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Achieving interoperability between the CARARE schema for monuments and sites
and the Europeana Data Model
Antoine Isaac, Valentine Charles, Kate Fernie, Costis Dallas, Dimitris Gavrilis, Stavros Angelis
Dublin Core Conference4 September 2013
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Europeana.eu, Europe’s cultural heritage portal
Text
Image
Video
Sound
3D
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Europeana’s aggregation network
Museums
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
29M objects from 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries
CARARE
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CARARE: Bringing content for archaeology and historic buildings to Europeana users
When: 3 year project (2010-2013)
Who: heritage organisations, archaeological museums, research institutions and specialist archives
29 partners in 21 countries
What: delivering content to Europeana
What: aggregation services and good practices for content relating to archaeological monuments and historic sites
• Metadata repository (MORE)
• Metadata schema
http://www.carare.eu
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CARARE Content
Images, text, videos, 3D models…
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CARARE Metadata Schema
Heritage asset
Digital resources
Activities
Collection
4 themes
http://www.carare.eu/eng/Resources/CARARE-Documentation
Acts as an intermediary between the native metadata of content providers and Europeana
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Heritage Assets
Monuments, landscape areas, artefacts…
Title, Description
Characteristics• Type, Materials, Dimensions, Inscriptions
• Spatial (place, address, map coordinates)
• Temporal (date, time span, period)
Actors
Designation, Condition
References
Relations
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Digital Resources
Images, texts, videos, audio, 3D models
Title, Description
Characteristics
Publication statement
Actors
Link to the object (URL)
Rights
Relations
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Europeana Data Model: an example
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Provided Cultural Heritage Object (CHO) and descriptive metadata
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Web Resources – digital representations
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Aggregations – Bundling it all together
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Objectives
Mapping: finding correspondences between the elements of both models so that CARARE can send good metadata to Europeana
Why is it important to report on this?
Mapping is rarely an easy issue
Models are complex, with subtle differences in world views
Both CARARE and Europeana benefits from “mapping meditation”
One of the hardest (confronting) metadata exercises!
Sharing concrete experiences benefits to all Europeana partners
And beyond: cf. goals of DC, “a metadata ecosystem”
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Questions so far?
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Mapping CARARE data to EDM
A CARARE object becomes one or several EDM Provided Cultural Heritage Objects with:
Related web resources
Aggregations
Contextual information about place
Some activity and spatial data cannot currently be mapped
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Creating EDM resources from CARARE data
edm:ProvidedCHO HA:PamFond/1978155
ore:Aggregationhttp://store.carare.eu/uid/iid:1655549/HA:PamFond/1978155
Heritage Asset’s identifier
PamFond/1978155
CARARE’s Heritage Assets always give raise to one EDM ProvidedCHOs with its companion Aggregation
The next issue is whether CARARE’s Digital Resources are also EDM CHOs…
It depends on the collection!
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edm:isRepresentationOf
edm:ProvidedCHO 1
edm:ProvidedCHO 5edm:ProvidedCHO 2
Scenario 1: cultural objects representing the CARARE HA count as CHOs
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edm:ProvidedCHO 3
edm:ProvidedCHO 1 edm:ProvidedCHO 2
Scenario 2: Digital Resources are cultural objects qualifying as EDM CHOs but some are shared among several Heritage Assets
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edm:ProvidedCHO 1
edm:WebResource 2edm:WebResource 1
Scenario 3: Digital Resources that are views of lesser cultural importance are treated as EDM Web Resources
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Contextual Resources – e.g., Places
CARARE’s geospatial enrichment represented with EDM contextual resource class
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Conclusions
CARARE provides better metadata to Europeana for 2M objects
In the process
We identified non-trivial issues
We documented solutions (this paper!)
It prompted updates to CARARE’s schema (3D ICONS project)
It confirms the relevance of a richer model like EDM for Europeana
Human supervision remains crucial for choosing the right option
Data curators can help here
as with many other quality issues in data aggregation projects!
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Thank you!
Questions?
Antoine Isaac, Valentine Charles, Kate Fernie, Costis Dallas, Dimitris Gavrilis, Stavros Angelis