A Europeana Vision

Antoine Isaac

The Web as LiteratureBritish Library, June 10, 2013

What is Europeana?

Europe’s digital cultural network

Museums

National Aggregators

Regional Aggregators

Archives

Thematic collections

Libraries

26M objects and 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries

What types of objects does Europeana gives access to?

Text Image Video Sound 3D

What Europeana makes available

Metadata

Link to digital objects online

How to access Europeana objects?

Enabling access to content in users’ workflow

Europeana.eu portal

Project portals and exhibitions

Search engines

Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest…)

Websites and apps using Europeana data independently

Europeana as infrastructure for re-use

Available via

API

Search widgets

Semantic mark-up (schema.org) on portal

Linked Open Data pilot

http://pro.europeana.eu/api

http://data.europeana.eu

http://agris.fao.org/openagris/

Linked & Open Data

Multiple providers, multiple aggregations

Functions of the new Europeana Data Model

1. Distinguish a cultural object (painting, book) from its digital representations

2. Distinguish the object from its metadata record

3. Multiple descriptions for a same object

4. Support for objects that are composed of other objects

5. Compatible with different levels of description

Generic/interoperable vs. specific/domain-centered

Object-centric and event-centric (CRM)

6. Describe other resources (concepts, persons, places…)

http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation/

A model for linking metadata

• Links between objects within or across Europeana collections

• Links to objects from external collections

• Links to contextual resources

• Resources described in Europeana or elsewhere

Providers’ thesauri, gazetteers, vs. Geonames, GEMET, DBpedia

• Links created by providers, Europeana, or third parties

Open metadata

CC

Positioning Europeana as a data hub

Benefits for providers, users and application developers

Higher profile data - meaningful links between resources, not isolated objects

Authority data - a trusted European reference set of cultural objects

Unified access - accessible from one place, using one data model

Open access

New Audience - more visibility for objects

New Tools - contextualized data for innovative, more sophisticated tools

How can Europeana support scholarly activities?

We’ve got a lot of supply

But we need to be more demand-driven

Content sourcing

Which providers & collections to focus on?

Interoperability

Which metadata profiles should Europeana align with?

How and where to publish data?

Data quality and curation

Which resources to link to?

Or maybe it would happen in related projects!

CENDARI, ResearchSpace

HuNi

Also gathering Also gathering contentcontent

• A centralized index of full-text resourcesOver 24 million pages of textual content, mostly from OCR

• Will be expanded by Europeana NewspapersMore than 18 million pageshttp://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/

Europeana Cloud

Researchers

In particular for researchers in humanities and social sciences

Content & Data

• Analyse how scholars work with data and perceive the value of the content in Europeana

• Build a platform extending the portal of The European Library

• Propose tools for scholars to interact with the contentdiscover, access and analyze data, annotate, transcribe

• Jointly with:• DARIAH - Network of arts and humanities researchers• CESSDA - Council of European Social Science Data Archives

Europeana Cloud goals

Beyond Infrastructure! Further Modeling the Scholarly DomainProf. Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Digital Humanities Seminar Leipzig, November 7

2012

Digitised Manuscripts toEuropeana (DM2E)

Provide content to Europeana with a focus on digitised manuscripts

Explore usage scenarios of EDM in a specialised platform for humanities research with specialised visualisation and reasoning

Represent in EDM the material worked on by researchers as well as the provenance of the annotations they produce.

http://dm2e.eu

Example: annotation

Pundit @ DM2E project

Or perhaps there won’t be as much happening?

#AllezCulture campaign

Defend EU’s sustainable funding for the Europeana network

http://pro.europeana.eu/protect-our-cef-funding

Thank you

Antoine Isaac - aisaac@few.vu.nl

with slides from the Europeana Office

Alastair Dunning, Nuno Freire (The European Library, Europeana Cloud)

Stefan Gradmann (DM2E)