1. local content in a Europeana cloud Alternative methods of ingestion for small institutions (Stein) Runar Bergheim Asplan Viak Internet as LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

2. Overview of Presentation Characteristics of Europeana content providers Present ingestion methods for Europeana Alternative ingestion methods “out there” Experiments that may be conducted as part of LoCloud 7 slides 284 words 1 858 characters 2 illustrations (A seemingly endless stream of words)

3. Characteristics of Europeana content providers Those who are «in» Professional cultural heritage institutions Capacity for investment in infrastructure & projects Technical skills beyond what may be expected Entities that fit into a hierarchy of aggregators Patient Those who are «out» Very small collections – Collections by individuals – (tens to hundreds of objects) Independent institutions with strained funding «Non-conforming» online content structure – 1 web page  1 object

4. Present Europeana ingestion process

5. Puts great demands on content providers – Partly mitigated by the excellent MINT-MORE tools Limited capacity at harvesting end – Partly mitigated by aggregator hierarchy Low frequency of updates – each iteration takes a long time – Partly mitigated by modified content/aggregation architecture of Europeana Cloud Weaknesses of present Europeana ingestion process

6. Alternative ingestion methods «out there»

7. Difficult to create complete ESE/EDM from crawling – But... the typical Europeana record is not really all that «complete» – Schema.org. Microformats and other embedded semantics may help Deep-content URLs hidden for crawlers – Simple «site-map» protocol may be applied Increases capacity for small content providers Decreases time-consumption of the content ingestion life-cycle Will serve more than one publishing channel Considerations for alternative ingestion methods

8. Content assessment – Assess quantity of «new» content that can be reached using alternative ingestion methods Technology experiments – HTML embedded semantics based on open standards – Creating a test-spider for auto-extraction of metadata from web pages – Transformation of data to ESE/EDM Design of processes – Embedding of spider into aggregator organizations business processes – Ingestion + Quality assurance Experiments that may be conducted as part of LoCloud

9. Thank you for the attention rb@avinet.no

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