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VSMM 2008 Short Paper 23 October 2008 Rob Davies, Scientific Co-ordinator EuropeanaLocal

Europeana and EuropeanaLocal the role of local and regional digital cultural content in the Europeana service. VSMM 2008 Short Paper 23 October 2008 Rob Davies, Scientific Co-ordinator EuropeanaLocal. Flagship project of i2010

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VSMM 2008 Short Paper 23 October 2008 Rob Davies, Scientific Co-ordinator EuropeanaLocal

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  1. Europeana and EuropeanaLocal the role of local and regional digital cultural content in the Europeana service VSMM 2008 Short Paper 23 October 2008 Rob Davies, Scientific Co-ordinator EuropeanaLocal

  2. Flagship project of i2010 Letter by six Heads of State and Government to the European Commission (2005) Advocated creation of a virtual European library Aiming to make Europe’s cultural and scientific records accessible to all Positive response from the Commission Outline strategy: Communication "i2010: Digital Libraries" Communication on ‘access to scientific information in the digital age’ (2007) Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI)http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm

  3. Focus of the DLI • Make Europe's rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use online • for work, leisure and/or study • books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc • Combine multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models • Two strands: • Cultural heritage: • build a common European Digital Library • Scientific heritage: • ensure current and future access for research and innovation purposes .

  4. The EU Vision • Across Museums, Archives, Libraries, Audiovisual Archives and other content owners • Centres of Competence • Centres of Competence Access Digitisation Preservation

  5. “For the users it is not important whether the sources of knowledge and experience are kept by archives, libraries or museums, but to get access to the sources they want, and to be able to use these sources across types of sources and sectors of institutions.”

  6. Predecessor infrastructural projects • TEL (The European Library) • Collaborative platform of 48 CENL national libraries • Managed by The European Library Office, KL Netherlands • Free searching, object level, standardised metadata, multilingual access • Sequence of projects ((IST, eContentplus) 2003- • Each bringing in more national libraries and advancing technically • MICHAEL/MICHAELPLus (2004-8) • Driven mainly by Ministries of Culture • Funded under e-Ten • Access to collection descriptions • Research projects (FP6/ICT) • DELOS, BRICKS, QVIZ and more

  7. The roadmap to a European Digital Library • End of 2006: full collaboration among EU National Libraries • From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to Archives, Museums and Audiovisual Archives • November 2007: EDL Foundation in place • major European associations of archives, audiovisual archives, museums and libraries as founders • 2,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts, and other cultural works accessible by 2008 • At least 6,000,000 works by 2010

  8. EDL Foundation

  9. Europeana • Thematic Network: Europeana.Net (2007-9) • Establish trust between the institutions • Create the organisational structure for Europeana • Tackle domain interoperability issues (standards) • Propose a practical implementation/prototype • Business model • Annual cost 3.6 million EUR • EC projects + national ministries + site revenue • Item or object level • Make recommendations for future research

  10. European Commission commitment • New project cluster under eContent+ (already/about to be under contract) • Europeana Local (began June 2008) • Athena • European Film Gateway • Apenet (national archives) • New projects coming under eContentplus and CIP • EuropeanaV1, EuropeanaConnect (under negotiation) • etc

  11. EuropeanaLocal (2008-11) • Best Practice Network • Digital content sourced by regional/local libraries, museums, archives • Local content infrastructure for harvesting and indexing metadata (objects stay on original sites) • OAI-PMH repositories • Europe wide network of repositories/ aggregations • map existing metadata to Europeana Metadata Application Profile • local vocabularies ‘SKOSified’ • Establish easy processes for making content/metadata available • to Europeana and other services (tourism, education, family history, research)

  12. Basic facts • Duration 36 months • Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded) • 1031+ Person-months in total • 32 Partners • 39 Deliverables

  13. EuropeanaLocal: key objectives • Improve interoperability of digital content held by regional and local museums, libraries and archives • Improve availability for access and use • estimated 20 million items identified initially by partners • prove the value of local/regionally sourced content • promote digitisation of local/regional content • Help develop Europe wide network of repositories + aggregations • support sensible levels of aggregation (digital libraries, cultural portals etc) • Integrated Europeana prototype service including EuropeanaLocal content

  14. Important local content types • Items and collections of high cultural value (‘treasures’) held at local or regional level • Specific local collections held by libraries, museums and archives, local audio-visual archives • Images high in the mix • Public domain ‘cultural’ records held by archives etc. • Promote content contribution from local users/communities • More digitisation needed for full representation of all localities

