EUROPEANA INSIDE
Creating the missing link
Mission
To support the Digital Agenda for Europe by achieving a lasting transformation in the quantity, scope and usability of the data available to Europeana from European cultural institutions.
What is Europeana?
• An internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe
• A platform for knowledge exchange that promotes collaboration between librarians, curators, archivists and the creative industries
• Europeana API provides access to the Europeana collections for reuse by creative industries, research and education
Europeana Inside
• Best Practice Network (ICT-PSP program) • 26 participants• 10 countries
• 30 months (1 April 2012 – 30 September 2014) • 960,000 records added to Europeana
• 6 work packages • Website: www.europeana-inside.eu
Countries
• United Kingdom • The Netherlands • Belgium • Greece • Germany • Slovenia • Hungary • France • Sweden • PortugalEuropeana Inside
–Partners
• Collections Trust, UK
• Knowledge Integration Ltd, UK • Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, GE • zetcom, GE
• Postscriptum Information Architecture, GR • Stichting Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland, NL • System Simulation Ltd, UK
• Universiteit Leuven, BE • Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, HU • KE Software Ltd, UK
• Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, BE
• Petőfi Irodalmi Muzeum, HU
• National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, GR
• iMinds, BE
• Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, HU • Stichting Europeana, NL • Adlib Information Systems, NL • Stiftelsen Länsmuseet
Västernorrland Slv, SW • Monguz Ltd, HU • Semantika, SI
• Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, BE • Skinsoft, FR
• Benaki Museum, GR
• House of Images (Xantys Ltd), UK • Ecomuseu Municipial do Seixal, PT • Mobydoc, FR
Europeana Inside
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Associate Partners
1. British Museum, UK 2. ETHER, South Africa
3. Collections Information Technology (Cit), NL 4. Instituut Beeld & Geluid, NL
5. Gallery Systems, USA
6. Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PL 7. Rijskdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, NL
8. Orangeleaf Systems, UK 9. Digisam, SE
10. Axiell, UK
11. Museum of National Liberation Maribor, SI 12. Picturae, NL
13. Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, HR 14. National Library of Latvia, LV
15. The Public Library “Vladislav Petković Dis”, RS 16. Božidar Jakac Art Museum, SI
Europeana Inside – Project Teams
Collaboration of Cultural Heritage Institutions, Aggregators and Software-Providers
Objectives I
• To open up new digital cultural content for Europeana • To simplify significantly the process of contributing data to
Europeana
• To help overcome participation barriers by part-automating the workflow and creating tools for the management of permissions and licensing
Objectives II
• To ensure that current and future generations of Collections and Digital Asset Management Software are ‘Europeana-ready’ • To support metadata enrichment in Data Provider systems
Europeana Connection Kit (ECK)
• A set of open-source software tools• Connects CMS to an aggregator • Simple and easy to use
• Lowers participation barriers • Supports metadata enrichment
ECK Overview
Timeline
Europeana Connection Kit
Requirements Analysiso. CMS: Data management o. ECK global – PID service
•Manage
o. CMS: selecting record for export…
•Select
o. CMS: batch editing… o. ECK global – mapping and transformation service
•Prepare
o. ECK global: Validation service
• Validate
o. Push vs. Pull
• Supply
o. Withdraw/update o. Publication status report o. Re-ingestion
• Accept and Enrich
Europeana Connection Kit
Aggregation model• LIDO export for museum partners • MARC export for library partner
• Standard LIDO to EDM and MARC to EDM mapping • Use of aggregators: national, regional, dark aggregator
Europeana Connection Kit – Development
1. April 2012 – 30. September 2014
Iteration 2
Iteration 1 Iteration 3 Iteration 4
1. Manage 2. Select 3. Prepare 4. Validate 5. Supply 6. Data Acceptance
Europeana Connection Kit
Iterative developmentEuropeana Inside – Testing groups
Testing Group 1 Testing Group 2 Testing Group 4 Testing Group 3/5
Knowledge Integration Collections Trust KE software Xantys Limited System Sim. Zetcom PostScriptum Benaki National Gallery KMKG St. Pr. Kulturbesitz Monguz Semantika Petöfi Szepmuveszeti Magyar Nemzeti Adlib LIBIS iMinds S.L. Västernorrland Mobydoc SKINsoft Município do Seixal KADOC RBINS DEN
Europeana Connection Kit
Iteration 2Iteration 2: Enhanced management, status and data publication … •September 2013, testing October 2013
•Test group meetings •Results …
•Marks the start of data aggregation and delivery to Europeana… Technical Integration Report (October 2013)
•All partners report progress on integrating ECK functionality •All CMS-side functions ‘complete’ or ‘under development’
•Good progress on integrating validation and transformation features •Most ECK functions to be available to customers before end of project
Europeana Connection Kit
Iteration 3 & 4Iteration 2
Iteration 1 Iteration 3 Iteration 4
Iteration 3: Data re-ingestion and data push •March 2014, testing May 2014
Iteration 4: Production version!
• July 2014, final testing and bug fixing August 2014
Tool Box containing: • Open Source Software • User Manual
• Documentation • Training
Impact – Creating the missing link
• Far-reaching and transformative• Start of a partnership between CMS vendors and cultural institutes • Open up potential for more than 7000 other cultural institutions to
deliver data to Europeana and other targets
• Open up this data to the outside world for creative reuse
Vision
The Europeana Inside outputs, and particularly the Europeana Connection Kit, will be adopted by every Collections Management software supplier and their museum, library and archive clients throughout Europe to transform the quantity, scope and accessibility of digital cultural heritage for the public.
Forward plan – viability and sustainability
What will happen after the project…
The forward plan will focus on
• The future development potential of the ECK • The maintenance of the Best Practice Network • The promotion and advocacy of the Europeana
Inside outputs to new partners
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