Presentation at a seminar on linked data and art museums at the Smithsonian Institute, April 29 2013.
Other presentations at http://lodlam.net/2013/05/07/linked-open-data-in-art/
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EDM - American Art Collaborative LOD Meeting
1. Europeana Data Model
Antoine Isaac
Scientific Coordinator, Europeana
American Art Collaborative LOD Meeting
Smithsonian American Art Museum, April 29, 2013
2. What Europeana gets (and makes available)
Descriptive
metadata
Link to digital
objects online
4. Issues
ESE is a flat model
No links between cultural objects or between objects and context
entities (persons, places)
just strings (with no language info)
Mixed data
real object, digital representation, provider – all in one record
A lot of mapping quality problems.
• E.g., dc:date should be a date related to the original object but is often the
date of digitisation
5. EDM Requirements
1. Distinguish the real object (painting, book) from its digital
representation
2. Distinguish the object from its metadata record
3. Allow multiple records for same object
containing potentially contradictory statements about an object
1. Support for objects that are composed of other objects
hierarchies
1. Be compatible with different levels of description
Generic/interoperable vs. specific/domain-centered
1. Flexible support for describing contextual resources, including
concepts
2. Re-use and extend elements from existing standards
6. A Collaborative Effort
Europeana v1.0 WP3
Ca. 60 participants
“Fish tank” development
Many presentations in the network and beyond
(Evolving) specifications available since 2009
Cross-community development
Involving library, archive and museum experts
http://europeanalabs.eu/wiki/WP1CommunityMeetingMuseums
7. A Collaborative Effort
EDM makes Europeana ready to ingest metadata that is closer to specific
community concerns
But still mapped to common elements
Europeana & partners can develop EDM “profiles” upon which everyone
could build specific functionality
Based on best practices from sector or domain level
EDM is consolidated with partners who re-use it
Europeana providers, DPLA
10. General points
• All resources should have an identifier
• Most values can be either be a literal or a reference
• It is recommended to use xml:lang attributes on literals
• Use the most precise (sub) property available.
• Later, providers will be able to specialize to EDM
• Re-use elements from other vocabularies
• SKOS, Dublin Core, RDA, CIDOC-CRM (via mappings)
13. edm:aggregation with metadata
Properties for the ore:Aggregation http://www.mimo-db.eu/UEDIN/214
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
edm:aggregatedCHO #UEDIN:214
edm:hasView http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/VIDEO/0032195v.mpg
edm:hasView http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/AUDIO/0032195s.mp3
edm:hasView http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/IMAGE/0032195c.jpg
edm: dataProvider University of Edinburgh
edm:Provider MIMO - Musical Instrument Museums Online
edm:rights http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
edm:isShownBy http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/IMAGE/0032195c.jpg
edm:object http://www.mimo-db.eu/media/UEDIN/IMAGE/0032195c.jpg
14. Properties for edm:ProvidedCHO
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
edm:isNextInSequence
edm:isDerivativeOf
edm:currentLocation…
The ProvidedCHO is the cultural heritage object which is the subject of
the package of data that has been submitted to Europeana.
15. Example
Properties for the edm: ProvidedCHO: #UEDIN:24
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
dc:date Circa 1840
dc:description Technical description: Brass; ligature fitting on
bell section at joint; stockings on main slides.
with one coil, angled to face forwards. Repair
History: Main slide possibly not original (tenon of
slide section of joint is tapered, bell section joint
for cylindrical tenon)
dc:title Buccin trombone.Nominal pitch: B?
dc:type http://www.mimo-
db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/4378
edm:type IMAGE
16. WebResource
One or more digital representations of the provided cultural heritage
object.
Properties:
dc:rights
edm:rights
dc:format
dcterms:isPartOf
edm:isNextInSequence
…
17. edm:WebResources with metadata
Properties for the edm:WebResource http://www.mimo-
db.eu/media/UEDIN/VIDEO/0032195v.mpg
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
edm:rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Properties for the edm:WebResource http://www.mimo-
db.eu/media/UEDIN/AUDIO/0032195s.mp3
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
edm:rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Properties for the edm:WebResource http://www.mimo-
db.eu/media/UEDIN/IMAGE/0032195c.jpg
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
edm:rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
NB: digital representations may have different rights
Could have format data etc.
19. Example - edm:Place and skos:Concept
Properties for skos:Concept http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/4378
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
skos:PrefLabel xml:lang="en" Buccin
Properties for skos:Concept http://www.mimo-db.eu/HornbostelAndSachs/356
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
skos:PrefLabel xml:lang="en" 423.22 Labrosones with slides
Properties for edm:Place http://sws.geonames.org/3017382/
EDM properties Corresponding values in the original data
skos:PrefLabel xml:lang="en" France
20. Model for representing metadata
enrichments
Contextual resources from providers
Their thesauri, gazetteers, etc.
Enrichment (multilingual) by Europeana
Geonames, GEMET, dbPedia
Enrichment by third-parties?
22. Take-home message
Not perfect, but making progress
Data granularity
Data interlinking and enriching
Re-use and interoperability
More at http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation
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
Red -> for providers and Europeana Green -> for Europeana
This diagram shows the three core classes and the relationship between them. The Provided CHO is the “real Thing” as it exists in the real world – the mona lisa for example. The Web Resource is the digital representation of the providedCHO and is the resource that is accessible from europeana The aggregation is the construct that links these objects to make a logical whole. I’ll go through all three briefly.
Properties that relate to the aggregation – notably the data about where the data comes from and the identifers of the real thing and its digital representations.
Properties that relate to the original object (note that it could be a born digital object)– the edmProvidedCHO. This is where most of the descriptive metdata will go.
Web resource is the digital object
There will always be at least two aggregations for the same thing even if only one provider offers it - Europeana will always make its own aggregation and add its own metadata. Here is how it looks when europeana adds its own enriched metadata…. Our own proxy with our own – enriched – metadata – using the edm:agent class and the VIAF identifier we can add skos preflabels to his name in two languages.