europeanatech pgm12
DESCRIPTION
A presentation of the EuropeanaTech network, http://pro.europeana.eu/europeana-tech, at the Europeana Project Group Meeting, Sept. 2012: http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/breaking-out-of-the-bubble%3A-the-europeana-project-group-meetingTRANSCRIPT
Antoine Isaac(with slides from Max Kaiser Maarten Brinkerink, Johan Oomen, Evelien
Wolda, Marlies Olensky & Juliane Stiller)
Europeana Project Group Meeting
September 11 2012
EuropeanaTech - technical R&D in Europeana
Research and Development in Europeana context
Tech
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m Product Team
Analyse
Conceptualise
Specify
Evaluate
Identify
Implement
Marketing
Ingestion
Programme Management
ExternalR&D/expertise
EDM
R&D Agenda
Network
Product Development
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
Feeding R&D results from the scientific / open source community into the development of Europeana
Informing IT-related networks, e.g., the Linked Open Data or Digital Libraries communities, on Europeana-related R&D. disseminate our partners’ technological advances
The EDM model is improved and incrementally updated
Tasks
Supporting project: Europeanav2.0 WP7
Tasks
Developers' Network
Development of innovative applications for user interaction and UGC
Semantic Web / Linked Data
Multilingual Access / Translation
Supporting network: EuropeanaTech
DevelopersCurrently:• Persistent Identifiers• EDM and FRBRoo• Hierarchies
This period: • FLOSS inventory
Next period:• Software development
EuropeanaTechCommunity
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
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-
tech/
Output 1: Inventory of FLOSS in the Cultural Heritage Domain
Already 85 entries!
Already 85 entries!
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
Two example foci: EDM and multilingual issues
Focus: EDM status
Focus: EDM status
First implementation
• Provided Objects, Web Resources, Aggregations, Agents, Concepts, Places and TimeSpans
Documentation
• Definitions, Primer, Mapping Guidelines, Object templates, XML schema, RDF/OWL ontology
Prototyping ingestion with partners
• CARARE, MIMO, HOPE, CulturaItalia
Pilot export ESE->EDM as part of data.europeana.eu
Ingestion chain ready in October
Focus: EDM next steps
Assessing input data and processes with partners• Getting mappings from original data to EDM
Validate existing choices of properties
Propose refinements or extensions
Adapt data dissemination channels to interoperability needs• Facilitate re-use of Europeana metadata by partners and third-parties
Focus: EDM next steps
Metadata enrichment
Linking objects to contextual resources• GeoNames, VIAF, domain-specific thesauri
Linking contextual resources• Thesaurus alignment
Linking objects• Clusters, FRBRization
Focus: EuropeanaTech EDM task forces
Model refinements on EDM
Task force on Hierarchical Objects
Task force on EDM-FRBRoo Application Profile
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/-/wiki/Main/Market+study+on+technical+options+for+semantic+feature+extractionhttp://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/-/wiki/Main/Taskforce+on+hierarchical+objectshttp://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/-/wiki/Main/Task+Force+EDM+FRBRoo
Focus: multilingual issues
Multilingual display, retrieval and interactions are not commonly implemented in CH websites
• State-of-the-art analysis of 50 cultural heritage websites
Dimensions of multilingual access
Interface
Search (query translation or document translation)
Result presentation
Browsing
Europeana's efforts
Interface translated into 26 languages
Query translation: only prototype
Query result filtering by country/language
Document translation (user enabled)
Semantic contextualization of objects
• Multilingual enrichment/annotation of metadata
Multilingual foci
Focus on educating community• Multilingual dimensions and effects on display and retrieval
• Multilingual handling in EDM and ESE
• Ingestion of multilingual contextual resources (thesauri etc)
R&D: better use of language resources• Natural language processing
• NB: some of “our” resources (thesauri etc.) are also language resources!
Multilingual and semantics can go hand-in-hand
Fetching available linked data
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-vocabdataset/
E.g., from libraries
Interoperability
Encouraging the use of RDF + common and simple elements
Interoperability
Encourage the use of common and simple data elements
<skos:Concept rdf:about="http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/2308"> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="fr">Piano carré</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="it">Pianoforte a tavolino</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Square pianoforte</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="de">Tafelklavier</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="nl">Tafelpiano</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="sv">Taffel</skos:prefLabel> <skos:broader> <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/2273"> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Pianofortes</skos:prefLabel> </skos:Concept> </skos:broader></skos:Concept>
Multilingual Access: users back in the loop
EuropeanaTech: lessons being learnt
Need for active community support• Highlight the added value to contribute to EuropeanaTech
• Actively disseminate outcomes
• Reach out to the wider community
also outside de EU!
Need to actively manage task forces:• Define stort-term, measurable goals
• Provide communication support
• Tasks are interleaved and should inform each other
How to contribute?
Several levels: organization, advice, code, data…
Become a member of the EuropeanaTech community
• mailing list, twitter…
Designate a "technical/R&D contact point" in their project?
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/
How to contribute?
React to our deliverables
Contribute prototypes & demos in ThoughtLab
Contribute deliverables & software to mindmaps
• semantic technology
• should we create other mindmaps?
Contribute documented EDM metadata and mappings for next steps of EDM
Participate our coming meetings
• how about a joint technical meeting in 2013?
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/
Thank you!
Antoine Isaac, [email protected]