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EuropeanaLocal the role of local and regional digital cultural content in the Europeana service

EuropeanaLocal the role of local and regional digital cultural content in the Europeana service. IACH workshop, ECDL Aarhus, 19 September 2008 Rob Davies, MDR Project Manager. A structure for Europeana?. Museum A Archive A Library A. Library X. National Digital Library.

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EuropeanaLocal the role of local and regional digital cultural content in the Europeana service

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  1. EuropeanaLocal the role of local and regional digital cultural content in the Europeana service IACH workshop, ECDL Aarhus, 19 September 2008 Rob Davies, MDR Project Manager

  2. A structure for Europeana? Museum A Archive A Library A Library X National Digital Library Film Archive 1 Film Archive 2 Film Archive 3 Archive X ACE EuropeanaL Museum X Film Archive X TEL Eurbica National Archive 1 NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 National Archive 2 MICHAEL National Archive 3

  3. Europeana.Net (2007-9) • Thematic Network • Establish trust between the institutions • Create the organisational structure for a European Digital Library (Europeana) • Tackle domain interoperability issues (standards) • Propose a practical implementation of the European Digital Library • Item or object level • Make recommendations for future research

  4. EuropeanaLocal (2008-11) • Best Practice Network • Digital content sourced by regional/local libraries, museums, archives • Local content infrastructure for harvesting and indexing metadata • OAI-PMH repositories • Europe wide network of repositories/ aggregations • map existing metadata to Europeana Metadata Application Profile • local vocabularies ‘SKOSified’ • Establish easy processes for making content/metadata available • to Europeana and other services (tourism, education, family history, research

  5. Basic facts • Duration 36 months • Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded) • 1031+ Person-months in total • 32 Partners • 39 Deliverables

  6. EuropeanaLocal: key objectives • Improve interoperability of digital content held by regional and local museums, libraries and archives • Improve availability for access and use • estimated 20 million items identified initially by EuropeanaLocal partners alone • prove the value of local/regionally sourced content • promote digitisation of local/regional content • Help develop Europe wide network of regional repositories/ aggregations • (e.g. with national or regional digital libraries or cultural portals) • Integrated Europeana prototype service including EuropeanaLocal content

  7. Important local content types • Items and collections of high cultural value (‘treasures’) held at local or regional level • Specific local collections held by libraries, museums and archives, local audio-visual archives • Images high in the mix • Public domain ‘cultural’ records held by archives etc.

  8. EuropeanaLocal partners: types of organisation • EDLFoundation • 1 Ministry of Culture • 2 national libraries (as aggregators of local content) • 2 national museums • 3 national cultural agencies • 5 regional cultural authorities • 7 public libraries • 1 local museum • 1 research foundation • 1 regional digital library provider • 7 private sector organisations

  9. Contributing content – not straightforward i2010 TEL-ME-MOR Michael Standards Legacy databases Ministries of Culture TEL Minerva Collections TELplus Resources Europeana IPR EDLocal SKOS Metadata Committee of Regions XML/HTTP National initiatives Items Application profiles Regional Cps Local Cps National Cps Metadata harvesting Content Thematic networks EDLnet Mining OCR EDL Foundation Commission Authentication Meta noise Syndication/RSS/Atom Web 2.0 OWL OAI-PMH Fedora SemanticWeb Blogs Web Services Ontologies Business models Greenstone Google Future services AJAX Controlled vocabularies Tagging RDF Participation IPR DSpace WIKIs Geography Collabularies Payment Open Source Search engines XML/HTTP Deep content Folksonomies Multi-lingual services Taxonomies

  10. Content migration process steps

  11. Variable starting points • Advanced practice in implementing digital libraries, portals, OAI-PMH etc • France, Norway, Poland, Spain, UK • Limited progress • Bulgaria, Greece, Romania etc • Gamut from somewhat centralised to very regional/local • Phased approach

  12. Europeana content holders

  13. How to persuade local institutions to contribute?

  14. Main stages • Kick off meeting, London 26/7 June • Analyse content available, metadata and infrastructures in use • themes? • Europeana sets up parallel ‘test’ environment • index harvested EuropeanaLocal content • implement Europeana interface developments on content • Guidance on installing repositories • support for implementation where necessary • Fedora, DSpace, Greenstone, LMS etc • Import from existing databases to OAI-PMH repositories • automate metadata conversion • Transform vocabularies to improve semantics

  15. Main stages (2) • Regional training workshops and technical help/support • Local implementation planning • Move towards sensible levels of aggregation • low entrance barrier for new content suppliers to join • Promote low-cost digitisation • (e.g. Minerva guidelines) • Policy/dissemination work • National Meetings • website • Evaluation and progress monitoring • user perspective, national user groups, impact study

  16. Role of technical partners • Involvement with Europeana.net/Europeana v1.0 working groups • Establish effective support to local regional partners • Europe coverage split in two • training workshops • translate guidelines • individual partner implementation plans • help desk and ‘flying doctor’ • Establish a working tools ‘scenario’ • automated metadata conversion tools etc? • road testing and problem identification for Europeana tools

  17. Open Archive Initiative

  18. Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE) • Prototype launched to EC, Council of Ministers, 19/20 Nov • Metadata defined to match specific functionality of prototype • No Europeana application profile proposed yet • data used with existing schemas • TEL application profile, DC (simple, qualified), MODS,METS. EAD, proprietary • mapping and conversion done in-house at Europeana • Longer term scalabiity • will require decentralisation • automation of metadata conversion either at aggregator or central level • ’User tag’: public tags created by registered users

  19. Metadata enrichment Mainly manually entered but also process text to look for person names Difficult to get disambiguous temporal metadata but possible Similar technology as is applied by search engines, extracting keywords and assigning relevance according to frequency Coverage is specifiEuropeana in any number of ways such as geographical names, administrative entities and coordinates. Need geo-metadata

  20. Future steps • Europeana VI delivers first release early 2010 • Institutions/aggregators use ESE till then • Need to deal with ‘place’ and geographic metadata • Locally-implemented processes for metadata enrichment? • Monitor impact of complementary infrastructural standards • Object modelling - OAI/ORE • RSS/|ATOM • Semantic web • Social networks • Collections • Rights expression (C20 black hole) • Identifiers • Interest in object models (ORE) for Europeana V1 • Data may need to be reindexed by Europeana

  21. www.europeanalocal.eu rob.davies@mdrpartners com

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