1 Pan-European metadata for cultural content ePSIplus Thematic Meeting Madrid, 12 September 2008 Rob Davies

2 “For the users it is not important whether the sources of knowledge and experience are kept by archives, libraries or museums, but to get access to the sources they want, and to be able to use these sources across types of sources and sectors of institutions.” “For the users it is not important whether the sources of knowledge and experience are kept by archives, libraries or museums, but to get access to the sources they want, and to be able to use these sources across types of sources and sectors of institutions.”

3 Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) m m m Flagship project of i2010 Flagship project of i2010 Single European Information Space for an open and competitive internal market for services Single European Information Space for an open and competitive internal market for services Letter by six Heads of State and Government to the European Commission (2005) Letter by six Heads of State and Government to the European Commission (2005) Advocated creation of a virtual European library Advocated creation of a virtual European library Aiming to make Europe’s cultural and scientific records accessible to all Aiming to make Europe’s cultural and scientific records accessible to all Positive response from the Commission Positive response from the Commission Outline strategy: Communication "i2010: Digital Libraries" Outline strategy: Communication "i2010: Digital Libraries" Communication on ‘access to scientific information in the digital age’ (2007) Communication on ‘access to scientific information in the digital age’ (2007)

4 Focus of the DLI Make Europe's rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use online Make Europe's rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use online for work, leisure and/or study for work, leisure and/or study books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc Combine multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models Combine multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models Two strands: Two strands: Cultural heritage: Cultural heritage: build a common European Digital Library build a common European Digital Library Scientific heritage: Scientific heritage: ensure current and future access for research and innovation purposes. ensure current and future access for research and innovation purposes.

5 The European Library (TEL) Collaborative platform and web service of 48 CENL national libraries Collaborative platform and web service of 48 CENL national libraries Managed by The European Library Office, Royal Library of The Netherlands Managed by The European Library Office, Royal Library of The Netherlands Free searching, object level, standardised metadat, multilingual access Free searching, object level, standardised metadat, multilingual access Sequence of projects Sequence of projects TEL TEL TEL-ME-MOR ( ) TEL-ME-MOR ( ) EDL project ( ) EDL project ( ) TELplus ( ) TELplus ( ) Each bringing in more national libraries and advancing technically Each bringing in more national libraries and advancing technically

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7 A structure for EDL? EDL National Digital Library ACE Film Archive X EurbicaNational Archive 1 MICHAEL TEL NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 Museum X Archive X National Archive 2 Film Archive 1 Film Archive 2 Film Archive 3 National Archive 3 Library X Museum A Archive A Library A

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9  Thematic Network  Establish trust between the institutions  Create the organisational structure for a European Digital Library (Europeana)  Tackle domain interoperability issues (standards)  Propose a practical implementation of the European Digital Library  Item or object level  Make recommendations for future research Europeana.Net (2007-9) Europeana.Net (2007-9)

10 EuropeanaLocal ( ) Digital content held by regional and local museums, libraries and archives Digital content held by regional and local museums, libraries and archives Make over 20 million items available initially Make over 20 million items available initially Local content infrastructure for harvesting and indexing by Europeana and other services Local content infrastructure for harvesting and indexing by Europeana and other services Establish easy processes for making content available Establish easy processes for making content available OAI-PMH repositories OAI-PMH repositories Europe wide network of repositories/ aggregations Europe wide network of repositories/ aggregations Map to Europeana Metadata Application Profile Map to Europeana Metadata Application Profile Local vocabularies ‘skosified’ Local vocabularies ‘skosified’ Content become part of integrated Europeana service Content become part of integrated Europeana service

11 Other eContentplus projects supporting Europeana ATHENA (museums) ATHENA (museums) European Film Gateway European Film Gateway ARROW (public domain database) ARROW (public domain database) APENet (national archives) APENet (national archives) And now…….Europeana V1, EuropeanaConnects etc And now…….Europeana V1, EuropeanaConnects etc After eContentplus …CIP Policy Support Progamme After eContentplus …CIP Policy Support Progamme Pilot actions Pilot actions January 2009 call January 2009 call 100 million EUR 100 million EUR Will include PSI? Will include PSI?

12 Europeana content holders Content level (infinite) Local level (1000s) National level (10s) European level (1) European Digital Library Virtual Information Space National Archives National Libraries Aggregated repositories Archives Items & Collections Libraries Items & Collections Museums Items & Collections

13 Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Item metadata URL Collection metadata Object Reuse and Exchange Object data OAI-PMH Repository & Toolkit Metadata storage Object data model for storage of metadata according to a joint EDLocal application profile Data migration toolkit Tools to facilitate migration of metadata from existing object data model to repository including harmonization Web Service GetRecord, Identify, ListIdentifiers, ListMetaDataFormats, ListRecords, ListSets

14 Metadata enrichment Object data Persons and roles metadata Topical metadata Geography and coverage metadata Temporal metadata Mainly manually entered but also process text to look for person names Similar technology as is applied by search engines, extracting keywords and assigning relevance according to frequency Coverage is specified in any number of ways such as geographical names, administrative entities and coordinates. Need geo-metadata Difficult to get disambiguous temporal metadata but possible

15 Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE) Prototype launched to European Commission, Council of Ministers, 19/20 November Prototype launched to European Commission, Council of Ministers, 19/20 November Metadata defined to match specific functionality of prototype Metadata defined to match specific functionality of prototype used for indexing, display used for indexing, display who, what, where, when who, what, where, when advanced search advanced search facets search refinement facets search refinement timeline browse timeline browse full search results display full search results display browsing by format type (text, stiil image, moving image, sound) browsing by format type (text, stiil image, moving image, sound) Full text search Full text search

16 Europeana prototype metadata No Europeana application profile proposed yet No Europeana application profile proposed yet Data used with existing schemas Data used with existing schemas So far received in So far received in TEL application profile TEL application profile DC (simple, qualified) DC (simple, qualified) MODS MODS METS METS EAD EAD proprietary proprietary Mapping and conversion done in-house at Europeana Mapping and conversion done in-house at Europeana

17 ESE… Mixture of simple DC plus some qualifiers + 2 new elements Mixture of simple DC plus some qualifiers + 2 new elements ‘Shown by’ (ie URI) ‘Shown by’ (ie URI) ‘Shown at’a way of showing object in full context (needed e.g. for archives, ‘treasures’ which may be embedded not just jpeg) ‘Shown at’a way of showing object in full context (needed e.g. for archives, ‘treasures’ which may be embedded not just jpeg) Mandatory Mandatory Shown by (URI of link to digital object) Shown by (URI of link to digital object) Source (holder of object) Source (holder of object) Date Date Identifier of the original object Identifier of the original object ’User tag’: public tags created by registered users ’User tag’: public tags created by registered users

18 Future steps Europeana VI (new project) delivers first release early 2010 Europeana VI (new project) delivers first release early 2010 Institutions/aggregators use ESE v2 till then Institutions/aggregators use ESE v2 till then Interest in object models for Europeana V1 Interest in object models for Europeana V1 Complex objects – ORE – needs pure metadata Complex objects – ORE – needs pure metadata Surrogates Surrogates Abstractions Abstractions Landing page Landing page Data may need to be reindexed by Europeana Data may need to be reindexed by Europeana Scalability requires machine transformation either at local aggregator or central level Scalability requires machine transformation either at local aggregator or central level

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