- Europeana is a digital library system that provides access to cultural heritage collections across Europe through APIs and a portal. - The Europeana Semantic Elements model is currently used but the Europeana Data Model is being developed to better preserve original metadata while enabling interoperability. - The Europeana Data Model presentation described the EDM, which is based on standards like OAI ORE, Dublin Core, and SKOS to organize object metadata from different providers in a semantic web framework. It allows distinction between objects and records while supporting complex objects and vocabularies.