EuropeanaPhotography 1 February 2012 31 January 2015 Over
430,000 vintage photographs: selection, digitization, enrichment,
ingestion into Europeana Courtesy of Arbejdermuseet
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Courtesy NALIS
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EuropeanaPhotography 19 partners 13 EU countries
OrganisationCountry ALINARI 24 ORE SPA ITALY IMAGNO Brandsttter
Images KG AUSTRIA KONINKLIJKE MUSEA VOOR KUNST EN GESCHIEDENIS
BELGIUM KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN BELGIUM National Academic
Library Information System BULGARIA JP/POLITIKENS HUS AS DENMARK
ARBEJDERMUSEET MED ARBEJDERBEVAEGELSENS BIBLIOTEK OG ARKIV DENMARK
SAEML PARISIENNE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE FRANCE United Archives
Gesellschaft fur Archivmanagement und Verwertung mbH GERMANY
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS GREECE Promoter di Masi
Pietro & C S.N.C. ITALY Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico
delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche
ITALY STOWARZYSZENIE MIEDZYNARODOWE CENTRUM ZARZADZANIA INFORMACJA
POLAND Muzeum Historii Fotografii im. Walerego Rzewuskiego w
Krakowie POLAND LIETUVOS DAILES MUZIEJUS REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
DIVADELNY USTAV SLOVAK REPUBLIC Departament de Cultura -
Generalitat de Catalunya SPAIN AYUNTAMIENTO DE GIRONA SPAIN TOPHAM
PARTNERS LLP UNITED KINGDOM
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Courtesy of Parisienne de Photo
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Content Seminar Courtesy of KU Leuven Courtesy of Parisienne de
Photo
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Content Seminar: Leuven, 12-13 April 2012 Share knowledge
about: content selection methodology for identification of
masterpieces Workflow: best practices care, handling and long term
preservation of original items Content Seminar Courtesy of
Parisienne de Photo
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Themes and collections Selection criteria - Masterpiece quality
& Impact >>> Definition of masterpiece: A work done
with extraordinary skill, especially a work of fine art, craft or
intellect that is an exceptionally great achievement. To some, this
means the best piece of work by a particular artist or
craftsperson. Courtesy of Polfoto
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Themes and collections Selection criteria -General interest and
appeal -Complementarity with existing material in Europeana
-Synergy between the providers collections
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selection, assessment and prioritisation project planning,
management and tracking preparation of originals for digitisation
descriptive and technical metadata capture and editing submission
of digital resources data collection and management assessment and
evaluation Digitization Tasks
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Archival preparation of originals Preservation preparation of
originals Digitization Guidelines & digitization activities
Digitization metadata
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2. DIGITISATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF EP
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The workshop Digitization systems and procedures in
photographic image archives by CITM (Polytechnics University of
Catalonia), organized by CRDIDigitization systems and procedures in
photographic image archives Girona, 22-23 May 2012. -overview of
the available systems for original photographic materials
digitization -procedures in order to obtain the best results in
terms of image quality and fidelity to the original -attended by 22
representatives of 13 partners in Europeana Photography TRAINING
EVENT Training
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Technical partners (KMKG - NTUA) > Development of tools for
enrichment and ingestion: The EuropeanaPhotography multilingual
vocabulary The MINT mapping tool Metadata Courtesy of Nalis
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The EuropeanaPhotography multilingual vocabulary A survey was
conducted with the content providers to analyze the use of
controlled vocabularies in each institution, and the underlying
technical possibilities of each ones database program On the basis
of the survey, the vocabulary was finalized and translated in 12
languages Vocabulary Courtesy of Lithuanian Museums
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Courtesy United Archives
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The MINT mapping tool Using the MINT technology, a
user-friendly platform was developed for transforming the content
providers metadata to the EuropeanaPhotography intermediate schema
(based on LIDO), and to enrich them through the mapping tool with
the EuropeanaPhotography Vocabulary. Metadata Mapping Courtesy of
MHF
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Metadata transformation & ingestion: steps Intermediate
Format Selection [Standards Examined: VRA C ORE CIDOC - DUBLIN CORE
SPECTRUM - MARC21 - IPTC LIDO CARARE - METS - EAD] [LIDO:- Stable
metadata standard developed by the consortium of Athena Rich enough
to represent all the required elements as those were set by the
Europeana Photography providers in the content seminar Supports
vocabularies (WP4 for the enrichment of metadata) Has been
successfully used as the intermediate schema in other projects like
Linked Heritage and Judaica Well documented and it uses an open
license] XML Export [The providers can export their metadata in XML
or in CSV, formats that are supported by the MINT Mapping Tool]
Source to Intermediate: MINT
[http://mint.projects.image.ntua.gr/photography : Organization and
user level access rights and role
assignment.http://mint.projects.image.ntua.gr/photography
Collection and record management (XML serialisation). OAI-PMH based
harvesting. Visual mapping editor for the XSLT language.
Transformation and previewing (XML and HTML)] Intermediate to EDM
& Ingestion [OAI-PMH protocol that is used for the delivery of
content to Europeana - is already supported by MINT - Mapping of
LIDO to Europeana Data Model (currently ESE is supported) - 12,319
items ready for - publication]
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Courtesy TopFoto
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Dissemination platforms
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Courtesy Fondazione Alinari
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The indicators for year 1 were successfully achieved: Expected
Achieved IndicatorObjective/expected resultIndicator nameYear 1Year
2Year 3 1No of items
digitisedDigitisation50.000250.000430.000151.130 2No of items
enrichedEnrichment 200.000430.000 3No of multilingual items
Multilingual support 200.000430.000 4 No of Europeana compliant
records Transformation 150.000430.000 5No of items on Europeana
Ingestion process 1.000100.000430.00012.319 6 No of individual hits
on Europeana Photography website Dissemination /Sustainability
>1.000>5.000>10.000 7 No of presentations and papers in
European and international conferences Dissemination
/Sustainability Up to 5Up to 8Up to 107 8 No of visitors to the
Europeana Photography exhibition in Florence (15 days of opening)
Dissemination /Sustainability 3.000 expected visitors during the
whole period Progress Courtesy of United Archives
