OpenUp!Opening up the European Natural History Heritage for EUROPEANA

Walter G. Berendsohn, Project CoordinatorBotanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem,

Freie Universität Berlin

EUROPEANA – The European Virtual Library

www.europeana.eu/

The OpenUp! Consortium

Museum of Natural History

Project overview

• Start date: 1 March 2011, 36 months

• Work packages led by NM Prague, RMCA Tervuren, NHM Vienna, IBSAS Bratislava, MfN Berlin, NHM London, AIT Graz, BGBM Berlin (Coordinator)

• Consortium: 23 partners from 12 European countries

• GBIF involvement: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany (3), Slovak Republic; CETAF (BioCASE), ETI, SMEBD, Species 2000.

• EC funding: EURO 3 500 000 [80%]

Background

Images: BGBM, MRAC, MfN Berlin, RBG Kew, J. Holstein,

Multimedia objects from the natural history domain are still dramatically underrepre-sented in EUROPEANA!

Background

Images: BGBM, MRAC, MfN Berlin, RBG Kew, J. Holstein,

Multimedia objects from the natural history domain are still dramatically underrepre-sented in EUROPEANA! and in

GBIF !

For Europeana, OpenUp! will provide

• a single access point to distributed non-bibliographic multimedia content in the natural history domain

• validation mechanisms to ensure compliance with EUROPEANA standards.

• sustained item-level access by integration with existing networks in the domain (i.e. GBIF, BioCASE and CETAF).

• metadata enrichment by means of multilingual metadata vocabularies and thesauri for natural history data (e.g. names) to enhance cross-linking of Europeana content.

• a mechanism to extend participation in content provision.

For the natural history data community, OpenUp! will provide

• 80% funding for 275 person months of qualified staff time for data cleaning and quality control.

• increased relevance of our data by inclusion in EUROPEANA.• tools for quality control of species names and other data.• help to further implement BioCASE technologies and thus

data provision for GBIF.• funding for a multilingual index of common names.• technical solutions for shared but distributed information

infrastructures.

Content made available for EUROPEANA

High quality object images 881 438

Natural history artwork 119 100

Animal sound files 21 350

Movies 1 200

Other 38 000

Total, at least 1 061 088

Europeana Output (mock-up)

Global Context of OpenUp!

OpenUp! Data Processing

WP7 “Extension of the Network”

• Offer a helpdesk facility for provider and users within and beyond the Consortium partners

• Provide access to existing and newly produced documentation and tutorials for the services of OpenUp!

• Formulate the procedures and outreach strategies for adding associated partners to enlarge the provider community beyond the current consortium members

• Lead: MRAC Tervuren, main partner: GBIF France, further partners GBIF-Belgium, GBIF-Finland, GBIF-Denmark, GBIF-Germany (ZFMK) and the GBIF Secretariat

Thank you!