1 / 17

Antoine Isaac

Antoine Isaac. 1 st PRELIDA Workshop Pisa, June 26, 2013. What is Europeana?. Europe’s digital cultural network. 26M objects and 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries. Libraries. National Aggregators. Regional Aggregators. Archives. Museums. Thematic collections.

ghalib
Download Presentation

Antoine Isaac

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Antoine Isaac 1st PRELIDA Workshop Pisa, June 26, 2013

  2. What is Europeana?

  3. Europe’s digital cultural network 26M objects and 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries Libraries National Aggregators Regional Aggregators Archives Museums Thematic collections

  4. What types of objects does Europeana gives access to? Sound 3D Video Text Image Video

  5. What Europeana makes available Metadata Link to digital objects online

  6. CC Metadata for re-use Available via • API • Search widgets • Experimenting with Linked Data • http://pro.europeana.eu/api

  7. Europeana & Linked Open Data

  8. New Europeana Data Model http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation/

  9. A model for linking metadata • Internal links and external links • Representing better original metadata - reducing information loss • Enabling metadata enrichment

  10. Europeana and LD – a blurred picture • Ingest metadata as XML (even though it is a form of RDF/XML) • But able to fetch some linked data when using specific vocabularies • Store in non-RDF store • Yet do query expansion using semantic hierarchies or concepts with translated labels

  11. Europeana and LD – a blurred picture • Enrich metadata with linked data sources GEMET, Geonames, Dbpedia (a bit) • Output metadata in Linked data ways • Pilot “real” linked data – data.europeana.eu • Schema.org mark-up on portal • Soon JSON-LD for API results

  12. Europeana (and friends) and preservation

  13. Not very good • Europeana metadata changes • Europeana often re-ingest metadata • Descriptions change: objects added or removed, mappings changed • Europeana links die • Two causes: • Aggregation process (organization of data sources) sometimes result in a change of collection IDs – shared blame! • Providers change their data, including their identifiers

  14. The community doesn’t seem to care much • Europeana Task force on persistent identifiers • No result so far, except me giving some input to Phil… • LODLAM session on preserving linked data last week in Montreal • 4 participants • There are more urgent problems to solve • LD preservation issues seem similar to Web ones. And Web survive without apparently bothering…

  15. And yet there are discussions (1/2) • Basic issue: preserving data for decentralized access and use • Basic requirement: persistent URIs • Beyond persistent URIs: data/links can change! • Updates are similar to what happens for historical place names in library catalogues • Importance of preserving contexts: different parts of the provenance (esp. data producers and time) • RDF triples make time and data provenance tricky, unless we go for quadruples or versioned URIs, making it more difficult for “basic” users • Interest of "historical Http GET”, à la Memento http://summit2013.lodlam.net/2013/06/21/notes-from-the-preserving-linked-data-session/

  16. And yet there are discussions (2/2) • Basic solution: no versioned URIs, but keep track of different versions of the representations Internet Archive with one canonical RDF representation for each URI • Preserve/give access to which versions of the data? • Users probably want the "best" data for a URI. And it may change… • Libraries have cases where people ask to remove data. An authoritative service should not serve historical data then. • Should we create/re-use URIs or HTTP status codes (410?) for removed data? • Keep in mind: Cf OAIS, preservation success is success for humans! http://summit2013.lodlam.net/2013/06/21/notes-from-the-preserving-linked-data-session/

  17. Thank you Antoine Isaac - aisaac@few.vu.nl with slides from the Europeana Office

More Related