Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library (with input from Antoine Isaac, Valentine Charles, Maarten Brinkerink, Johan Oomen,

Stefan Gradmann, Marlies Olensky, Juliane Stiller)

Europeana Network Annual General MeetingBerlin, 26–27 November 2012

Europeana v2.0 WP 7 & EuropeanaTech

Research & Development in Europeana Context

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Product Development

R&D Results

R&D Results

Europeana R&D Agenda 2012

Foster a network of specialists from GLAM and research institutions, who can advice on technological topics when needed

Develop R&D agenda for Europeana: identify trends & gaps, who is working on them, how we can support them

Feed R&D results from the scientific / open source community into the development of Europeana

Inform IT-related networks (e.g. LOD or Digital Libraries communities) on Europeana-related R&D Disseminate our partners’ technological advances

Improve and incrementally update EDM

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Supporting project: Europeana v2.0 WP7

Network Building• Develop R&D Community• Encourage thought & practical innovation• Build consensus• Attract capacity for technical development

Research & Development• Innovative applications for User Interaction and UGC• Semantic Web / Linked Data• Multilingual Access / Translation

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Supporting Network: EuropeanaTech

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DevelopersCurrently:• EDM and FRBRoo• Hierarchies• Persistent Identifiers

Focus 2012:• FLOSS inventory

Focus 2013:• Software development

EuropeanaTech Community

From MS37 Mission Statement:"The mission of the EuropeanaTech community is to gather task forces on

specific technical points (metadata display issues, extensions to the Europeana Data Model, etc) and foster a Europeana Software Developers Network”

Task Forces

Europeana Tech

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http://pro.europeana.eu/web/ network/europeana-tech/

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Main Outputs 2012

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Output 1: Inventory of FLOSS in the Cultural Heritage Domain

Already 80+ entries!

Already 80+ entries!

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FLOSS Inventory 80+ entries, 28 contributors

32 entries affiliated to Europeana

50%+ still relevant in current technological landscape

Major release since January 2011 or later

30+ entries sufficiently documented for reuse Focus: metadata management & access provision Gap: user interaction & user generated content

Contribute!Edit rights: mbrinkerink@beeldengeluid.nl

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_7rVJwt0CpdFRJOEJxdEk4ZEMxQ01jaDgxQXFSTkE#gid=0

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Next Steps

Work on two applications in the area of User Interaction and User Generated Content:

• Generic Platform for Image Tagging Games• Generic Platform for Video Tagging Games

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Output 2: Market study on semantic feature extraction

Tools for the extraction of concepts and named entities

Basis for decision-making for Europeana

Available on EuropeanaTech Wiki as living document

http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/-/wiki/Main/Market+study+on+technical+options+for+semantic+feature+extraction

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Output 3: Work on multilingual issues

State-of-the-art analysis of >50 cultural heritage websites• Multilingual display, retrieval and interactions are not commonly

implemented in cultural heritage websites

Analysis of Europeana• Multilingual semantic enrichment

• Ingestion of multilingual metadata

• Multilingual retrieval

Work on multilingual enrichment of provider data and on collaborative features to improve translations

Development of user interaction models

EuropeanaTech Task Forces

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Focus: EuropeanaTech Task Forces

Model refinements on EDM• Task force on Hierarchical Objects• Task force on EDM-FRBRoo Application Profile

Task force on Persistent Identifiers

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Task force on Hierarchical Objects: Motivation

Important topic for Europeana Network

Implementation of solutions delayed • Required functionalities not available in the flat ESE model

EDM: new possibilities to represent such complex data

Real need for examples showing best practices

Task force launched in June 2012 at the Europeana Plenary

Wiki: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/- /wiki/Main/Taskforce+on+hierarchical+objects

Final deliverable: January 2013

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Task Force Hierarchical Objects: Different domains representedChair: Valentine Charles, Europeana Foundation

Members:

Allison Kupietzky, The Israel Museum

Antoine Isaac, Europeana Foundation

Dan Matei, CIMEC

Donald Weber and Alessia Bardi, HOPE project

Kerstin Arnold, Bundesarchiv, APEx project

Maria Luisa Martinez Conde, Ministry of Culture Spain

Michael Fingerhut, Bibliomus.org

Stefanie Ruehle, Göttingen State and University Library

Robina Clayphan, Europeana Foundation

Rodolphe Bailly, Cité de la Musique

Xavier Agenjo, Fundación Ignacio Larramendi

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Main activities | 1

Identify different cases where hierarchies are involved

Eight case studies collected from different domains:• Hierarchical description of objects from libraries

• Hierarchical representation of event-related documents

• Hierarchical objects in audiovisual archives

• Hierarchical objects in the context of the Hope project

• Hierarchies for archeological objects

• Europeana 1914–1918

• The Montiano family archive

• Israeli artist biographies

Inventory of display solutions

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Main activities | 2 Providing best practices for mapping to EDM

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What happened in the meeting yesterday…

Discussion of first draft of the final report

Analysis of different case studies• Hierarchical representation of event-related documents

• Hierarchical objects in audiovisual archives

• Hierarchical description of objects from libraries

• Hierarchies for archaeological objects

Discussion of keys issues• Question of granularity: what to include in hierarchies?