  15. EuropeanaLocal partners: types of organisation • EDLFoundation • 1 Ministry of Culture (as aggregators of local content) • 2 national libraries 2 national museums (“) • 3 national cultural agencies (“) • 5 regional cultural authorities • 7 public libraries • 1 local museum • 1 research foundation • 1 regional digital library provider • 7 private sector organisations

  16. Contributing content – not straightforward i2010 TEL-ME-MOR Michael Standards Legacy databases Ministries of Culture TEL Minerva Collections TELplus Resources Europeana IPR EDLocal SKOS Metadata Committee of Regions XML/HTTP National initiatives Items Application profiles Regional Cps Local Cps National Cps Metadata harvesting Content Thematic networks EDLnet Mining OCR EDL Foundation Commission Authentication Meta noise Syndication/RSS/Atom Web 2.0 OWL OAI-PMH Fedora SemanticWeb Blogs Web Services Ontologies Business models Greenstone Google Future services AJAX Controlled vocabularies Tagging RDF Participation IPR DSpace WIKIs Geography Collabularies Payment Open Source Search engines XML/HTTP Deep content Folksonomies Multi-lingual services Taxonomies

  17. Variable starting points • Advanced practice among EuropeanaLocal partners in implementing digital libraries, portals, OAI-PMH etc • France, Norway, Poland, Spain, UK etc • Limited progress • Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Romania etc • Spectrum from somewhat centralised to very regional/local • Centralised initiatives seldom have full country coverage • Europeana target for national portal aggregations is 14 member states by 2012 • Currently 6 or 7 underway? • Collection level or item level? • EuropeanaLocal: phased approach

  18. Europeana content holders

  19. How to persuade local institutions to contribute?

  20. Main stages • Kick off meeting, London 26/7 June • Analyse content available, metadata and infrastructures in use • themes? • Europeana sets up parallel ‘test’ environment • index harvested EuropeanaLocal content • implement Europeana interface developments on content • Guidance on installing repositories • support for implementation where necessary • Fedora, DSpace, Greenstone, LMS etc • Import from existing databases to OAI-PMH repositories • automate metadata conversion? • Transform vocabularies to improve semantics

  21. Main stages (2) • Regional training workshops and technical help/support • Local implementation planning • Move towards sensible levels of aggregation • low entrance barrier for new content suppliers to join • Promote low-cost digitisation • (e.g. Minerva guidelines) • Policy/dissemination work • National Meetings • website • Evaluation and progress monitoring • user perspective, national user groups, impact study

  22. Open Archive Initiative

  23. Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE) • Prototype launched to EC, Council of Ministers, 19/20 Nov • Metadata defined to match specific functionality of prototype • No Europeana application profile proposed yet • data used with existing schemas • TEL application profile, DC (simple, qualified), MODS,METS. EAD, proprietary • mapping and conversion done in-house at Europeana • Longer term scalabiity • will require decentralisation • automation of metadata conversion either at aggregator or central level • ’User tag’: public tags created by registered users

  24. Metadata enrichment Mainly manually entered but also process text to look for person names Difficult to get disambiguous temporal metadata but possible Similar technology as is applied by search engines, extracting keywords and assigning relevance according to frequency Coverage is specifiEuropeana in any number of ways such as geographical names, administrative entities and coordinates. Need geo-metadata

  25. Multilingual Information Access in Europeana • Goal: providing the same level of discoverability to users regardless of their language • Europeana reviewing research to draw upon in next phase • Gap analysis: results in January • STITCH, Telplus, CACAO, Telplus (subject headings), Multimatch • Need to progress murlilingual search and retrieval on metadata in context, more automated • Full text discovery is improving with developments in machine translation etc • Treble Clef one-to-one relationship not scalable • Need repositories of online dictionaries: parsers, stemmers • some languages don’t have • Commitment to SKOS as a tool • http://www.edlproject.eu/conference/downloads/EDLconf_Sjoerd.pdf ,

  26. Future steps • Prototype launched to EC, Council of Ministers, 19/20 Nov • Europeana VI delivers first release early 2010 • Institutions/aggregators use ESE till then • Locally-implemented processes for metadata enrichment? • Integrate complementary infrastructure and standards • Semantic web • RSS/|ATOM, • Language • Place/geography • Social networks • Collection identification • Rights expression (C20 black hole) • Persistent identifiers

  27. OAI-ORE • Interest in object models for Europeana V1 • Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) specs released Oct 17# • Object surrogates • ‘provide foundation for applications and services that can visualize, preserve, transfer, summarize, and improve access to the aggregations that people use in their daily Web interaction’ • Leverage the core web architecture • Potentially interactive – not just one way like OAI-PMH • Data may need reindexing • Run in parallel with OAI-PMH

  28. www.europeanalocal.eu rob.davies@mdrpartners com

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