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

serviceservice

IACH workshop, ECDLIACH workshop, ECDLAarhus, 19 September 2008Aarhus, 19 September 2008

Rob Davies, MDRRob Davies, MDRProject Manager Project Manager

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A structure for Europeana?

EuropeanaL

National Digital Library

ACE

Film Archive X

Eurbica National Archive 1

MICHAEL

TEL

NL 1 NL 2 NL 3

Museum X

Archive X

National Archive 2

Film Archive 1

Film Archive 2

Film Archive 3

National Archive 3

Library X

Museum A Archive A Library A

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Thematic NetworkThematic Network

Establish trust between the institutionsEstablish trust between the institutions Create the organisational structure for a European Digital Create the organisational structure for a European Digital

Library (Europeana)Library (Europeana)

Tackle domain interoperability issues (standards)Tackle domain interoperability issues (standards) Propose a practical implementation of the European Propose a practical implementation of the European

Digital LibraryDigital Library

Item or object levelItem or object level

Make recommendations for future researchMake recommendations for future research

Europeana.Net (2007-9)Europeana.Net (2007-9)

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EuropeanaLocal (2008-11)EuropeanaLocal (2008-11)

Best Practice NetworkBest Practice Network

Digital content sourced by Digital content sourced by regional/local libraries, regional/local libraries, museums, archivesmuseums, archives

Local content infrastructure for Local content infrastructure for harvestingharvesting and indexing and indexing metadatametadata OAI-PMH repositoriesOAI-PMH repositories Europe wide network of repositories/ aggregations Europe wide network of repositories/ aggregations map existing metadata to Europeana Metadata Application Profilemap existing metadata to Europeana Metadata Application Profile local vocabularies ‘SKOSified’ local vocabularies ‘SKOSified’

Establish easy processes for making content/metadata Establish easy processes for making content/metadata availableavailable to Europeana and other services (tourism, education, family history, to Europeana and other services (tourism, education, family history,

researchresearch

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Basic facts Basic facts

Duration 36 monthsDuration 36 months Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded)Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded) 1031+ Person-months in total1031+ Person-months in total 32 Partners32 Partners 39 Deliverables39 Deliverables

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EuropeanaLocal: key objectivesEuropeanaLocal: key objectives Improve interoperability of digital content held by regional Improve interoperability of digital content held by regional

and local museums, libraries and archives and local museums, libraries and archives

Improve availability for access and use Improve availability for access and use estimated 20 million items identified initially by EuropeanaLocal estimated 20 million items identified initially by EuropeanaLocal

partners alone partners alone prove the value of local/regionally sourced contentprove the value of local/regionally sourced content promote digitisation of local/regional contentpromote digitisation of local/regional content

Help develop Europe wide network of regional Help develop Europe wide network of regional repositories/ aggregations repositories/ aggregations (e.g. with national or regional digital libraries or cultural portals)(e.g. with national or regional digital libraries or cultural portals)

Integrated Europeana prototype service including Integrated Europeana prototype service including EuropeanaLocal contentEuropeanaLocal content

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Important local content typesImportant local content types

Items and collections of high cultural value (‘treasures’) Items and collections of high cultural value (‘treasures’) held at local or regional levelheld at local or regional level

Specific local collections held by libraries, museums and Specific local collections held by libraries, museums and archives, local audio-visual archivesarchives, local audio-visual archives

Images high in the mixImages high in the mix

Public domain ‘cultural’ records held by archives etc. Public domain ‘cultural’ records held by archives etc.

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EuropeanaLocal partners: types of EuropeanaLocal partners: types of organisationorganisation

EDLFoundation EDLFoundation 1 Ministry of Culture 1 Ministry of Culture 2 national libraries (as aggregators of local content)2 national libraries (as aggregators of local content) 2 national museums2 national museums 3 national cultural agencies3 national cultural agencies 5 regional cultural authorities5 regional cultural authorities 7 public libraries 7 public libraries 1 local museum1 local museum 1 research foundation1 research foundation 1 regional digital library provider1 regional digital library provider 7 private sector organisations7 private sector organisations

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Contributing content – not Contributing content – not straightforwardstraightforward

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 Cps Regional CpsNational 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 modelsAJAX

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 stepsContent migration process steps

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Variable starting pointsVariable starting points

Advanced practice in implementing digital libraries, Advanced practice in implementing digital libraries, portals, OAI-PMH etc portals, OAI-PMH etc France, Norway, Poland, Spain, UKFrance, Norway, Poland, Spain, UK

Limited progress Limited progress Bulgaria, Greece, Romania etcBulgaria, Greece, Romania etc

Gamut from somewhat centralised to very regional/local Gamut from somewhat centralised to very regional/local

Phased approachPhased approach

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Europeana content holdersEuropeana content holders

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How to persuade local institutions How to persuade local institutions to contribute?to contribute?