• Modelling of hierarchies in contextual resources?

• How to sequence parts in hierarchies?

• How to represent missing parts?

Task force will run for two more months

First draft version of report in December 2012

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Task Force EDM FRBRoo (EFAP TF)

Intention: analyse how to map existing data formats into an EDM model extended by FRBRoo

Kick-off July 16, 2012

Wiki: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/- /wiki/Main/Task+Force+EDM+FRBRoo

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EFAP Task Force: Goals

Start from mapping provided by CIDOC

Deliverable:• Combined model of properties and classes including sample data

• Modeling principles and mapping rules

Results will be of use for everyone who wants to model derivative relations in EDM

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EFAP Task Force: Members

Trond Aalberg

Kerstin Arnold

Rodolphe Bailly

Detlev Balzer

Robina Clayphan

Karen Coyle

Gordon Dunsire

Michael Fingerhut

Steffen Hennicke

Antoine Isaac

Patrick LeBoeuf

Maja Žumer

Kai Eckert

Justyna Walkowska

Vladimir Alexiev

Marlies Olensky

Chairs: Martin Doerr and Stefan Gradmann

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EFAP Task Force: Current status

3 virtual meetings: documented in the Wiki

Selection of mapping examples• Don Quixote

• Hamlet

• Musical example

• Example from a Swiss Poster collection

Smaller groups work on the examples “offline”

Last virtual meeting (Nov 15): share and discuss first mapping exercises – available on the Wiki: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/- /wiki/Main/Prep+Call+Nov+15

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Status after meeting yesterday

Decisions: • Distinguish modelling for integration, querying & representation

• Use FRBR distinction “expression” vs. “work” only if needed

• Produce clear rules for use of this distinction

Use FRBRoo specialisations to optimise mappings where needed• Identify minimal set of FRBRoo extensions which are required to

represent the level of detail found in the data

Derive mapping rules from these example mappings• until Christmas 2012

• input for virtual meeting on January 9, 2013

Finish by February (deliverable)

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Persistent Identifiers Task Force

Goal: investigate if Europeana should play a role in the implementation of PIDs for its Data Providers beyond promoting their use

Examining what that role could be

Chair: Jan Molendijk (Europeana Foundation)

12 Task Force Members

Physical meeting in June at the Europeana Plenary

Process so far: • Question paper sent out

• Discussions followed on list• Reference to current practices returned (e.g. HOPE)

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PI Task Force: Next Steps

Jan Molendijk will combine input into draft position paper

Will be sent to list(s) for comments, then finalized by End January 2013

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EuropeanaTech and the three main Europeana Priorities for 2013

1. Europeana is an Ecosystem2. Europeana is a Core Service Platform3. The Value of Opening Up

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1. Europeana is an Ecosystem

Shared vision: improve access to our shared cultural heritage

Europeana Network as a shared, distributed eco-system: more than the sum of its parts

EuropeanaTech Community: essential component of the ecosystem

Contributions by EuropeanaTech Network in 2013:• Contribute to Commons thinking• Improve sense of mutuality between Europeana Foundation and

Network – Example: EuropeanaTech Task Forces

• Improve Knowledge Sharing – Example: FLOSS Inventory, Europeana Professional

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2. Europeana is a Core Service Platform

Europeana is a catalyst for innovation for the Cultural Heritage Sector & the Creative Industries

Focus on provision of tools & infrastructure for others to build services

Contributions by EuropeanaTech Network in 2013:• Contribute to Open Culture Lab / Living Labs network

( Europeana Creative)

• Connect to conferences / events in tech sector• Contribute to interoperability: EDM and LOD work

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3. The Value of Opening Up

How can we best demonstrate the value of opening up?

Contributions by EuropeanaTech Network in 2013• Contributions to LOD• Contribute to applications for UGC• Work on user interaction models

How can you contribute?

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How to contribute?

Several levels: organization, advice, code, data… Mailing list, Twitter… React to our deliverables Contribute prototypes & demos in ThoughtLab /

Open Culture Lab Contribute documented EDM metadata and

mappings for next steps of EDM Participate in our upcoming meetings!

How about a joint technical meeting in 2013?

Thank you!Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library

max.kaiser@onb.ac.at www.onb.ac.at

www.linkedin.com/in/maxkaiser twitter.com/maxkaiser

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