutions, attract technical development capacity, and gather ideas. Specific tasks include developing a FLOSS inventory, innovative applications for user interaction and user-generated content, work on semantic web/linked data, and multilingual access/translation. Achievements so far include the initial FLOSS inventory, market studies on semantic extraction and multilingual analysis, and next steps were outlined for each task area.
Europeana Inside is an EU-funded project that aims to increase the amount and diversity of content contributed to Europeana by cultural institutions. It involves 28 participants across 12 European nations. The project will develop open-source connection kits to simplify the process of contributing content by automating workflows and allowing institutions to better manage rights and permissions. It seeks to address legal, technical and financial barriers to participation through these tools and by integrating them into collection management systems. The goal is to add 960,000 new records to Europeana from a variety of European cultural organizations over the project's 30 month duration.
The Europeana group: integrating the projects Project overviewsEuropeana
The document provides information on several European Union funded projects related to aggregating cultural heritage content and making it available through Europeana. It summarizes various projects including their objectives, budgets, dates, and key deliverables. The projects aim to improve access to content from different cultural domains like biodiversity, libraries, archives, audiovisual media and film.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Mariana Damova on using semantic technologies and Europeana data. It discusses how Europeana data has been converted to RDF and loaded into the OWLIM semantic graph database. This allows linking Europeana data to other datasets to enable queries across multiple sources. Examples of queries over Europeana and other cultural heritage data are provided. Future work on projects like Europeana Creative is also mentioned.
Promoting Austrian Cultural and Scientific Heritage via EUROPEANAEuropeanaConnect
Mag. Gerda Koch, AIT Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
14th International Congress Cultural Heritage and New Technologies Vienna, 17 November 2009
Alastair Dunning introduces the Europeana Cloud project which will change the way that data is sent to Europeana, and will give researchers new tools to enrich and use that data.
This document summarizes the agenda for the Europeana Network Association AGM 2015 conference. The conference includes discussions on bylaws, elections, finances, business plans, task force updates, and presentations on topics like the shared digital economy and Europeana innovations. Presentations will take place over two days with keynotes, ignite talks, and panels. Attendees are encouraged to make Europeana and its cultural heritage collections visible and secure its long-term sustainability.
This document summarizes Max Kaiser's presentation at #CultJam15 about digitization efforts in Europe and opportunities for creative reuse of digitized cultural works. It discusses Europeana Creative's goals of encouraging commercial and social value from remixing and repurposing public domain works. Statistics are presented on the economic impact and job creation of cultural industries in Europe. Attendees are invited to submit creative reuse ideas to the VanGoYourself session and explore resources on Europeana Labs.
Creative Re-Use of Cultural Heritage: Europeana CreativeMax Kaiser
This document summarizes the Europeana Creative project, which aimed to promote reuse of cultural heritage content through various initiatives. It describes the project goals of providing a critical mass of reusable digital content and infrastructure like Europeana Labs. It outlines the project details including partners, budget, and timeline. It also summarizes the key activities of developing a content reuse framework, running pilots in different themes, and hosting challenge events to incubate viable projects between cultural institutions and creative industries.
The Austrian National Library's 'Vision 2025'Max Kaiser
The document discusses the Vision 2025 of the Austrian National Library. It outlines goals such as digitizing the majority of the library's collections, improving access to knowledge through new interfaces and linked data, supporting new forms of research through digital services, and enriching cultural and social life through user participation and digital content. The library aims to preserve cultural heritage and make it accessible worldwide to enable creativity, innovation and education. Major projects underway include digitizing newspapers, photographs, books and other collections and making them searchable online.
Creative Re-Use of Cultural Heritage: Europeana CreativeMax Kaiser
The document discusses the Europeana Creative project, which aims to increase reuse of cultural heritage content available through Europeana. It provides details on the project structure and goals of key work packages focused on developing Europeana Labs as a space for content reuse, technical infrastructure to support reuse, business models, pilots of reuse applications, and challenges to incubate new projects. Examples of pilots and challenges are described for history education, natural history education, social networks, tourism, and design. Lessons learned emphasize the need for high quality, reusable content and engaging with communities.
Austrian National Library - Current initiatives, projects and the library’s V...Max Kaiser
Max Kaiser presents the current initiatives, projects, and Vision 2025 of the Austrian National Library. The library has a long history dating back to the 14th century and holds one of the world's most significant collections. Its vision is for everyone in the world to have unrestricted access to its digitized collections by 2025 in order to enable creativity, knowledge sharing, and innovation. It aims to collect and preserve knowledge, make access to information simple, support research, and enrich cultural and social life.
