Status EuropeanaConnect May 2010

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Introduction

EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting
Berlin, May 10–12, 2010
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library

Welcome to the All-Staff Meeting!

Introduction

• This is a quite big meeting….

• This is the end of successful
project year…
• Project established as largest
single Europeana technology provider

• Goals of the All-Staff Meeting:
• Get up-to-date about the different strands of work
• Open the “work silos” and profit from synergies


Meeting structure

• Plenary sessions
• Update on achievements
in all work packages
• Demonstrations of project results
• Updates on Europeana and sync
with Europeana developments
• Administrative issues
• Dissemination and project marketing
• Parallel sessions
• All-Developers meetings
• Work packages meetings
• Inter-WP meetings for synchronisation

Status EuropeanaConnect
EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting,
Berlin, 10–12 May 2010

Looking foward to three productive
and pleasant days!


Status of EuropeanaConnect

EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting
Berlin, May 10–12, 2010


A unusual project …

• EuropeanaConnect is a unusual European project:
• We don't only have to deliver according to our Description of Work
• But also according to the release planning and requirements of
Europeana

• In the end: we will be measured for our success in delivering sustainable
products for Europeana
• This is what will remain from the project (hopefully…)
• In contrast to many other projects, most EuropeanaConnect deliverables
are not prototypes but should be production-ready components
• Requires a very different project culture and a different approach to
planning!



Rhine and Danube…



Complexity and synchronisation

• Main challenge in year 1:
• Synchronise the project with the requirements and planning of Europeana

• Europeana Techical Requirements:
• Use cases
• Coding requirements
• Development environment
• Release schedule

• Europeana Business and Policy Requirements:
• Branding and marketing
• Data Provider Agreements (Licensing Framework)
• User Generated Content Policy (Annotations)
• User Testing


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Key Objectives of EuropeanaConnect

1. Provide a critical mass of audio content to Europeana and
implement an audio-enabling infrastructure
2. Build the Semantic Layer for Europeana
3. Facilitate multilingual access to Europeana
4. Develop novel access channels to Europeana (like mobile access)
5. Provide tools and methodologies for user-driven development and
for testing and evaluation
6. Build value-added services (like e-Books-on-Demand)
7. Implement key infrastructure components (like OAI-PMH infrastructure)
8. Build the Europeana Licensing Framework
9. Enable stronger and wider collaborative networking


Achievements in Year 1

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Add the music dimension
to Europeana


New audio content for Europeana

• EuropeanaConnect will add the music dimension to
Europeana
• WP6, lead by RBB
• Five audio archives are consortium members
• Continuous approach to involvement of new audio archives for the
entire duration of the project



Main strands of work / Highlights | 1

• Europeana Audio Aggregation Platform (AAP)
• Based on already existing DISMARC portal and infrastructure
• Used for harvesting, analysing and storing audio metadata
• Mapping adjusted, improved connectivity and more storage space on server
(used by audio content providers)
• New audio integrated by upload and by links into the AAP
• Data provision for Europeana using OAI-PMH
• How to start?
• Audio Starter Kit on EuropeanaConnect Website
http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-and-resources.php
• Describes process of providing audio content to Europeana
via the AAP



Main strands of work / Highlights | 2

• Already 41.000 items aggregated from 100 collections in 16 countries
• Most items already available via Europeana
• Estimated 150.000 – 200.000 music tracks by project end
• Continuous dissemination, Newsletters, personal contacts etc.
• Targeting at and in contact with more than 300 potential partners



Challenges / Next Steps

Challenges:
• Uncertainty about IPR issues underlying most communications
• Approached by delivering necessary information
• Audio archives extremely hesitant towards joint operations
• Answered by various activities
• Only now Europeana Data Provider Agreement available

Next steps:
• Workshop in September
• Active newsletter publishing
• Handbook for content owners under preparation
• Work with the provider agreement


Build the Europeana Semantic Layer

• WP1, lead by HUB
• Organise Europeana data space as network of interlinked resources for
object discovery and further use
• Prerequisite for integration of and with other semantically aware WWW
services

• Build a repository of harvested semantic resources
• Vocabularies, classification schemes …
• Convert data into semantic representations
• Semantic processing will mostly use SKOS
• Semantically enrich Europeana content by mapping it to these semantic
representations



Main strands of work / Highlights

• Survey of controlled and structured vocabularies among
Europeana data providers
• Successful migration of selected vocabularies to SKOS
• Specification of semantics functionality
• Checking with selected expert users
• Substantial contribution to the Europeana Data Model (EDM)
• Specification and stabilisation of the EDM



Challenges and next steps

Challenges:
• Triggering the EDM development
• Getting commitment for an EDM-based planning

Next steps:
• Contribute to Europeana v1.0, making the EDM and related
functionality part of the 'Danube' specifications
• Continue work on data migration and (semi-)automated
object contextualisation



Multilingual Access to Europeana

• WP2, lead by HUB
• Provide multilingual access capabilities for Europeana
• Users should be able to find relevant content even if its not described in their
native / preferred language

• Build Europeana Repository of Language Resources
• Tools for multilingual mapping of controlled vocabularies
• Suite of translation services for querying and browsing
• Supported set of languages:
• Start with English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish
• Expand with Dutch, Hungarian, Portuguese, Swedish




• Report on User Preferences and Information Retrieval
Scenarios for Multilingual Access in Europeana
• Specification and development of the Europeana Language
Resources Repository
• Currently in review
• Multilingual mapping of controlled vocabularies
• Languages and vocabularies for selection



Challenges / Next steps

Challenges:
• Data gathering
• Licensing issues
• Criteria for construction of repository
• Evaluation of language resources

Next steps:
• Populating the Europeana Language Resource Repository
• Selection of vocabularies in different languages for mapping
• Query Translation Module



User Orientation – Why, How?

