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Challenges and opportunities of aggregating multiple databases in
Europeana
SHIPWHER final seminar, 2013-02-13
This is me
Hi,
I’m David Haskiya and I’m the Product Developer at Europeana.
So what does that mean? It means that I translate between GLAM-speak and Development speak to make sure our web sites and other technical tools deliver value to our users. I work mostly with user research and product design. Before doing this for Europeana I did the same for the National Heritage Board in Sweden (among others).
In a former life I was actually an archaeologist!
/David
PS. GLAM=Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. DS.
What I hope you’ll be able to take away
Some basic info about Europeana
The opportunity and challenge of building a multinational, multidisciplinary, multilingual database
What Europeana can do for you and your organisation
What is Europeana?
26m records from 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries
Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers...
Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs…
Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts…
Film, newsreels, television…
Curated exhibitions
31 languages
Europe’s cultural heritage portal
What types of data does Europeana hold?
Texts Images Video Sound 3D
What makes up a Europeana record?
Thumbnail/preview
Metadata
Link to digital objects online
Europeana’s vision and mission
Europeana is a catalyst for change in the world of cultural heritage.
Our mission: The Europeana Foundation and its Network create new ways for people to engage with their cultural history, whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure.
Our vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural diversity better and contributes to a thriving knowledge economy.
What I work with!
Executive committee• Currently 8 members
Board of participants• 20 organisations plus
6 elected Network Officers
Europeana Network• 532 members elect
the 6 Network Officers
Europeana Office• ~40 members of staff based in
The Hague, the UK and Greece
Over a thousand people working on Europeana-related projects, activities and Task Forces across Europe
Europeana, a network of GLAMs
Opportunities and challenges
A tale of trade, war and shipwreck
The Eendracht of Amsterdam
I’ll call her Unity to make things easier for me
One fluyt out of the thousands built!
Een fluitschip, Dirke Everson Lons, courtesy of Rijksmuseum
The fluyt Unity, built in 1661
Amsterdam 1661
Some of her ports of call
Newcastle
Bordeaux
Bergen
Copenhagen
Gothenburg
Danzig
Tallin
Stockholm
Shipwrecked off Öland in 1689
X Shipwrecked in1689
Where can the traces of Unity be found?
In how many libraries, archives and museums would she have left her traces?
In how many countries?
In how many languages?
What terms would have been used to describe her in contemporary sources?
Which terms a user use to to search for her today?
Een fluitschip, Dirke Everson Lons, courtesy of Rijksmuseum
The role of Europeana: Unity?
Multinational, all European countries
Cross-domain
Libraries
Archives
Museums
Multilingual, thesauri and translations
One searchable access point re-directing the user to multiple orginal sources
Challenge: That’s really difficult!
Coverage
Not all GLAMs are Europeana members (yet!)
Only a small proportion digitised
Quality
Lack of multi-lingual thesauri make discovery difficult
Lack of true concepts and entities
Technology
Semantic search beyond the keyword match
Hercules draagt de zuilen by Heinrich Aldegrever, courtsesy of Rijksmuseum
Challenge: Language&Terminologies
Translations
Synonyms
Homonyms
• In the same language
• Across languages
Spelling variations
Changes in meanings over time
Vaixell, Loď, Schiff, Ship, Buque, Laiva, Navire, Hajó, Nave, Schip (transportmiddel), Skip, Statek wodny, Navio, Судно, Skepp (fartyg)
Skepp (arkitektur), Skepp (fartyg), Flöjt (skepp), Flöjt (instrument)
Skepp, Fartyg, Farkost…
Skepp, Skep, Skjepp…
How can we overcome those challenges?
Advert for Player’s Navy Cut Cigarettes, © British Library
Become a player!
What can Europeana do for me (what can you do for Europeana?)?
How does Europeana get its content?
Through its aggregation structure, Europeana represents 2,200 data providers across Europe
From 150 Aggregators
• National, Domain and Thematic
• More efficient than working with every individual content provider
End-user generated content
• Crowd-sourcing projects such as Europeana 1914-1918 and Europeana 1989
Aggregation
National Aggregators Vertical Aggregators
MuseumsNational Aggregators
Regional AggregatorsArchives
Libraries
MLAs
MLAs
MLAs
Film Archives
Dark Aggregators
What Europeana can do for you (and what we ask in return)
Access the EU funding streams
Access the expertise of other Network members
Get more visitors to your collections via our portal and API
Use our API to offer your website visitors richer content
Use the Europeana API as your API
Take active part in projects
Share your expertise with other Network members
Provide your collections to Europeana
Allow others to reuse your collection metadata via the API
Provide your collections to Europeana (at star pupil level)
What we offer What we ask
A maritime archaeology/history aggregator?
Domain expertise
Curation and digitisation of content
Multi-lingual terminologies
Network building
Build partnerships across Europe
Aggregate
Pool your collections
Provide the to Europeana
This would make the search for Unity possible!
Thank you for your attention!
Questions?
Find us and find out about us
Europeana portal europeana.eu
• New portal preview http://preview.europeana.eu
Europeana Exhibitions http://exhibitions.europeana.eu
Europeana 1914-1918 europeana1914-1918.eu
Europeana blog blog.europeana.eu/
Europeana Professional pro.europeana.eu
• Professional blog pro.europeana.eu/blog
On Facebook facebook.com/Europeana
On Twitter twitter.com/EuropeanaEU
On Pinterest pinterest.com/europeana/
On Google+ plus.google.com/115619270851872228337/posts
On Linked In linkedin.com/groups/Europeana-134927/about