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EuropeanaLocal – its role in improving

access to Europe’s cultural heritage

through the European Digital Library

Mary Rowlatt

MDR Partners

119 September 2008 VLDL Workshop, ECDL, Aarhus

Context and rationale

One of a suite of projects building the European Digital

Library (Europeana)

Commission‟s vision:

“In the context of our i2020 Digital Libraries Initiative the EC

envisages the creation of a European Digital Library: a unique

resource to Europe‟s distributed cultural heritage, ensuring a common

access to millions of great paintings, historical writings, ancient

manuscripts, diaries of the famous and not so famous, personal

photos and important national documents from Europe‟s libraries,

archives and museums.”

Horst Forster, European Commission‟s Director of Digital Content and

Cognitive Systems

19 September 2008 2VLDL Workshop, ECDL, Aarhus

Pre-cursor projects

eContent/eContent+: TEL

TEL-ME-MOR (2005-2007)

EDL project (2006-2008)

TELplus (2007-2009)

Managed by The European Library Office, Royal Library of The Netherlands

Each bringing in more national libraries and advancing technically

Minerva/Minerva+

Michael /Micaheal+

FP6/ICT:

DELOS

BRICKS

QVIZ

others


Europeana

1st version of the prototype due to be launched 2

November 2008 – access to 2m digital objects (selected

from what already digitised and available)

Europeana.net (2007 – 2009)

Thematic Network

Establish trust between the institutions

Create the organisational structure for Europeana

Tackle domain interoperability issues (standards)

Propose a practical implementation of Europeana Service

Item or object level

Make recommendations for future research


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Other eContentplus projects supporting

Europeana

Already funded:

ATHENA (museums), European Film Gateway, ARROW (public

domain database), APENet (national archives)

New proposals:

Europeana Version 1.0: organisation building and the

implementation of core and infrastructure components',

Europeana Connect: implementation of additional core

functions,

Other proposals supported by the EDL Foundation:

ROSE (ICT), Scholarsource (ICT)‟ Europeanatravel (eContent+)‟

Europeana Movies (eContent+)‟ EU Screen (eContent+).,

Diamond (eContent+), Biodiversity Heritage Library Europe

(eContent+)


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EuropeanaLocal (2008-11)

www.europeanalocal.eu

Digital content held by regional and local museums, libraries and

archives

Make over 20 million items available initially

Local content infrastructure for harvesting and indexing by

Europeana and other services

Establish easy processes for making content available

OAI-PMH repositories

Europe wide network of repositories/ aggregations

Map to Europeana Metadata Application Profile

Local vocabularies „skosified‟

Content become part of integrated Europeana service


The importance of ‘place’

Europe as a geographic and political region =

Coherent user view onto cultural content

Logical way to provide such a view

Users very interested in place or locality

Life of a person/family very often closely linked to places

Family history

House/village history

High proportion of the cultural content has a spatial element

Much of the available content about places also resides in a

particular place

Locally held content often important to complete the partial

picture created by treasures and content held at national

level19 September 2008 7VLDL Workshop, ECDL, Aarhus

EuropeanaLocal - goals

Ensure content held at local and regional level is

represented alongside national content

Bring together and link up content from museums,

libraries, archives and a/v archives

Which is complementary in terms of:

Themes

Location

Time

Make possible services with greater richness and

complexity

Thus add value for users


Description

A Best Practice Network, Funded under eContentplus

Started 1 June 2008 for 3 years

Have already identified over 20 million items

If extrapolate to all the cultural institutions in Europe (in

the context of continuing and growing digitisation

activities) - shows the potential of local organisations and

the scale of Europeana‟s ambitions

Will put in place infrastructure to increase amount of

content available to Europeana

And – enhance the skills, expertise and motivation

required for local organisations across Europe to

contribute their content


What sort of content?

