EuropeanaPhotography ICT-PSP Project no Europeana Overlegplatform Vlaanderen MSK Gent, 7 juni

EuropeanaPhotography 1 February 2012 – 31 January 2015 Over 430,000 vintage photographs: selection, digitization, enrichment, ingestion into Europeana Courtesy of Arbejdermuseet

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EuropeanaPhotography 19 partners 13 EU countries OrganisationCountry ALINARI 24 ORE SPA ITALY IMAGNO Brandstätter Images KG AUSTRIA KONINKLIJKE MUSEA VOOR KUNST EN GESCHIEDENIS BELGIUM KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN BELGIUM National Academic Library Information System BULGARIA JP/POLITIKENS HUS AS DENMARK ARBEJDERMUSEET MED ARBEJDERBEVAEGELSENS BIBLIOTEK OG ARKIV DENMARK SAEML PARISIENNE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE FRANCE United Archives Gesellschaft fur Archivmanagement und Verwertung mbH GERMANY NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS GREECE Promoter di Masi Pietro & C S.N.C. ITALY Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche ITALY STOWARZYSZENIE MIEDZYNARODOWE CENTRUM ZARZADZANIA INFORMACJA POLAND Muzeum Historii Fotografii im. Walerego Rzewuskiego w Krakowie POLAND LIETUVOS DAILES MUZIEJUS REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA DIVADELNY USTAV SLOVAK REPUBLIC Departament de Cultura - Generalitat de Catalunya SPAIN AYUNTAMIENTO DE GIRONA SPAIN TOPHAM PARTNERS LLP UNITED KINGDOM

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Content Seminar Courtesy of KU Leuven Courtesy of Parisienne de Photo

Content Seminar: Leuven, April 2012 Share knowledge about: content selection methodology for identification of masterpieces Workflow: best practices care, handling and long term preservation of original items Content Seminar Courtesy of Parisienne de Photo

Themes and collections Selection criteria - Masterpiece quality & Impact >>> Definition of masterpiece: A work done with extraordinary skill, especially a work of fine art, craft or intellect that is an exceptionally great achievement. To some, this means the best piece of work by a particular artist or craftsperson. Courtesy of Polfoto

Themes and collections Selection criteria -General interest and appeal -Complementarity with existing material in Europeana -Synergy between the provider’s collections

– selection, assessment and prioritisation – project planning, management and tracking – preparation of originals for digitisation – descriptive and technical metadata – capture and editing – submission of digital resources – data collection and management – assessment and evaluation Digitization Tasks

Archival preparation of originals Preservation preparation of originals Digitization Guidelines & digitization activities Digitization metadata

2. DIGITISATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF EP

The workshop Digitization systems and procedures in photographic image archives by CITM (Polytechnics University of Catalonia), organized by CRDIDigitization systems and procedures in photographic image archives Girona, May overview of the available systems for original photographic materials digitization -procedures in order to obtain the best results in terms of image quality and fidelity to the original -attended by 22 representatives of 13 partners in Europeana Photography TRAINING EVENT Training

Technical partners (KMKG - NTUA) > Development of tools for enrichment and ingestion: The EuropeanaPhotography multilingual vocabulary The MINT mapping tool Metadata Courtesy of Nalis

The EuropeanaPhotography multilingual vocabulary A survey was conducted with the content providers to analyze the use of controlled vocabularies in each institution, and the underlying technical possibilities of each one’s database program On the basis of the survey, the vocabulary was finalized and translated in 12 languages Vocabulary Courtesy of Lithuanian Museums

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The MINT mapping tool Using the MINT technology, a user-friendly platform was developed for transforming the content providers’ metadata to the EuropeanaPhotography intermediate schema (based on LIDO), and to enrich them through the mapping tool with the EuropeanaPhotography Vocabulary. Metadata Mapping Courtesy of MHF

Metadata transformation & ingestion: steps Intermediate Format Selection [Standards Examined: VRA C ORE – CIDOC - DUBLIN CORE – SPECTRUM - MARC21 - IPTC – LIDO – CARARE - METS - EAD] [LIDO:- Stable metadata standard developed by the consortium of Athena – Rich enough to represent all the required elements as those were set by the Europeana Photography providers in the content seminar – Supports vocabularies (WP4 for the enrichment of metadata) – Has been successfully used as the intermediate schema in other projects like Linked Heritage and Judaica – Well documented and it uses an open license] XML Export [The providers can export their metadata in XML or in CSV, formats that are supported by the MINT Mapping Tool] Source to Intermediate: MINT – [ : Organization and user level access rights and role assignment. – Collection and record management (XML serialisation). – OAI-PMH based harvesting. – Visual mapping editor for the XSLT language. – Transformation and previewing (XML and HTML)] Intermediate to EDM & Ingestion [OAI-PMH protocol – that is used for the delivery of content to Europeana - is already supported by MINT - Mapping of LIDO to Europeana Data Model (currently ESE is supported) - 12,319 items ready for - publication]

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Dissemination platforms

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The indicators for year 1 were successfully achieved: Expected Achieved IndicatorObjective/expected resultIndicator nameYear 1Year 2Year 3 1No of items digitisedDigitisation No of items enrichedEnrichment No of multilingual items Multilingual support No of Europeana compliant records Transformation No of items on Europeana Ingestion process No of individual hits on Europeana Photography website Dissemination /Sustainability >1.000>5.000> No of presentations and papers in European and international conferences Dissemination /Sustainability Up to 5Up to 8Up to No of visitors to the Europeana Photography exhibition in Florence (15 days of opening) Dissemination /Sustainability expected visitors during the whole period Progress Courtesy of United Archives

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EuropeanaPhotography ICT-PSP Project no Europeana Overlegplatform Vlaanderen MSK Gent, 7 juni