Uploading Items to Europeana – the Inside

Story

EVA/Minerva, Nov. 2012

Mariane Aaron The process of uploading items to Europeana, through real-

life example of Eretz Israel Museum.

Overview (online) PrinciplesStatistics (very dynamic!)

No. of museums: 36 (sometimes cluster of museums)

No. of items: ~ 500,000No. of pictures: ~ 350,000

Archives

ICMS – Israeli CollectionsManagement System

+Europeana ICMSʰʮʠ

HocusPocus

From MANA to Europeana

1. Museum selects items to be published 2. Items are extracted to an Excel report,

within ICMS3. Files are parsed to suitable format for

import to Europeana4. Items are uploaded to Europeana using

Linked-Heritage Ingestion Tool 5. Items are searchable and viewable in

Europeana web site (not available yet)

Main Steps

Excel Report from ICMS

Input to Linked Heritage:Variable Fields Loaded from CSV

file

Input to Linked Heritage:Fixed Fields Set in Ingestion Tool

Import

Mapping

Transformation

Publication

Steps in Ingestion Tool

Transformation from EXCEL to XML

Proper display of Hebrew and European languages

Preset format (Measurements section for example)

Text cut

Problems Encountered

Multilingual Input

Statistics

Examples of Paul Goldman Collection

Example of a Multilingual Card