"Subclassing and Composition – A Pythonic Tour of Trade-Offs", Hynek Schlawack
Breaking the Waves
1. Breaking the Waves
Alastair Dunning
(The European Library / Europeana)
Discovery Summit
London, Feb 2013
@alastairdunning
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6. “There is a tsunami of data that is crashing onto
the beaches of the civilized world. This is a tidal
wave of unrelated, growing data formed in bits
and bytes, coming in an unorganized,
uncontrolled, incoherent cacophony of foam….
we see graphic designers and government
officials, all getting their shoes wet and slowly
submerging in the dense trough of stuff…. they
walk stupidly into the water, smiling—a false
smile of confidence and control. The tsunami is a
wall of data—data produced at a greater and
greater speed … in amounts that double, it
seems, with each sunset ....
10. Europeana - Europe’s cultural heritage portal
• 26m (Feb 2013) metadata
records from 2,200 European
galleries, museums, archives and
libraries
• Books, newspapers, journals,
letters, diaries, archival papers...
Paintings, maps, drawings,
photographs… Music, spoken
word, radio broadcasts…
• Only links to digitised content
• 31 languages
• Started in 2007
• Based in National Library of
Netherlands
11. The European Library (TEL)
Europe’s library aggregator
• Centrally indexes 115m
bibliographic records, plus 16m
digital links
• 48 National Libraries of Europe
• Plus 19 research libraries
• Links to digitised content and
bibliographic records at
libraries
• Started in 1990s - ‘Mother’ of
Europeana. Now aggregates
content for Europeana
• Also hosted in National Library
of Netherlands
12. National Museums
Aggregator
Libraries
Film & Sound
National
Aggregator Europeana
Archaeological
Heritage
Other
Archives
Cultural
Heritage
13. National ATHENA
The Aggregator
European
Library
Euro. Film
Gateway
Culture
Grid (UK) Europeana
CARARE
ApeNet Other
Aggregators
14. National ATHENA
The Aggregator
European
Library
Euro. Film
Gateway
Culture
Grid (UK) Europeana
CARARE
ApeNet Other
Aggregators
15. Italian
Spanish
National Libraries
National Library
French
National Library German National Library
British Library
and another
43 national libraries National
The Aggregator
European
Library
19 research libraries
and RLUK
Culture
Grid (UK) Europeana
23. Are we making
progress?
And what is impeding progress ?
24. The European Library to
release
>115m bibliographic
records to be released as
CC0 this year (2013)
API and Linked Data
to be published this Working with RLUK
year (2013) as well to release members’
metadata as linked
data