Autrian Books Online - The Public Private Partnership of the Austrian Nationa...Max Kaiser
The document discusses the public-private partnership between the Austrian National Library and Google to digitize the library's historical book collection from the 16th to 19th centuries. It details the project's goals to digitize 600,000 volumes containing over 200 million pages. The partnership divides responsibilities between the organizations, with Google handling scanning and optical character recognition, while the library provides metadata and ensures quality control. The digitized collection, called Austrian Books Online, aims to make the historical texts freely available online and support new forms of digital scholarship and research.
Austrian National Library Vision 2025 and Austrian Books OnlineMax Kaiser
The document discusses the Austrian National Library's Vision 2025 initiative and Austrian Books Online project. It outlines goals of making knowledge more accessible and available digitally, preserving cultural heritage, and supporting research and education. The Austrian Books Online project aims to digitize the library's entire historical book collection from the 16th-19th centuries, which involves preparing, scanning and processing around 200,000 volumes. As of late 2013, around 185,000 volumes had been digitized through the large-scale public-private partnership project.
The Europeana Creative project aims to promote the reuse of digitized cultural heritage content. It will develop the Europeana Labs platform and technical infrastructure to provide open access to content. The project will run pilot programs in five themes - history education, natural history education, social networks, and tourism. It will hold challenge events to identify and support viable business ideas in these areas. The 30 month project involves 26 partners from 14 countries and has a budget of over 5 million euros funded by the EU.
This document discusses the relationship between the Europeana Creative and Europeana Cloud projects. Both projects aim to increase reuse of cultural heritage resources by defining requirements and building a Europeana Content Reuse Framework. They will work together to specify the framework infrastructure and allow content providers to make content available for reuse under specified conditions. Key partners like Europeana Foundation and Kennisland are involved in both projects to ensure alignment of efforts.
The document introduces the Europeana Creative project, which aims to increase the reuse of cultural heritage resources by creative industries. It will do this by (1) establishing an Open Laboratory Network for experimentation, (2) developing a Content Reuse Framework to allow providers to specify reuse terms, and (3) implementing infrastructure to support creative reuse. The project will also create 5 pilot applications, run open innovation challenges, identify business models, and promote engagement between industries and institutions. The goal is to demonstrate how Europeana can facilitate large-scale reuse of cultural content.
1) EuropeanaTech is a community that focuses on technical topics related to Europeana like developing the Europeana Data Model and fostering software development.
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3) Current task forces are working on hierarchical objects, applying the FRBRoo model to EDM, and persistent identifiers. These aim to improve Europeana and make cultural data more interoperable.
Austrian Books Online. The Austrian National Library's Large-Scale Digitisati...Max Kaiser
This document summarizes Max Kaiser's presentation on the Austrian National Library's digitization partnership with Google. Some key points:
1. The partnership involves digitizing 600,000 volumes from the library's historical book holdings from the 16th to late 19th century.
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3. Kaiser discusses some of the challenges involved, such as the extensive logistics and preparation needed to process the large number of books while ensuring their preservation.
The Austrian National Library and EuropeanaMax Kaiser
The document summarizes the Austrian National Library's involvement with Europeana. It discusses the library's significant collections, departments, and digitization projects. It outlines the library's role in aggregating content for Europeana, facilitating knowledge sharing among cultural heritage institutions, making collections available through Europeana's application programming interfaces and linked open data, and engaging users with cultural heritage. The library aims to provide open access to public domain works and support research and development around digital heritage.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
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LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
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analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
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to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
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accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
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providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
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4. Introduction
• This is a quite big meeting….
• This is the end of successful
project year…
• Project established as largest
single Europeana technology provider
• Goals of the All-Staff Meeting:
• Get up-to-date about the different strands of work
• Open the “work silos” and profit from synergies
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Meeting structure
• Plenary sessions
• Update on achievements
in all work packages
• Demonstrations of project results
• Updates on Europeana and sync
with Europeana developments
• Administrative issues
• Dissemination and project marketing
• Parallel sessions
• All-Developers meetings
• Work packages meetings
• Inter-WP meetings for synchronisation
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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A unusual project …
• EuropeanaConnect is a unusual European project:
• We don't only have to deliver according to our Description of Work
• But also according to the release planning and requirements of
Europeana
• In the end: we will be measured for our success in delivering sustainable
products for Europeana
• This is what will remain from the project (hopefully…)
• In contrast to many other projects, most EuropeanaConnect deliverables
are not prototypes but should be production-ready components
• Requires a very different project culture and a different approach to
planning!
