Presentation at the Education Session of the American Art Collaborative (AAC) Linked Open Data Initiative, 31 March 2015. http://americanartcollaborative.org/
5. Built on descriptive metadata
from a broad, heterogeneous network
Audiovisual
collections
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
Musées
Lausannois
Culture.frThe
European
Library
APEX
European Film
Gateway Europeana Fashion
2,300 galleries, museums, archives and libraries
6. Aggregating museum data
Individual museums may provide data directly, but the
vast majority goes/went through vast aggregators
EuropeanaLocal
ATHENA
Linked Heritage
various national aggregators
19. Prior to the Europeana Data Model: flat
records in Europeana
dc:contributor, dc:creator, dc:date, dc:format, dc:identifier, dc:language, dc:publisher, dc:relation,
dc:source, dcterms:alternative, dcterms:extent, dcterms:temporal, dcterms:medium,
dcterms:created, dcterms:provenance, dcterms:issued, dcterms:conformsTo, dcterms:hasFormat,
dcterms:isFormatOf, dcterms:hasVersion, dcterms:isVersionOf, dcterms:hasPart, dcterms:isPartOf,
dcterms:isReferencedBy, dcterms:references, dcterms:isReplacedBy, dcterms:replaces
dcterms:isRequiredBy, dcterms:requires dcterms:tableOfContents
europeana:type, europeana:dataProvider, europeana:provider, europeana:isShownAt,
europeana:isShownBy, europeana:object, europeana:rights
No links between objects and context entities (persons, places)
Mixing data on real object and digital content
A lot of mapping quality problems
24. Ready for metadata enrichment
Already re-using third-party sources
• GeoNames, DBpedia, AAT, GEMET…
Enrichment by providers or Europeana
• In collaboration!
• Example: Getty vocabularies
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools
/vocabularies/lod/
25. Not just display and search
All this exists at the data level
Data is exported in our API
So data re-users can provide enhanced display and search
services to.
26. Not just AAT
Getty will release other vocabularies as linked data
Our partner projects use other linked data sets
Geonames, VIAF, GND, Iconclass, DBpedia, MIMO, PartagePlus
28. Modeling, linked data style
Cross-community development
Data models that re-use several existing models
Semantic Web paradigm just allows mixing them!
29. Different semantic grains
Semantic Web principle of specializing
classes and properties
Enables extensions, “applications
profiles”, based on needs and best
practices from specific sectors or
domains
30. Benefits of linked data for Europeana
Vision matches well open data strategies
Vocabularies and datasets to re-use for enrichment
Making data work better for search and display
Technical ease of publishing and connecting data
Flexible approach to building & re-using standards
More flexible approach to interoperability and granularity
of the data model
35. Conclusions
Big opportunities and challenges for Europeana and
its partners
Not implementing the full Semantic Web technical
stack at once already bring benefits
Seeing where the general Linked Data vision can
change things
Les Miserables: Victor Hugo’s handwritten manuscripts: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5372912AF66AB529E188218BC1F747E75EB1A18F.html
BnF, public domain
Matisse ‘53 in the form of a double helix’ http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200104/F8D60AB9136C8A59B59DF1CFEC278A6CABA8B0C6.htmlThe Wellcome Library (CC-BY-NC-ND)
‘söprűtánc’ – Hungarian traditional dance http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08901/E1A7B01BE4AED87FD239672F4F3941F52262D6B2.html
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Musicology, public domain
‘Neurologico reggae’ Music album http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08901/ADC241BCBF8470988DBA6EEAFCF13F14D88E5534.html
DISMARC – EuropeanaConnect Paid Access
‘Castle of Kavala’ 3D exploration of a Greek castle http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020703/05607B24D15BD516EE2B765F74CDA39C7427F7FB.html
Cultural and Educational Technology Institute - Research Centre Athen CARARE CC-BY-NC-ND
Example used is:
http://preview.europeana.eu/portal/record/90402/174D436CF5C61F8AA999090C98DA48B9C7024087.html
Een vrouw met een kind in een kelderkamer by Pieter de Hooch, Rijksmuseum, public domain
All partners send us descriptions of their assets, which we aggregate in a single service
View the object at: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/09102/_CM_0161930.html