Europeana bergen may2010_dovwiner

Europeana for Scholarship

research and eLearning

Dov Winer

MAKASH Advancing CMC in Education, Culture

and Science (IL)

Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana (EAJC, UK)

“Our communities, with a view towards e-Learning”

COST A32 Workshop in Bergen, May 28-30, 2010

From Gradmann (2008)

http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

From Gradmann (2008)

http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica From Gradmann (2008)

http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

From Gradmann (2008)

http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

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• Europeana

• Linked Open Data

• Scholarly and eLearning applications

Europeana ― the vision

Europe’s digital libraries,

archives and museums

online

• A showcase for Europe’s

cultural and scientific

heritage

• A flagship project of the

European Commission and

the European Parliament.

“A digital library that is a single,

direct and multilingual access point

to the European cultural heritage.”

European Parliament, 27 September 2007

“A unique resource for Europe's

distributed cultural heritage …

ensuring a common access to

Europe's libraries, archives and

museums.”

Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content &

Cognitive Systems Information Society

Directorate, European Commission

Jill Cousins, Europeana Foundation, May 2010, Berlin

Jill Cousins, Europeana Foundation, May 2010, Berlin

From Jill Cousins (2010)

From Jill Cousins (2010)

From Jill Cousins (2010) From Repository to WunderKamer: user

participation in Europeana. DISH 2009 Rotterdam

eBooks on Demand

From Silvia Gstrein, eBooks on Demand, Europeana Connect meeing

Berlin April 2010

Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare

Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop

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C. Concordia et al. (2009). Not (just) a Repository, not (just) a Digital

Library, nor (just) a Portal: A Portrait of Europeana as an API.

IFLA, Milan.

C. Concordia et al. (2009). Not (just) a Repository, not (just) a Digital

Library, nor (just) a Portal: A Portrait of Europeana as an API.

IFLA, Milan.

Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare

Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop

From Gradmann (2008)

http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare

Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop

• Europeana

• Linked Open Data

• Scholarly and eLearning applications

http://linkeddata.org/ http://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDump

http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics (~13 Billion triplets March 9, 2010)

http://esw.w3.org/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData

dov.winer@gmail.com

SKOS Simple Knowledge ORGANIZATION SYSTEM

thesauri, classifications, subjects, taxonomies, folksonomies,…

controlled vocabulary

concepts are documented, linked, merged with other data, composed, integrated

and published on the Web

CONCEPTS identified by URIs using RDF triples

:natural language expressions to refer to

concepts

skos: prefLabel [descriptor]

skos: altLabel [synonims, acronyms, abbreviations]

SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS

…broader and narrower concepts

broader/narrower relationships assert that a concept

is broader/narrower in meaning

related…concepts somehow related

SCHEMES compiled sets of concepts: ConceptScheme class and inScheme

relationship to link a concept to a scheme

hasTopConcept relationship for the entry points of narrower/broader hierarchy

LINK schemes map concepts from different schemes using the properties

exactMatch, broadMatch, narrowMatch and relatedMatchMay 10

dov.winer@gmail.com

SKOS APPLICATIONS

I want to send my thesaurus/subject heading/taxonomy from one database/application to another

I want to publish my thesaurus/taxonomy… in an “electronic” form, so that it can become part of a distributed information network/environment

The Web values quality and openness (e.g. Wikipedia)

KOS are high quality resources [both the concepts and the links]

KOS are natural hubs…attractors…high gravity…attract links

act as firm foundation for a Web of data…

Links are paths to discovery (of documents, data,…); they can be exploited in useful and surprising ways (serendipity); well established KOS e.g. LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings, AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus) can be hubs in the Web of linked data May 10

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/search/

• Europeana

• Linked Open Data

• Scholarly and eLearning applications

C. Concordia et al. (2009). Not (just) a Repository, not (just) a Digital

Library, nor (just) a Portal: A Portrait of Europeana as an API.

IFLA, Milan.

http://relfinder.dbpedia.org/relfinder.html

http://relfinder.dbpedia.org/relfinder.html

Shai Ophir (2010). A New Type of Historical Knowledge. Information

Society,, 26: 144-150, 2010,

Shai Ophir (2010). A New Type of Historical Knowledge. Information

Society,, 26: 144-150, 2010,

Thank you for your attention!

Contact:

Dov Winer

dov.winer@gmail.com