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Complexity and synchronisation
• Main challenge in year 1:
• Synchronise the project with the requirements and planning of Europeana
• Europeana Techical Requirements:
• Use cases
• Coding requirements
• Development environment
• Release schedule
• Europeana Business and Policy Requirements:
• Branding and marketing
• Data Provider Agreements (Licensing Framework)
• User Generated Content Policy (Annotations)
• User Testing
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Key Objectives of EuropeanaConnect
1. Provide a critical mass of audio content to Europeana and
implement an audio-enabling infrastructure
2. Build the Semantic Layer for Europeana
3. Facilitate multilingual access to Europeana
4. Develop novel access channels to Europeana (like mobile access)
5. Provide tools and methodologies for user-driven development and
for testing and evaluation
6. Build value-added services (like e-Books-on-Demand)
7. Implement key infrastructure components (like OAI-PMH infrastructure)
8. Build the Europeana Licensing Framework
9. Enable stronger and wider collaborative networking
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
13. Achievements in Year 1
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New audio content for Europeana
• EuropeanaConnect will add the music dimension to
Europeana
• WP6, lead by RBB
• Five audio archives are consortium members
• Continuous approach to involvement of new audio archives for the
entire duration of the project
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Main strands of work / Highlights | 1
• Europeana Audio Aggregation Platform (AAP)
• Based on already existing DISMARC portal and infrastructure
• Used for harvesting, analysing and storing audio metadata
• Mapping adjusted, improved connectivity and more storage space on server
(used by audio content providers)
• New audio integrated by upload and by links into the AAP
• Data provision for Europeana using OAI-PMH
• How to start?
• Audio Starter Kit on EuropeanaConnect Website
http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-and-resources.php
• Describes process of providing audio content to Europeana
via the AAP
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Main strands of work / Highlights | 2
• Already 41.000 items aggregated from 100 collections in 16 countries
• Most items already available via Europeana
• Estimated 150.000 – 200.000 music tracks by project end
• Continuous dissemination, Newsletters, personal contacts etc.
• Targeting at and in contact with more than 300 potential partners
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Challenges / Next Steps
Challenges:
• Uncertainty about IPR issues underlying most communications
• Approached by delivering necessary information
• Audio archives extremely hesitant towards joint operations
• Answered by various activities
• Only now Europeana Data Provider Agreement available
Next steps:
• Workshop in September
• Active newsletter publishing
• Handbook for content owners under preparation
• Work with the provider agreement
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Build the Europeana Semantic Layer
• WP1, lead by HUB
• Organise Europeana data space as network of interlinked resources for
object discovery and further use
• Prerequisite for integration of and with other semantically aware WWW
services
• Build a repository of harvested semantic resources
• Vocabularies, classification schemes …
• Convert data into semantic representations
• Semantic processing will mostly use SKOS
• Semantically enrich Europeana content by mapping it to these semantic
representations
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Main strands of work / Highlights
• Survey of controlled and structured vocabularies among
Europeana data providers
• Successful migration of selected vocabularies to SKOS
• Specification of semantics functionality
• Checking with selected expert users
• Substantial contribution to the Europeana Data Model (EDM)
• Specification and stabilisation of the EDM
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Challenges and next steps
Challenges:
• Triggering the EDM development
• Getting commitment for an EDM-based planning
Next steps:
• Contribute to Europeana v1.0, making the EDM and related
functionality part of the 'Danube' specifications
• Continue work on data migration and (semi-)automated
object contextualisation
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Multilingual Access to Europeana
• WP2, lead by HUB
• Provide multilingual access capabilities for Europeana
• Users should be able to find relevant content even if its not described in their
native / preferred language
• Build Europeana Repository of Language Resources
• Tools for multilingual mapping of controlled vocabularies
• Suite of translation services for querying and browsing
• Supported set of languages:
• Start with English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish
• Expand with Dutch, Hungarian, Portuguese, Swedish
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Main strands of work / Highlights
• Report on User Preferences and Information Retrieval
Scenarios for Multilingual Access in Europeana
• Specification and development of the Europeana Language
Resources Repository
• Currently in review
• Multilingual mapping of controlled vocabularies
• Languages and vocabularies for selection
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Challenges / Next steps
Challenges:
• Data gathering
• Licensing issues
• Criteria for construction of repository
• Evaluation of language resources
Next steps:
• Populating the Europeana Language Resource Repository
• Selection of vocabularies in different languages for mapping
• Query Translation Module
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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User Orientation – Why, How?
• Why:
• We want Europeana to be used widely by people
• We are not necessarily identical with these ”people”
• How:
• Log file analysis
• Personas
• Surveys
• User Tests
• Part of WP3, lead by KB-DK
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Log File Analysis
• Task 3.1, UCLC
• Log File Analysis for Europeana to
evaluate the use of the services
• How do users really navigate and
search in Europeana?