All public domain to start with, in-copyright later

Wide variety of formats

Images (higher in the mix than Europeana)

Film

Sound

Text

Treasures held at local or regional level, specific local

collections held by libraries, museums and sound

archives, public records (more „cultural‟ at local level)

Very broad range of subjects – likely to be of interest to

other sectors

E.g. tourism, education, family history, humanities, publishing,

media 19 September 2008 10VLDL Workshop, ECDL, Aarhus

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EuropeanaLocal partners – analysis

EDL Foundation

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


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EuropeanLocal partners

1 Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality

2 Stichting European Digital Library

3 MDR Partners

4 Public Library 'Pencho Slaveykov' (Public Library of Varna)

5 Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation

6 Cross Czech A.S

7 Roskilde Kommune

8 City of Helsinki

9 Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

10 Veria Central Public Library

11 Békés County Library & Human Service Centre

12 An Chomhairle Leabharlanna

13 Regione Marche

14 National Library of Latvia

15 Dizi (Lithuania)


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EuropeanLocal partners (2)

16 AcrossLimits Technologies Ltd

17 MDA (Europe)

18 Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN

19 Fundacao Museu Nacional Ferroviario

20 Biblioteca Judeteana "Octavian Goga" Cluj

21 Slovenské národné múzeum (Slovak National Museum)

22 Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica

23 Stiftelsen Länsmuseet Västernorrland

24 EEA s.r.o.

25 Asplan Viak Internet AS

26 Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

27 Provincie Limburg

28 Eesti Rahva Muuseum (Estonian National Museum)

29 Conseil Général de la Gironde

30 Stichting Brabantse Regionale Geschiedbeoefening

31 Ministry of Culture, Spain

32 ABM Utvikling, Norway


Challenges to be addressed (1)

Huge variety of digital content, very widely distirbuted,

held in variety of media, many different formats and

described by a wide variety of metadata schemes

Multiple and complicated aggregation levels

Objects and collections simply made available through websites

Autonomous digital libraries/collections are federated or

accessed through unified interfaces

Managed approaches where metadata and/or objects

aggregated in one or more portals or services (+ service

agreements)

Means we need to establish a clear and direct route for

institutions at local level to contribute content to

Europeana


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Contributing content – not

straightforward

Content collectionsitems and resources

Content providers, mediatorsand aggregators

Machine-to-machinetechnologies

End-user servicetechnologies

EDLocal content provider organisation

Content

XML/HTTP

Resources

Collections

Metadata harvesting

Legacy databasesStandards

Items

IPRMetadata

OCRMiningCommission

EDLocal

Michael

EDL Foundation

Committee of Regions

National Cps

Ministries of Culture

Local CpsRegional Cps

National initiatives

Thematic networks

MinervaTEL

Tagging

Folksonomies

Ontologies

OWL

RDF

OAI-PMH

SemanticWeb

Meta noise

Taxonomies

Collabularies

Search engines

Geography

Deep content

Web Services

Web 2.0

Future services

Syndication/RSS/Atom

XML/HTTP

WIKIs

Participation

Blogs

Open Source

Multi-lingual services

Business models

AJAX

IPR

EDLnet

Application profiles

Authentication

Controlled vocabularies

Payment

i2010

Google

TELplus

TEL-ME-MOR

Europeana

Fedora

DSpace

Greenstone

SKOS


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Content migration process steps

Content & Content

Collections

Metadata extraction

Local classification

shemas

Metadata harmonization & cross mapping

Controlled vocabularies

Multi-lingualityMetadata

enrichmentIPR clearance

Assign Unique IDs

Populate repository

Authentication mechanisms

Europeana


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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


EuropeanaLocal - outputs

In short term will make content available from a variety of

cultural institutions from at least one locality or region in

each Member State (x Lux initially, + Norway)

Will put in place, test and promote use of a consistent

Europeana compliant execution environment

technical infrastructure, tools and metadata etc

and governance structures (sustainability)

to enable local organisations across Europe to easily

contribute content in future


Challenges to be addressed (2)

Need to create the conditions for building on the

thematic richness and geographic diversity of Europe‟s

cultural traditions and social identities

Volume of content + language issues

Will support and benefit from intelligent semantic and

geographic exploration and retrieval (beyond simple or

federated keyword search)

Likely technologies include RDF, OWL and SKOS

EuropeanaLocal content will provide an important test

bed + real world conditions


Europeana – future developments

Nov 2008 – launch prototype

Institutions/aggregators use Europeana Semantic Elements v2 till (metadata elements) ... (hand mapped)

