Athena WP4 : State of the work Michael Culture association Marie-Véronique Leroi (MCC) Johann Holland (Dédale) Roma, 17 th July 2009 eContentplus

- Context Reminder - Survey first results - Current actions - Deliverable D4.1 - Coming actions - Agenda - Discussion OUTLINE

5 main phases: Organisation and survey Evaluation of existing resources Standards and SKOSification Recommendations/guidelines Support of the WP7 – Integration into Europeana ACTIONS

13 institutions in the WG: - Royal Museums of Art and History (BE) - Roxanne Wyns - SPK (DE) – Axel Ermert - NBA (FI) - Hellenic Ministry of Culture (GR)‏ - Effie Patsatzi / Metaxia Tsipopoulou - University of Patras (GR) - Neumann (HU)‏ - MiBAC (IT)‏ - State agency “Culture Information Systems” (LV)‏ - ICIMSS (PL)‏ - CIMEC (RO)‏ - Collections Trust (UK) - Gordon McKenna - Sluzba za premicno dediscino in muzeje (SL) – Maja Oven - MCC (FR) - Marie-Véronique Leroi WP4 | Expert Group

WP4 | The survey Started the 20 th of March Aim: collect information about terminology resources used by the museums for describing their collections One form per terminology All kinds of terminology resources (terminologies, thesauri, classifications, …) Description of in-house resources and international resources as well

WP4 | The survey 7 main sections  Basic information and contact details for the terminology  Organisation's website (particularly any multilinguality)  Detailed information about the terminology  Use of the terminology  Multilinguality of the terminology  Availability of the terminology  Audience for the terminology

WP4 | The survey Results: 68 forms filled in on line 16 countries have answered (over ) 1 country (Cyprus) does not use terminology resources at all 7 countries have declared only one terminology Mainly for the use of museums professionnals and users and Higher education students

WP4 | The survey Figures calculation rules: Basis of % = non-skipped answers Reliability: *** good: skipped answers / non-skipped < 15 % ** medium: 15% < sa / nsa < 30% * bad: sa / nsa > 30%

WP4 | The survey Some figures: 43 % = multilingual (***) 67 % = SKOS compliant (*) 50 % = DC compliant (***) 16 % = RDF compliant (*) 38 % = Thesaurus (***) major feature= broader/narrower term (61%) (*) related term (42%) (*) top term (58%) (*)

WP4 | related projects European projects MICHAEL MINERVA STERNA => Israel (Dov) MILE => SPK (Axel) HEREIN => HMC (Effie)...

WP4 | related projects European projects TREBLECLEF=> Mibac (Giuliana) CACAO => Mibac (Giuliana) MACS => ? APENET

WP4 | Contacts in Europe Europeana Thought Lab (University of Amsterdam) EuropeanaLocal : results from the survey EuropeanaConnect: – Clustergroup meeting for technical WP – Contact with Worpackage leaders : WP1 (terminology): Stefan Gradmann WP2 (multilinguality) : Vivien Petras

WP4 | The survey Current actions (summer): to re-contact mute countries to check with one-terminology-countries if it is over to ask precisions for skipped questions (to improve reliability) to gather information from other surveys and projects to consolidate the statistics to produce a qualitative study to finalize the D4.1

I/ Introduction Objective and goals II/ Remarks Methodology and types of terminologies III/ State of the art (terminology resources) Presentation Draft Plan for the D4.1

IV/ Inventory and description of the existing resources Presentation of the sources of information WP3 survey (presentation/results) EuropeanaLocal survey Minerva network European projects (Europeana, Europeana Group projects and other European projects) WP4 Survey Draft Plan for the D4.1

V/ Conclusions Global Synthesis of the whole survey results Work proposal for establishing recommendations toward museums VI/ Annexes Terminology resources survey List of resources List of institutions Feedabck from each other European project Draft Plan for the D4.1

SKOSification of Terminologies SKOS – Simple Knowledge Organization System W3C Recommendation Express terminologies in an special RDF Schema Close to WP1/WP2 of EuropeanaConnect Semi- Automatic Tools

SKOS Simple Knowledge ORGANIZATION SYSTEM concepts are documented, linked, merged with other data, composed, integrated and published on the Web CONCEPTSidentified 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 SCHEMEScompiled 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 schemesmap concepts from different schemes using the properties exactMatch, broadMatch, narrowMatch and relatedMatch Jul 2, 2009

WP4 | SKOS

WP4 | Standards and SKOSification Coming actions: Identification of terminology production/managing tool (e.g. ThManager) Identification of a limited area Selection of 3 languages (minimum) First version of a common Athena terminology in SKOS Set up of a Web access to the mapping tool (WP7?) Iterative refinement by enlargement of test domains

WP4 | Agenda Many dates D4.1: delivery of first results to the commission (1 st September) Multilinguality workshop of EuropeanaConnect (Trento, 9 th September) (WP leaders) First version of the Athena terminology (on the area defined) (by the end of 2009) Recommendations & guidelines (July 2010) End of the project (April 2011)

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