1.
Antoine Isaac

2. What are we?
Foundation, funded by European projects and European member states Hosted at Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag
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3. 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

4. What types of objects does Europeana gives access to?
Image 3D
Video
Sound
Text
Video
Les Miserables: Victor Hugo’s handwritten manuscripts:
BnF, public domain
Matisse ‘53 in the form of a double helix’ The Wellcome Library (CC-BY-NC-ND)
‘söprűtánc’ – Hungarian traditional dance
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Musicology, public domain
‘Neurologico reggae’ Music album
DISMARC – EuropeanaConnect Paid Access
‘Castle of Kavala’ 3D exploration of a Greek castle
Cultural and Educational Technology Institute - Research Centre Athen CARARE CC-BY-NC-ND

5. What Europeana makes available
Link to digital objects online
Metadata
Example used is:
Een vrouw met een kind in een kelderkamer by Pieter de Hooch, Rijksmuseum, public domain

6. 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

7. Building a "semantic layer” for objects

8. 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

9. VU has been helping w/ innovation - searching
query : “Dieppe”

10. Contextual Enrichment – Places12

11. Collections
Future work at Europeana collection- level description, which can be used to enhance and present search results.

12. Data quality

13. Rights Statements for content
Open
Not open – but clear
Not open

14. Antoine Isaac aisaac@few.vu.nl
Thank you
Antoine Isaac