hope presentation @eva/minerva 2011

HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

HOPE presentationEVA/MINERVA 2011

15th November 2011, Jerusalem

HOPE technical implementationMarco Rendina

CGIL (Italy)


HOPE project structure

Workpackages structure:

• dd


HOPE architectureFor dummies


T2.1 High-Level Design Overview For nerds


HOPE Aggregator For nerds


HOPE Shared Object Repository

For über-nerds


HOPE Metadata distribution


Collections Type


Encoding Formats


Some conclusions

Key features of the HOPE data are:

• ‘cross-domain’ aggregator• 46% archive; 27% library; 27% museum & other• 43% MAB/MARC; 30% EAD/ISAD(G); 14% Dublin Core

• rich, community-specific data

• half standardised/half idiosyncratic data

• hierarchical metadata• 13/129 collections with multi-level descriptions

• compound objects• 68/129 collections (41%) #MD<#DO

• controlled vocabularies• places: 96%/18%; subjects: 95%/21%; agents:78%/23% (local / published)

• multilingual data• 8 languages; 83,5% unilingual descriptions; 1,5% non-Latin script


Metadata publishing

Local Structures

Common HOPE Metadata Structure

Discovery ServiceStructures

# localprofiles

hopeschema

2 major goals:

• Overcome idiosyncrasies

• Overcome cross-domain nature


Transformation Procedure

Local Structures

HOPEDomain Profiles

Common HOPE Metadata Structure

Discovery ServiceStructures

# localprofiles

archive profile

library profile

visual profile

audio-visual profile

dublin-core profile

hopeschema

social sitesprofiles

EDMprofile


HOPE Data Model

• 8 Entities • EDM

(descriptions – digital representations - authorities)

• 5 Sub-entities (domain-specific elements)

• 132 Properties• Descriptive Metadata

(Dublin Core)

• Hierarchies (EDM)

• Compound Digital Objects

• 8 General Attributes• Domain specific information

(encoding schemes– cataloguing standards)

• Normalised values• Multilingual information

(languages – scripts)


HOPE Domain Profiles

• Archive Profile• ISAD(G) / EAD• Reference Projects: APEnet

• Library Profile• ISBD / MARCXML• TEL

• Museum Profile• Spectrum / LIDO• ATHENA

• Audio-Visual Profile• EN15907 / EFG XML Schema• CEN TC-372 & EFG

• Dublin Core Profile• Dublin Core / ESE


How can you contribute?

…or how to get your digital files from your own catalogue to the HOPE repository and to Europeana?

Just follow these 5 basic steps!


The 5 basic steps

courtesy of Ed Yourdon


5 Basic Steps

1. Arrange your data in data-sets

2. Export each data-set to an XML file

3. Fill in a mapping sheet for each data set

4. Give the XML files to HOPE

5. In case of emergency:[email protected]


5 Basic Steps







…5 Further Issues

• The digital repository: where are your files stored?

• The PID issue: what if your links break?

• The Great IPR Monster that says: “Copyright, copyright!”

• Enriched data & shared thesauri• Your data on Facebook? Twitter? etc.


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For further questions contact me [email protected]

and go to http://igwiki.peoplesheritage.eu

@mrendina www.slideshare.net/mrendina

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