EuropeanaTechAntoine Isaac, Gregory Markus | Europeana AGM 2015

EuropeanaTech, an introduction

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“EuropeanaTech is the community of experts, developers, and researchers from the R&D sector within the greater Europeana Network.”

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The Wellcome Library

Luigi Garzi

The birth of Adonis and the transformation of Myrrha

By the numbers• 460 Mailing list registrants

• 2,144 Twitter followers

• 5 Years of EDM

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EuropeanaTech in 3 Easy Steps Join the community

Learn about EuropeanaTech

Participate in EuropeanaTech

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Step 1

To join EuropeanaTech you have to first join the Europeana

Network Association.

Signs you up for our mailing list. The mailing list is great. But

can be greater (more on that later)

Allows you to participate in our Task Forces (also tbc…)

Join the community

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Step 2Learn about the EuropeanaTech community

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Step 2

• We don’t always publish but when we do we make it count.

• @EuropeanaTech

• Europeana pro (pro.europeana.eu/europeana-tech)

• EuropeanaTech Insight

Learn about the EuropeanaTech community

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EuropeanaTech InsightOur very own publication

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Step 2• We don’t always publish but when we do we make it count.

• @EuropeanaTech

• EuropeanaTech Insight

• Who’s Using What

• Reports and White Papers

• Blogs

• Events!

Learn about the EuropeanaTech community

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Europeana EU

EuropeanaTech 2015

• BnF, February 12-13, 2015

• 250 participants

• Presentations, videos and blogs at

http://pro.europeana.eu/event/europeanatech-2015

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EDM turns 5 workshop Netherlands, Public

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Elegant Party on a Terrace of a Venetian-

inspired Setting

Europeana Data Model Workshop: EDM turns five, so now what?28 experts gathered yesterday at Rijksmuseum"EDM/Kafka" "EDM = cool"

• 5 years after, motivation is still high: "use our brains more!"

• Much discussion on sustainability and governance

• more transparency on what Europeana does or does not

• end goal of EDM; EDM extensions vs. EDM core vs. local uses of EDM

"Drop 'Europeana' in EDM!" or keep it?

• take a higher view on problems, with general reviews

• Specific development suggestions

• EDM as a means for better data quality in Europeana

• Add events and roles in EDM!

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Step 3Moving right along...

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1914, National Library of France

Agence de presse Meurisse

Concours de cycles nautiques sur le lac

d’Enghien : Berregent piloté par Austerling

Step 3

• We want to write about you! Yes, you!

• EuropeanaTech Insight calls

• OS tools? FLOSS (but only if well

documented)

• Who’s Using What for developers

Participate in EuropeanaTech

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Who’s Using What?Developer spotlight

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Step 3

• Project outcomes? let’s write a blog!

• Project reports? we’ll break ‘em down and

write a blog!

• Think something needs more attention?

Task force!

Participate in EuropeanaTech

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Task Force newsEvaluation and Enrichment

• 23 members

• Part of efforts to improve data quality

• Inventory of metadata enrichment

tools

• Comparative evaluation

• Important methodological findings for

selecting enrichment datasets and

performing evaluation

Reports published last Friday!

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http://pro.europeana.eu/taskforce/evaluation-and-enrichments

4 November 2015