• Why:
• We want Europeana to be used widely by people
• We are not necessarily identical with these ”people”

• How:
• Log file analysis
• Personas
• Surveys
• User Tests

• Part of WP3, lead by KB-DK


Log File Analysis

• Task 3.1, UCLC
• Log File Analysis for Europeana to
evaluate the use of the services
• How do users really navigate and
search in Europeana?
• Method: Deep log analysis
• First log file analysis report fed into
version 1



Personas / User Testing

• Task 3.2, KB-DK
• Development of Europeana Personas
• Archetypical representations of our users
• Workshop on Personas
• Personas Catalogue completed
• 7 personas and relating scenarios defined
• Should guide development process

• User Testing of Europeana services with different user communities
• Registry of Test Users
• First draft of Usability Guidelines


New Access Channels to Europeana


Spatio-temporal User Interface

• Task 3.3, UGOE
• Make use of time-related and geographical metadata of the
Europeana Semantic Layer
• Provide a new visual access channel for Europeana
• Combination of spatial and temporal metadata for visualisation
• Interactive and generic map of geo-related tagged events, places
and characters in Europe – combined with timeline
• Prototype of spatio-temporal interface and search available
• Pure JavaScript based approach on the client side
• Different possible back-ends for maps



Prototype of the Spatio-temporal User Interface



Mobile Access Channel to Europeana

• Task 3.4, OFFIS
• Generic Mobile Client, adapting to the user„s mobile device
• 2 main requirements:
• Adaptation of the mobile Europeana portal
to the capabilities of the user's mobile device
• Location-based searching
• Allow users to search for works inside Europeana
around their current position

• Integration with Europeana
• Basic mobile interface for Rhine Release



Annotation Service

• Task 5.6, ARC-AIT
• Allows users to make their own contribution to Europeana content
• Annotation of multimedia resources
• Comments, discussion, linking
• Add value to existing content
• Enhance Europeana searchability through user-provided metadata

• Annotation Tool Suite fully integrated with the Europeana Portal
• Acceptance tests have been executed, currently under review



Image Annotations



Video Annotations



eBooks-on-Demand

• Task 5.7, UIBK
• Integration of eBooks on Demand (EOD) Service into Europeana
• Existing digitisation-on-demand service
• http://www.books2ebooks.eu/
• Allow for an automatic and generic transfer
of Books from EOD to Europeana

Status:
• EOD harvesting and metadata aggregation infrastructure implemented
• EOD workflow software adapted to include workflow for metadata
submission and Print-on-Demand
• 1st prototype of the EOD connector will be implemented by July


Europeana OAI-PMH Management Infrastructure (REPOX)

Part of WP5, managed by ARC-AIT

• Task 5.3, IST
• REPOX: Service for metadata harvesting from a large number of OAI
data providers
• Management of OAI data providers of administration of harvested
metadata records

• First REPOX prototype available
• Functionally complete version in June
• Aligned with Europeana technology specifications in October



Metadata and Service Registries

• Europeana Metadata Registry
• Task 5.1, IST
• Registration and management of metadata terms and schemas created by
various communities in multiple contexts
• Specification and Design document in review

• Europeana Service Registry
• Task 5.2, KB
• Will manage service descriptions of Web Services and support integration of
external services into Europeana
• Final prototype and documentation delivered
• Server integration for both Europeana and The European Library
will be implemented by end of May



Europeana Persistent Identifier Resolution Service
(ERDS)

• Task 5.4, DNB
• Meta-Service: forward Persistent Identifier resolution requests to
resolution services of national libraries and other identifier networks
• Two-day workshop on PIs on 17/18 February 2010 at DNB in Frankfurt
• Report available on EuropeanaConnect Website

• Alpha version of ERDS available
• Final version will be implemented by July



Integration of Geographical Information Services

• Task 5.5, BNP
• Geoparser and Gazetteer: will enrich Europeana metadata and content
with explicit geographical metadata and references

• Protoypes and showcases of both tools available
• 2nd Protoypes will be implemented by July


And now for the legal stuff…


Europeana Licensing Framework

• WP4, BNL
• EuropeanaConnect is building the Europeana Licensing
Framework
• Goals:
• Create and validate the Data Provider and Aggregator Agreements
which govern the Europeana Rhine release
• Create the draft Europeana Licensing Framework and validate it
• Build, test and validate tools for implementation of the Framework




• Data Provider and Data Aggregator Agreements
• Collecting requirements, several consultation rounds and final validation for
Rhine Release
• Final versions released in late April

• Europeana Public Domain Charter
• Controversial topic, as tightly linked to funding of digitisation programs
• Endorsed by Europeana Foundation and European Commission
• Positive reactions

• Public Domain Helper tools
• Defining decision trees to translate the law into a tool to decide if a work is in
the public domain
• Available in Beta Version


Challenges / Next steps

• Multi stakeholder nature of rights issues made progress in
legal questions slow and complex

• Next steps:
• Collecting feedback on agreements from commercial partners and
those beyond the immediate cultural heritage sector
• Planning the Danube legal framework



Image Credits

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Looking forward
to a successful
and productive
meeting!

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