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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
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
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
• 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,
