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Juozas MarkauskasHead of digitisation department, Dizi Heritage, Lithuania

ATHENA/EuropeanaLocal Workshop21 February, 2011Rome

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• Lithuanian partner and EuropeanaLocalL l t• Local partners

• Workflows and tools• Workflows and tools• Our content at Europeanap• Other important activities

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Digitization and consulting services for memory institutions

Main activities in EuropeanaLocalMain activities in EuropeanaLocalDIZI is not content aggregator. gg gOur responsibilities:

• Ensure content contribution from local partners p• Provide necessary training, tools and software for content management and description.  g p

• Migrate, check and normalize partners’ metadata

Local partners

Biržai region museumBiržai region museum“Sėla”

Photographsand negativesand negatives

Lithuanian Theatre, Musicand Cinema Museum

Posters

E‐catalogues (3)

Kaunas County PublicLibrary

Workflows• Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum:

Metadata creation Data

Digital files in folder system

Metadata creationenrichment and normalization

(ESE)DiziHIVE

Data

checking

DiziHIVE

Content Checker

OAI‐PMH 2.0 Data Provider

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• Biržai region museum “Sėla”

Digital files in folder system.

Metadata in

Metadata enrichment and norm.

(ESE)

Data

checking

DiziHIVE

OAI‐PMH 2.0 Data Provider

phpoai2MS Access

(ESE)DiziHIVE Content Checker

„DiziHIVE“ Collection Management Tool

• Tool for small collectionmanagement (up to 10.000 items)

• Web‐based solution: php, ajax, mysql, flash.

• Installation on localhost or at hosting provider server.• DCMI, ESE, OAI‐PMH compatible.

i f i i d f di i l fil d• Main functions: import, export and management of digital files and metadata; linking of metadata and digital images.

„DiziHIVE“ tool in useI. Aggregation of digitized content II. Image files are linked with 

metadata Metadata areIII. Data are ready for harvesting

metadata. Metadata are normalized and enriched

Metadata and files database

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files database

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DiziHIVE Tool Via PHPOAI2

„DiziHIVE“: data import

List of images ready to import

Metadata fields

ready to import

Image preview

„DiziHIVE“: metadata enrichment

Preview of digital image and metadataLinks with 

other relatedother related  items stored in 

database

Lithuanian cultural heritage promotedgEuropeana Newsletter item about Lithuania’s Heritage, September 2010 issue    

http://www group europeana eu/web/guest/newsletter/http://www.group.europeana.eu/web/guest/newsletter/

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Collections on Europeana

• Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum: EuropeanaMusic  and Cinema Museum:

Posters from Vilnius Theatre, h19th century. 2000 records

Collections on Europeana• Biržai museum “Sėla”

Photographs , postcards and negatives 19th to 20th century.

Europeana

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• EuropeanaLocal + CARARELithuanian National meeting• EuropeanaLocal + CARARE• 10 November 2010, Vilnius University Library

Lithuanian National meeting

• 49 participants

• 13 i tit ti t d• 13 institutions represented• 11 papers presented

EuropeanaLocal end user testingp gEvent 1. 12 January 2011, 

Šiauliai Povilas Višinskis Public Library, Šiauliai. 12 participants. 

E 2 19 J 2011Event 2. 19 January 2011, DIZI heritage office, Vilnius. 6 participants. 

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Th k !Thank you!yJuozas Markauskas, juozas@dizi.ltJuozas Markauskas,  juozas@dizi.lt