europeana - american art collaborative lod meeting
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Antoine Isaac
Scientific Coordinator, Europeana
American Art Collaborative LOD MeetingSmithsonian American Art Museum, April 29, 2013
What is Europeana?
Europeana’s vision and mission
Europeana is a catalyst for change in the world of cultural heritage.
Our vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas and information.
Strategic Plan
Engage – We cultivate new ways for people to participate in their cultural heritage
Aggregate – We are building the open, trusted source for European cultural content
Facilitate – We support the cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation and advocacy
Distribute – We make heritage available to people wherever they are, whenever they want it
Europeana.eu, Europe’s cultural heritage portal
Museums
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
26M objects from 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries
What types of objects does Europeana gives access to?
Text Image Video Sound 3D
Aggregating museum data
Individual museums may provide data directly, but the vast majority goes/went through vast aggregators
EuropeanaLocal
ATHENA
Linked Heritage
various national aggregators
Europeana and open data
What Europeana makes available
Metadata
Link to digital objects online
Content (digital objects on the site of the provider)
Metadata (descriptive object information)
Different options
Two categories of rights
CC
Rights Statements for content
Open
Not open – but clear
Not open
Accessing and re-using Europeana data
How do users access Europeana content?
Europeana aims to provide content in the users’ workflow – where they want it, when they want it.
Europeana.eu portal
Project portals/exhibitions
Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest)…
Websites and apps using Europeana data independently
Europeana’s as infrastructure open for re-use
Europeana data available via
API
Search widgets
Semantic mark-up (schema.org) on portal
Linked Open Data pilot
http://pro.europeana.eu/api
http://data.europeana.eu
http://agris.fao.org/openagris/
http://www.digibis.com/dpla-europeana/
Hackathons to develop innovative new apps
http://pro.europeana.eu/hackathon-prototypes
Innovation - Searching
http://eculture.cs.vu.nl/europeana/ query : “Dieppe”
Innovation - annotating
Pundit @ DM2E project http://dm2e.eu
Take-home message
We can think of and build plenty cool things, but metadata openness and shared data models are crucial
Useful links
Europeana portal europeana.eu
Europeana Thought Lab pro.europeana.eu/thoughtlab/
Europeana end-user blog blog.europeana.eu/
Europeana Professional pro.europeana.eu
Europeana Professional blog pro.europeana.eu/blog
Facebook facebook.com/Europeana
Twitter twitter.com/EuropeanaEU