Scalability requires machine transformation either at local aggregator or central level

Europeana Ver 1.0 (new project) delivers first release early 2010

Object data and metadata as well as abstractions and other elements aggregated into rich 'surrogates' according to high level functional / technical specification D2.5

Surrogates are linked to each other and to Semantic Web nodes

Details of underlying object model to be worked out in Europeana

1.0 taking into account CIDOC CRM, DCMI Abstract, OAI ORE

Data may need to be reindexed by Europeana


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Europeana prototype metadata

No Europeana application profile proposed yet

Data used with existing schemas

So far received in

TEL application profile

DC (simple, qualified)

MODS

METS

EAD

proprietary

Mapping and conversion done in-house at Europeana


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Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE)

For the Prototype launched to European Commission, Council of

Ministers, 19/20 November 2008 (and until Europeana 1.0 delivers

in 2010)

Metadata defined to match specific functionality of prototype

Used for search and display

Facet - defines if used for search refinement and type of facet (who,

what, when, where)

Timeline – defines if used in the timeline browse function

Advanced search – defines if used in advanced search

Full search result display – defines if content is displayed in full result

display

+ all elements used for simple search


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ESE…

Mixture of DC (qualified) plus 5(?) new elements

„Shown by: (ie URI)

„Shown at: a way of showing object in full context (needed e.g. for

archives, „treasures‟ which may be embedded not just jpeg)

User Tag: public tags created by registered users

Unstored: („bucket for useful stuff not mappable elsewhere)

Object : (internal use – identifies where to get thumbnail)

Mandatory

Date (of creation of original object – not of digitisation)

Shown by (URI of link to digital object)

Source (name of organisation holding object)

Title (title of the original object)

Type (Text, Stillimage, Movingimage, Sound) – used in search


Project structure & phases

2 x operation of the project Project management & co-ordination (WP1)

Evaluation & progress monitoring (WP6)

1 x publicity & operating/business model Dissemination and awareness raising (WP5)

1 x preparatory Metadata survey & content analysis (WP1)

2 x doing stuff with content Content harvesting & aggregation (WP3)

Implementing Europeana standards & tools (WP4)


Preparatory work

Relatively brief survey to determine:

range of available content

Metadata schema and approaches

Metadata harvesting activity

Repository aggregation levels

Will be related to Europeana findings and recommended

architecture to arrive at workable approach

Identification of pan-European and cross-border „themes‟

of interest to users and prioritisation of new content to

Europeana service


Content harvesting and aggregation

Establishment of a central test environment (consistent

with and linked to) Europeana

Content suppliers can „plug in‟

Modifications can be tested

Will enable planned and phased harvesting operations to be

tested and understood

Will establish a central service to manage and synchronise the

network of OAI-PMH servers

Will provide central repository services and indexing

End Users – will be involved in user testing in each

region, at each stage


Tools and standards adoption

EuropeanaLocal will adopt Europeana tools and

standards as they are developed and released according

to Europeana timescales

EuropeanaLocal will:

provide an opportunity to adapt these to content providers

needs in a concerted manner, Europe wide

Especially - deal with the problems of configuring OAI

repositories to serve up data that is not in one of the major

domain recognised formats in its native form

Test Europeana tools in a real world environment

Seek to identify gaps and find suitable tools to fill them


Training and technical support

Training workshops

Help desk and guidance materials

Site visits

Covering best practice in e.g:

Installation of repositories

Configuration

Database conversion

Metadata mapping

Collection level description

Vocabulary conversion through SKOS

Rights expression

Semantic enrichment


Dissemination and awareness raising

Important element of the project

Promote the results and availability of EuropeanaLocal

service

Encourage wider take-up and participation

Address governance and roll-out processes for Europeana

Agree straightforward administrative and technical procedures for

new organisations joining

E.g. Any subscription charges, service level agreements, roles and

responsibilities, other costs or conditions of joining

Likely to include establishment in each country whereby this is

handled by aggregators of various sorts and at various levels

Agree how content providers get a voice in Europeana

developments and governance


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Contact

[email protected]

www.eauropeanalocal.eu


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