Europeana Network Association AGM 2016 - 8 November - Operation Direct: Reinventing Europeana’s Aggregation

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Operation Direct:Reinventing Europeana’s AggregationPavel Kats, Europeana

[email protected], @PavelKatsSašo Zagoranski, Semantika

[email protected], @SasoZagoranski


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Agenda● Introduction or Why Innovate?

● Problem Space

● Operation Direct: the Vision

● Strategies (and a demo)

● Use Cases

● What Next

● Q&A


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Introductionor why innovate?

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But is this at all possible?


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How platforms grow? Spotify


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How platforms grow? AirBNB


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Problem Spaceor why can’t we now grow as fast?

Aggregator Europeana

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Icons by Sergey Novoselyov, Noun Project


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Operation Direct: Task re-invent the process so that...

● ... it is quick, transparent and efficient, and creates a

connected ecosystem

● … data quality is not compromised (improved?)

● … it makes the best use of technology

● ... we offer flexible publishing solutions to institutions

● … keep previous investments made by Europeana?


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STRATEGIES


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Strategy 1: API-first approach

● Scalable and Modern Aggregation platform ● Symmetric EDM-based Read/Write API

● Easy to use for developers


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Strategy 2: Connect to existing data

● Many organizations are already sharing their data using standards

• APIs, IIIF, …

• APEf, DDB, …

● We wanted to utilize these existing sources

● Making Europeana connect to you

● Improve aggregation experience with near-real-time updates


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Strategy 3: Get close to source

● Integrate publishing process into CMS systems

● Make it easy for cultural heritage institutions to work with

Europeana by utilizing existing CMS solutions

● Improve data quality by enabling data-partners to focus on

the data, rather than the workflow

● Scale the number of data-partners


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DEMO


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Strategy 4: Easy interoperability

● Full compatibility with Europeana Collections

○ Compatibility API for search, records, …

● Compatibility with the current aggregation stack

● Real-time search index updates

○ Index updates as records are added

● Enables gradual transition to the new system


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USE CASES


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Feedback: SMK, Denmark● took 2 hours from the start of the project, before SMK

was able to complete manually the first import.

● the SMK could have potentially imported its whole

collection to Europeana after only two full-days of work.

● all in all, importing SMK’s data through Operation Direct’s

interface has been a smooth, easy and straightforward

process.


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DigitaltMuseum, Norway● the Europeana Operation Direct API is simple to use, yet

powerful.

● The new API allows us to directly upload objects to

Europeana as they are updated in the DigitaltMuseum

ecosystem. It makes it easy to discover and fix problems at object level.

● We have implemented the infrastructure needed to

integrate the new API with DigitaltMuseum. We could be

production ready "fairly soon".


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Atria, the Netherlands● we’ve been very happy to lend a hand on the idea of

Operation Direct;

● the tier-model, flexibility, simplicity and direct approach

gives a lot of convenience and control to a cross-

domain institute as Atria


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● Report the results and the learnings

● Decide how to Integrate them into the core development

● Update the product roadmap accordingly

● Stay tuned! (http://pro.europeana.eu/page/operation-

direct)

● (and talk to us)

What next?

http://pro.europeana.eu/page/operation-direct


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Vision

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Updated February 2016


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Use cases● DigitaltMuseum:

http://operation-direct.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?q=dataOwner:digitaltmuseum.org ● National Museum in Warsaw:

http://operation-direct.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?q=dataOwner%3AMuzeum+Narodowe+w+Warszawie

● Archiveshttp://operation-direct.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?q=dataOwner%3ANationaal+Archief&qf%5B%5D=thumbnail%3Atrue

● SMK

http://operation-direct.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?q=dataOwner:digitaltmuseum.org

http://operation-direct.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?q=dataOwner:Muzeum+Narodowe+w+Warszawie

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Europeana Network Association AGM 2016 - 8 November - Operation Direct: Reinventing Europeana’s Aggregation