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Main stagesMain stages

1.1. Kick off meeting, London 26/7 JuneKick off meeting, London 26/7 June2.2. Analyse content available, metadata and infrastructures Analyse content available, metadata and infrastructures

in use in use themes?themes?

3.3. Europeana sets up parallel ‘test’ environment Europeana sets up parallel ‘test’ environment index harvested EuropeanaLocal content index harvested EuropeanaLocal content implement Europeana interface developments on contentimplement Europeana interface developments on content

4.4. Guidance on installing repositoriesGuidance on installing repositories support for implementation where necessarysupport for implementation where necessary Fedora, DSpace, Greenstone, LMS etcFedora, DSpace, Greenstone, LMS etc

5.5. Import from existing databases to OAI-PMH Import from existing databases to OAI-PMH repositoriesrepositories automate metadata conversion automate metadata conversion

6.6. Transform vocabularies to improve semanticsTransform vocabularies to improve semantics

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Main stages (2)Main stages (2)

7.7. Regional training workshops and technical help/support Regional training workshops and technical help/support

8.8. Local implementation planning Local implementation planning

9.9. Move towards sensible levels of aggregation Move towards sensible levels of aggregation low entrance barrier for new content suppliers to joinlow entrance barrier for new content suppliers to join

10.10. Promote low-cost digitisation Promote low-cost digitisation (e.g. Minerva guidelines) (e.g. Minerva guidelines)

11.11. Policy/dissemination work Policy/dissemination work National MeetingsNational Meetings

websitewebsite

12.12. Evaluation and progress monitoring Evaluation and progress monitoring user perspective, national user groups, impact studyuser perspective, national user groups, impact study

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Role of technical partnersRole of technical partners

Involvement with Europeana.net/Europeana v1.0 Involvement with Europeana.net/Europeana v1.0

working groupsworking groups

Establish effective support to local regional partnersEstablish effective support to local regional partners Europe coverage split in twoEurope coverage split in two

training workshops training workshops

translate guidelinestranslate guidelines

individual partner implementation plans individual partner implementation plans

help desk and ‘flying doctor’help desk and ‘flying doctor’

Establish a working tools ‘scenario’Establish a working tools ‘scenario’ automated metadata conversion tools etc?automated metadata conversion tools etc?

road testing and problem identification for Europeana toolsroad testing and problem identification for Europeana tools

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Open Archive InitiativeOpen Archive Initiative

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Europeana Semantic Elements Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE)(ESE)

Prototype launched to EC, Council of Ministers, 19/20 NovPrototype launched to EC, Council of Ministers, 19/20 Nov Metadata defined to match specific functionality of prototype Metadata defined to match specific functionality of prototype No Europeana application profile proposed yetNo Europeana application profile proposed yet

data used with existing schemas data used with existing schemas TEL application profile, DC (simple, qualified), MODS,METS. EAD, TEL application profile, DC (simple, qualified), MODS,METS. EAD,

proprietary proprietary mapping and conversion done in-house at Europeanamapping and conversion done in-house at Europeana

Longer term scalabiityLonger term scalabiity will require decentralisationwill require decentralisation automation of metadata conversion either at aggregator or central automation of metadata conversion either at aggregator or central

level level ’’User tag’: public tags created by registered usersUser tag’: public tags created by registered users

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Metadata enrichmentMetadata enrichment

Mainly manually entered but also process text to look for person names

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

Difficult to get disambiguous temporal metadata but possible

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Future stepsFuture steps Europeana VI delivers first release early 2010Europeana VI delivers first release early 2010 Institutions/aggregators use ESE till thenInstitutions/aggregators use ESE till then Need to deal with ‘place’ and geographic metadata Need to deal with ‘place’ and geographic metadata Locally-implemented processes for metadata enrichment?Locally-implemented processes for metadata enrichment? Monitor impact of complementary infrastructural standardsMonitor impact of complementary infrastructural standards

Object modelling - OAI/ORE Object modelling - OAI/ORE RSS/|ATOMRSS/|ATOM Semantic web Semantic web Social networks Social networks CollectionsCollections Rights expression (C20 black hole)Rights expression (C20 black hole) IdentifiersIdentifiers

Interest in object models (ORE) for Europeana V1Interest in object models (ORE) for Europeana V1 Data may need to be reindexed by EuropeanaData may need to be reindexed by Europeana

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