• Method: Deep log analysis
• First log file analysis report fed into
version 1
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Personas / User Testing
• Task 3.2, KB-DK
• Development of Europeana Personas
• Archetypical representations of our users
• Workshop on Personas
• Personas Catalogue completed
• 7 personas and relating scenarios defined
• Should guide development process
• User Testing of Europeana services with different user communities
• Registry of Test Users
• First draft of Usability Guidelines
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Spatio-temporal User Interface
• Task 3.3, UGOE
• Make use of time-related and geographical metadata of the
Europeana Semantic Layer
• Provide a new visual access channel for Europeana
• Combination of spatial and temporal metadata for visualisation
• Interactive and generic map of geo-related tagged events, places
and characters in Europe – combined with timeline
• Prototype of spatio-temporal interface and search available
• Pure JavaScript based approach on the client side
• Different possible back-ends for maps
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Prototype of the Spatio-temporal User Interface
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Mobile Access Channel to Europeana
• Task 3.4, OFFIS
• Generic Mobile Client, adapting to the user„s mobile device
• 2 main requirements:
• Adaptation of the mobile Europeana portal
to the capabilities of the user's mobile device
• Location-based searching
• Allow users to search for works inside Europeana
around their current position
• Integration with Europeana
• Basic mobile interface for Rhine Release
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Annotation Service
• Task 5.6, ARC-AIT
• Allows users to make their own contribution to Europeana content
• Annotation of multimedia resources
• Comments, discussion, linking
• Add value to existing content
• Enhance Europeana searchability through user-provided metadata
• Annotation Tool Suite fully integrated with the Europeana Portal
• Acceptance tests have been executed, currently under review
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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eBooks-on-Demand
• Task 5.7, UIBK
• Integration of eBooks on Demand (EOD) Service into Europeana
• Existing digitisation-on-demand service
• http://www.books2ebooks.eu/
• Allow for an automatic and generic transfer
of Books from EOD to Europeana
Status:
• EOD harvesting and metadata aggregation infrastructure implemented
• EOD workflow software adapted to include workflow for metadata
submission and Print-on-Demand
• 1st prototype of the EOD connector will be implemented by July
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Europeana OAI-PMH Management Infrastructure (REPOX)
Part of WP5, managed by ARC-AIT
• Task 5.3, IST
• REPOX: Service for metadata harvesting from a large number of OAI
data providers
• Management of OAI data providers of administration of harvested
metadata records
• First REPOX prototype available
• Functionally complete version in June
• Aligned with Europeana technology specifications in October
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Metadata and Service Registries
• Europeana Metadata Registry
• Task 5.1, IST
• Registration and management of metadata terms and schemas created by
various communities in multiple contexts
• Specification and Design document in review
• Europeana Service Registry
• Task 5.2, KB
• Will manage service descriptions of Web Services and support integration of
external services into Europeana
• Final prototype and documentation delivered
• Server integration for both Europeana and The European Library
will be implemented by end of May
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Europeana Persistent Identifier Resolution Service
(ERDS)
• Task 5.4, DNB
• Meta-Service: forward Persistent Identifier resolution requests to
resolution services of national libraries and other identifier networks
• Two-day workshop on PIs on 17/18 February 2010 at DNB in Frankfurt
• Report available on EuropeanaConnect Website
• Alpha version of ERDS available
• Final version will be implemented by July
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Integration of Geographical Information Services
• Task 5.5, BNP
• Geoparser and Gazetteer: will enrich Europeana metadata and content
with explicit geographical metadata and references
• Protoypes and showcases of both tools available
• 2nd Protoypes will be implemented by July
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Europeana Licensing Framework
• WP4, BNL
• EuropeanaConnect is building the Europeana Licensing
Framework
• Goals:
• Create and validate the Data Provider and Aggregator Agreements
which govern the Europeana Rhine release
• Create the draft Europeana Licensing Framework and validate it
• Build, test and validate tools for implementation of the Framework
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Main strands of work / Highlights
• Data Provider and Data Aggregator Agreements
• Collecting requirements, several consultation rounds and final validation for
Rhine Release
• Final versions released in late April
• Europeana Public Domain Charter
• Controversial topic, as tightly linked to funding of digitisation programs
• Endorsed by Europeana Foundation and European Commission
• Positive reactions
• Public Domain Helper tools
• Defining decision trees to translate the law into a tool to decide if a work is in
the public domain
• Available in Beta Version
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010
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Challenges / Next steps
• Multi stakeholder nature of rights issues made progress in
legal questions slow and complex
• Next steps:
• Collecting feedback on agreements from commercial partners and
those beyond the immediate cultural heritage sector
• Planning the Danube legal framework
Status EuropeanaConnect
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010