http://semantic-media-web.de/innovationsforum/metadaten/ Antoine Isaac
What are we? Foundation, funded by European projects and European member states Hosted at Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag Picture: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koninklijke_Bibliotheek_%287985198003%29.jpg
Europeana.eu, Europe’s cultural heritage portal 30M objects from 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries Libraries National Aggregators Regional Aggregators Archives Museums Thematic collections 3
What types of objects does Europeana gives access to? Image 3D Video Sound Text Video Les Miserables: Victor Hugo’s handwritten manuscripts: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5372912AF66AB529E188218BC1F747E75EB1A18F.html BnF, public domain Matisse ‘53 in the form of a double helix’ http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200104/F8D60AB9136C8A59B59DF1CFEC278A6CABA8B0C6.html The Wellcome Library (CC-BY-NC-ND) ‘söprűtánc’ – Hungarian traditional dance http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08901/E1A7B01BE4AED87FD239672F4F3941F52262D6B2.html Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Musicology, public domain ‘Neurologico reggae’ Music album http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08901/ADC241BCBF8470988DBA6EEAFCF13F14D88E5534.html DISMARC – EuropeanaConnect Paid Access ‘Castle of Kavala’ 3D exploration of a Greek castle http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020703/05607B24D15BD516EE2B765F74CDA39C7427F7FB.html Cultural and Educational Technology Institute - Research Centre Athen CARARE CC-BY-NC-ND
What Europeana makes available Link to digital objects online Metadata Example used is: http://preview.europeana.eu/portal/record/90402/174D436CF5C61F8AA999090C98DA48B9C7024087.html Een vrouw met een kind in een kelderkamer by Pieter de Hooch, Rijksmuseum, public domain
Making metadata work for Europeana Building a search engine on top of metadata is difficult Traditional metadata quality problems: correctness, coverage Especially when data is so heterogeneous 100s of formats, multilingual data We have started with a simple flat metadata format
Building a "semantic layer” for objects
Re-use and linking Currently: GeoNames, GEMET… Data re-use can be serendipitous! From our domain (VIAF, UDC) or others (Eurovoc) Multilingual resources are key for us
VU has been helping w/ innovation - searching http://eculture.cs.vu.nl/europeana/ query : “Dieppe”
Contextual Enrichment – Places 12
Collections Future work at Europeana collection- level description, which can be used to enhance and present search results.
Data quality
Rights Statements for content Open Not open – but clear Not open
Antoine Isaac aisaac@few.vu.nl Thank you Antoine Isaac aisaac@few.vu.nl