Europeana and the relevance of the DM2E results

Europeana and the relevance of the DM2E results

Antoine Isaac

DM2E Final Event

Pisa, December 11

Europe’s platform to access cultural heritage

Currently36M objects

Built on descriptive metadatafrom a broad, heterogeneous network

Audiovisual collections

National Aggregators

Regional Aggregators

Archives

Thematic collections

Libraries

Musées Lausannois

Culture.frThe European Library

APEX

European Film Gateway Europeana Fashion

2,300 galleries, museums, archives and libraries

More than this

Distributing content

Europeana aims to provide content in the users’ workflow – where they want it, when they want it.

Web portal, project portals/exhibitions, social media, app

Others using Europeana data independently

We believe Culture transforms lives

We are a community of > 2500 members who contribute data,

technology, knowledge and business opportunities

A network of cultural innovators

Europeana as multi-sided platform

DM2E perfectly fits

DM2E benefits for researchers

More material in Europeana relevant for digital humanities

Cf Doron’s talk

DM2E benefits for researchers

Better tools - annotation

Fitting a scholarly model of researcher activities

Cf. Christian and Steffen’s talk later

Pundit http://dm2e.eu/digital-humanities/

Infrastructure R&D

Workflows for data aggregation

Linked Open Data publication

Contextualization and provenance

Cf Kai’s talkhttp://onto.dm2e.eu/omnom

Metadata Enrichment

Gathering/linking existing semantic, multilingual data

Allowing different semantic grains

Idea behind the Europeana Data Model Providers provide data close to original models

Using mappings to more interoperable level

statement at generic level

statement at specific level

Different semantic grains

EDM enables the definition of extensions, “applications profiles”

Based on best practices from specific communities

Specialization of EDM in DM2E - Example

Slide by Steffen Hennicke

Innovating as a network

Cf Lieke’s talkhttp://openglam.orghttp://openhumanitiesawards.orghttp://judaicalink.org

Thank you!

Antoine Isaac

antoine.isaac@europeana.eu

@EuropeanaEU

Some images by Elco van Staveren, Denkschets