"Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects" by Hugo Manguinhas, Antoine Isaac. DARIAH-EU Workshop on Practices and Context in Contemporary Annotation Activities, Hamburg, October 29-30, 2015.

1. MODELLING ANNOTATIONS
FOR EUROPEANA AND
RELATED PROJECTS
Hugo Manguinhas, Antoine Isaac
DARIAH-WS: Practices and Context in Contemporary Annotation Activities

2. Modelling annotations:
Web Annotation Data Model
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects
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3. Overview of the Projects
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects
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• Europeana V3
• HistoryPin: Simple tagging and object linking
• SEALINCmedia
• Acurator: Media annotations and moderation (assigning trust to annotations)
• DM2E
• Pundit toolset: Text and Media annotations, Linking
• PATHs project
• Semantic enrichment
• eSounds
• TunePal + TheSession: object linking
• Pundit: object and metadata annotation, object linking, media annotation, annotations
of other annotations (moderation, rating)

4. HistoryPin.org@Ev3
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• A platform for people to upload historical photos and
stories, building and sharing collections of their local
history.
• EC project: Europeana V3
• Two collections from Europeana were used: WW1 and
1989
• First bi-directional flow of annotations between
HistoryPin.org and Europeana
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects

5. HistoryPin.org@Ev3
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oa:Annotation
#Anno2
edm:ProvidedCHO
http://data.europeana.eu/item/...
oa:hasTarget
oa:hasBodyoa:Annotation
#Anno1
oa:hasBody
oa:commenting
oa:motivatedBy
oa:tagging
oa:motivatedBy
oa:hasTarget
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects

6. Capturing Provenance for
HistoryPin.org@Ev3
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oa:Annotation
#Anno1
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects
prov:SoftwareAgent
http://www.historypin.org
foaf:Person
https://www.historypin.org/en/person/55376/
When was created in
HistoryPin.org
oa:Annotation
http://www.historypin.org/map/#!/dialog:177232/
When was sent to
Europeana
oa:annotatedAt
oa:generatedBy
oa:annotatedBy
oa:equivalentTo
prov:wasDerivedFrom ?
oa:generatedAt

7. Accurator
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• Dutch project SEALINCmedia
• VU Amsterdam, TU Delft, CWI…
• Annotating content and annotations
• E.g. Prints about birds or monuments
• Nichesourcing: crowdsourcing annotations by experts in the
field (e.g. birdwatchers, retired historians), enabling
moderation
• Linked Data-based tools, using controlled vocabularies
(taxonomies)
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects

8. Annotating images using Accurator
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oa:Annotation
#Anno1
oa:SemanticTag
#tag
oa:hasBody
skos:Concept
http://purl.org/collections/birds/
species-agropsar_sturninus
skos:related
oa:FragmentSelector
http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.234927#
xywh=100,100,300,300
oa:hasTarget
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects
oa:tagging
oa:motivatedBy

9. Assigning trust using Accurator
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Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects
oa:Annotation
#Anno1
oa:Annotation
#Anno2
oa:hasTarget
oa:SemanticTag
#moderation-tag
oa:hasBody
oa:SemanticTag
#tag
oa:hasBody
foaf:Person
#user1
foaf:Person
#user2
oa:annotatedBy
oa:annotatedBy
oa:moderating
oa:motivatedBy

10. Pundit@DM2E
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• EC project Digital Manuscripts to Europeana
• Net7, Humboldt University Berlin
• Scholarly annotations
• Following carefully researched scholarly primitives
• Two main digital humanities experiments
• Wittgenstein Brown Book and WAB ontology
• Burckhardt Correspondence
• Using controlled vocabularies
• DM2E data model and possibly adhoc vocabularies

11. Pundit@DM2E
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects
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oa:Annotation
#Anno1
oa:FragmentSelector
http://... #xpointer(start-point(string-range(... ... )))
oa:hasTarget
trig:Graph
#Graph
rdf:Statement
oa:hasBody
...
http://wittgensteinsource.org/...
pundit:hasPageContext

12. Pundit’s Notebook
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects
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oa:Annotation
#Anno1
pundit:Notebook
http://purl.org/pundit/as/notebook/
969c4157
pundit:isIncludedIn
pundit:includes
Notebook 2013-01-14
16:42:05
Contains all annotations
created by an user
2013-01-14T16:42:05
rdfs:label
dct:created
foaf:Person
https://www.historypin.org/en/person/55376/
dct:creatoroa:annotatedBy
boolean
true
pundit:public

13. PATHS enrichments
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• EC project Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage Spaces
• Univ. Sheffield, MDR Partners…
• Automatic enrichment from metadata to help find objects that fit
(e.g. education-focused) pathways into CH collections
• Using NLP techniques
• Linking to Wikipedia, DBpedia and specialized controlled
vocabularies
• Represent and exchange all relevant data about enrichments
• From a specific format to a more interoperable one,
compatible with the Europeana Data Model

14. Modelling PATHS enrichments
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oa:SemanticTag
#tag
oa:hasBody
oa:Annotation
#Anno1
oa:tagging
oa:motivatedBy
0.015
paths:confidence
paths:backgroundLinkMotivation
https://dbpedia.org/resource/Bartolomeo_Cristofori
oa:SpecificResource
#anchor
oa:TextPositionSelector
skos:related
oa:hasSelector
oa:hasTarget
0 10
oa:start oa:end
oa:hasSource
...
oa:motivatedBy
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects

15. Modelling motivations
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oa:Annotation
#Anno1
oa:Motivation
oa:tagging
skos:broaderoa:Motivation
paths:backgroundLinkMotivation
oa:motivatedBy
skos:ConceptScheme
oa:MotivationScheme
Skos:ConceptScheme
NewScheme
skos:inScheme skos:inScheme
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects

16. Conclusions
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• Representing and exchanging annotations is relevant for
many applications in the Europeana Network
• It is still work in progress
• Web Annotation gives a good interoperable base
• Even when the core WA model will be standardized there
will still be a need for best practices in specific domains
• We are interested in what comes from this community!
Modelling annotations for Europeana and related projects

17. 29 October 2015