Interoperability of library metadata within a single service

Valentine Charles, The European Library

During two years

With regard to enhance the searchability of library data The Europeana Libraries project has….

Looked at lot of library data

UNIMARC

Understood the Europeana Data Model

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Advertised our work

Main outcomes

• Reached consensus on the alignment of library data with EDM.• Feedback has helped Europeana in their implementation of

EDM

• Implementation of the EDM conversion with the main European Library service • Will allow us to gradually improve the quality of the data

• Provision of content described using the Europeana model• Will maintain interoperability with Europeana • Will improve the searchability of library content in Europeana

Thank you !

valentine.charles@kb.nl