1. MICHAEL Culture Association WP4 Integration of existing data structure into Europeana ATHENA, WP4 Working group technical meeting Konstanz, 7th of May 2009 eContentplus

2. - Overall objective & Goals - Roundtable - The survey - European projects - Agenda - Deliverable D4.1 - Tasks of the Working group OUTLINE

3. Develop and broaden the integration of all kinds of resources used by museums/other heritage domains Focus on terminologies, semantic and multilingual tools Work in close cooperation with WP3, WP5 and WP7 Work supporting integration of resources into Europeana Capitalize on the work done by the “Interoperability Expert group”(EC) on standards / other European projects OVERALL OBJECTIVE

4. Explore the current practices in the field of terminologies adopted by European museums Guarantee the semantic interoperability of these terminologies with Europeana  Use a cross-domain approach Identify the multilingual issues: survey and integration of existing multilingual tools  Focus on the current achievements for integration of resources : existing tools, existing multilingual thesauri Ensure alignment between museums terminologies –thesauri – Athena SKOS thesaurus  Recommendations and guidelines for mapping and “SKOSify” existing multilingual resources; input for the WP7 GOALS

5. Terminology and Multilingualism: What is the situation concerning mutilingualism and terminology resources at national level? What are the lacks or specific points you would like to focus on in the framework of this working group? Who can you appoint as an expert of the terminology group? Roundtable

6. 5 main phases: Organisation and survey Evaluation of existing resources Standards and SKOSification Recommendations/guidelines Support of the WP7 – Integration into Europeana ACTIONS

7. WP4 | The survey 7 main sections  Basic and contact Information for the terminology  Organisation's website (particularly any multilinguality)  Detailed information about the terminology  Use of the terminology  Multilinguality of the terminology  Availability of the terminology  Audience for the terminology

8. WP4 | The survey First Results: 26 forms filled in on line 11 countries 2 countries (Slovenia and Cyprus) don’t use terminology resources Mainly for the use of museums professionnals and museums users

9. WP4 | The survey

10. First Results: 50% of the terminology described are multilingual Domain specific expert : 80% Availability on the Web: 54,5% Free or minimal costs for obtaining the terminology : 80%

11. WP4 | The survey Information: Remarks, questions or comments : please send them to me marie-veronique.leroi@culture.gouv.fr Situation of your country Please provide the terminology or a sample of the terminology

12. WP4 | Contacts in Europe Europeana Thought Lab (University of Amsterdam) EuropeanaConnect (Kick-off in May 2009)

13. WP4 | Contacts in Europe MILE http://www.mileproject.eu Metadata Image Library Exploitation EC-funded project which aims to improve the use, accessibility and trade of digital images throughout Europe. Use of thesauri for multilingual access of digital images by translating the image metadata

14. WP4 | Contacts in Europe STERNA Semantic Web-based Thematic European Network application Best practice network in the area of digital libraries Semantic layer: demonstrate semantic capability using Semantic Web standards (RDF, SKOS)

15. WP4 | Contacts in Europe MULTIMATCH http://www.multimatch.org Cross-lingual and semantic seach engine Deliverable on the Semantic Web encoding

16. WP4 | Contacts in Europe CACAO http://www.cacaoproject.eu/ innovative approach for accessing, understanding and navigating multilingual textual content in digital libraries and library catalogues, enabling European users to better exploit the available European electronic content. 2 work packages (Multilingual access and multilingual resources

17. WP4 | Contacts in Europe The European Film Gateway http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/ The EFG project will develop a portal providing direct access to about 790,000 digital objects including films, photos, posters, drawings, sound material and text documents. Workpackage on the content enrichment and semantic interoperability

18. WP4 | Contacts in Europe GAMA http://www.gama-gateway.eu/ A central online portal to different European media art collections for the interested public, for curators, artists, academics, researchers, and mediators

19. WP4 | Contacts in Europe Open Access Publishing in European Networks http://www.oapen.org/ Project in Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences monographs.

20. WP4 | Contacts in Europe APENET http://www.apenet.eu Objective: to gather the existing digital archival content of Europe and make it available on-line. The aim is to build a network of European archives that can offer online access.

21. WP4 | Contacts in Europe Other projects? Crisscross, QVID....

22. WP4 – 3 deliverables: Identification of existing terminology resources in museums | July 2009 Guidelines for mapping into SKOS | July 2010 Recommendation for integrating Digital resources present in museums in Europeana | April 2011 Deliverables

23. I/ Introduction Objective and goals II/ Terminology Presentation Definition Draft Plan for the D4.1

24. III/ Inventory of the existing resources Presentation of the sources of information WP3 survey (presentation/results) EuropeanaLocal survey Minerva network European projects (Europeana, Europeana Group projects and other European projects) WP4 Survey Draft Plan for the D4.1

25. IV/ Terminology resources Survey Presentation Results V/ Conclusions Analysis and synthesis of the survey results Analysis and synthesis from the other sources of information Draft Plan for the D4.1

26. VI/ Annexes Terminology resources survey List of resources List of institutions Feedabck from each other European project Draft Plan for the D4.1

27. Next steps: Analysis and evaluation of existing terminology resources| May 2009 Identification of the needs in the field of the terminologies at national level and reflection on the national strategy regarding multilingualism | May 2009 Setting up of the terminology expert group | June 2009 Investigation and contacts with other European projects | June 2009 Agenda

28. Next steps: Participation (contribution/review) to the Deliverable D4.1 “Identification of existing terminology resources in museums ” | July 2009 Preparation for the Deliverable D4.2 “Guidelines for mapping into SKOS ” : investigation on SKOS | July 2009 Agenda

29. Comments? Remarks? Suggestions? Questions? Division of Work Discussion

30. TASKS Your contribution Comments and remarks on the drat plan of the deliverable | 20 May 2009 Define your participation to the deliverable D4.1 (contribution/review? which section?) | 20 May 2009

31. TASKS Your contribution Contact with other european project: – define the list of European projects to explore | 20/05 – each member of the WG is asked to investigate on one of the mentioned projects | 31/05 – contact and investigation on the activities led by this othe project for providing multilingual access | June 2009

32. Thank you for your cooperation