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Europeana and the relevance of the DM2E results
Antoine Isaac
DM2E Final Event
Pisa, December 11
Europe’s platform to access cultural heritage
Currently36M objects
Built on descriptive metadatafrom 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
More than this
Distributing content
Europeana aims to provide content in the users’ workflow – where they want it, when they want it.
Web portal, project portals/exhibitions, social media, app
Others using Europeana data independently
We believe Culture transforms lives
We are a community of > 2500 members who contribute data,
technology, knowledge and business opportunities
A network of cultural innovators
Europeana as multi-sided platform
DM2E perfectly fits
DM2E benefits for researchers
More material in Europeana relevant for digital humanities
Cf Doron’s talk
DM2E benefits for researchers
Better tools - annotation
Fitting a scholarly model of researcher activities
Cf. Christian and Steffen’s talk later
Pundit http://dm2e.eu/digital-humanities/
Infrastructure R&D
Workflows for data aggregation
Linked Open Data publication
Contextualization and provenance
Cf Kai’s talkhttp://onto.dm2e.eu/omnom
Metadata Enrichment
Gathering/linking existing semantic, multilingual data
Allowing different semantic grains
Idea behind the Europeana Data Model Providers provide data close to original models
Using mappings to more interoperable level
statement at generic level
statement at specific level
Different semantic grains
EDM enables the definition of extensions, “applications profiles”
Based on best practices from specific communities
Specialization of EDM in DM2E - Example
Slide by Steffen Hennicke
Innovating as a network
Cf Lieke’s talkhttp://openglam.orghttp://openhumanitiesawards.orghttp://judaicalink.org
Thank you!
Antoine Isaac
@EuropeanaEU
Some images by Elco van Staveren, Denkschets
