Andreas Juffinger

14 June, 2012, Washington DC

Europeana ResearchOpening Up Europeana for Research

Background

KB

TEL

DNB

BN

F

> 200 million records> 25 million full text> 10 million digital objects

From 48 National Libraries, 25 Research Libraries, OA Repositories.

Non TEL material in Europeana.eu:

> 20 million digital objects from other Libraries, Archives, Museums, and AV Archives.

Distribute

Europeana APIEuropeana Research

APIs and Services for Developers

APIs for Researcher

• Requirements– Metadata– Provenance– Reproducibility (Versioning)

• Synchronous Services• Asynchronous Services• Preservation Services

APIs for Researcher

• Synchronous Services– OpenSearch JSON API– LOD/SparQL Service for all Metadata– Embed with Research Infrastructures• DARIAH, CLARIN, EHRI

• Asynchronous Services– Preparation of large datasets– Datasets based on Metadata + Content

APIs for Researcher

– Preservation Services

Researcher

APIs for Researcher

• Provenance and Trust• Transparent Metadata Manipulations• Repeatability and Reproducibility

• Attribution to Content Provider and Researcher

APIs for Researcher

• Usage Statistics and Query Logs• Fine granular search and click through

information (implicit relevance feedback)

Engage

Curated Collections

Curated Collections

Fulltext Services

• Some of the digitized material from National Libraries have been made available in TELPlus Project (25 mill pages)

• Europeana Libraries project adds texts from Google digitized Research Libraries and other digitization projects.

• Europeana Newspapers will add about 17 mill pages of historical newspapers

Europeana Newspapers Consortium

NLF

SBB ONB

NLP

BnF

NLE

SUB HH

USAL

NLL

KB

LIBER

CCS

NLT

UB

UIBK

LFT

BL

Crowd Sourced Content

Virtual Collections

Personal Bookshelf/Reading-lists

Conclusion

• The European Library and Europeana is opening up its metadata corpora

• 1st Sep. 2012 all data of Europeana available under CC0

• The European Union Catalogue will also be released in Summer 2012 to the research community

Andreas Juffinger

andreas.juffinger@kb.nl

Thank you