EUROPEANA DATA MODEL, Past and Present Valentine Charles | EDM worskhop 2015

Netherlands, Public Domain1660 - 1625, Rijksmuseum

Anonymous

Arrival of a Portuguese ship

A long journey….

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A collaborative effortThank you !

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• The result of a continuous collaboration between different domains represented in Europeana

• Through projects

• EuropeanaTech Task Forces

A collaborative effortThank you !

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Contributed to the implementation of EDM at Europeana

Europeana now aggregates, processes, enriches and disseminates data using the Europeana Data Model.

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The role of EDM at Europeana

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• EDM allows Europeana to build a network of digital and born-digital cultural heritage objects thanks to the representation of semantic links and relationships between objects.

• Europeana can, for instance, support complex objects such as those

described in archives.

The role of EDM at Europeana

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• Europeana builds its “Semantic Layer” by linking to contextual resources (e.g. concepts, persons, places).

• Relies on the URIs provided as part of the metadata

• Performs automatic semantic enrichment

• Read our new report on Evaluation and Enrichment:

http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-tech/europeanatech

-task-forces/evaluation-and-enrichments

The role of EDM at Europeana

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The role of EDM at Europeana

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• European publishes EDM data

• Via the Europeana API

• Via Linked Open Data at data.europeana.eu

EDM an open and living standard

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• EDM is developed to be as re-usable as possible.

• EDM can be seen as an anchor to which various finer-grained models can be attached, enhancing their interoperability at a semantic level

• Re-using existing vocabularies and defining mappings with existing standards is crucial for EDM to remain reusable by the cultural heritage domain

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• Many projects and partners have worked on enabling metadata interoperability with European

• either directly mapping their metadata to EDM according to the guidelines

• or create specialisations of EDM for representing specific use-cases and minimising the loss of metadata from their original metadata format to EDM

Application profile Mapping

Extension

EDM

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• The model is well- documented and openly shared

• In a human-readable and machine-readable documentation

• Different documentation is produced for the various profiles of EDM:

• The EDM model as used by the data providers for data delivery.

• The EDM model for data enriched, stored and published by Europeana (containing the results of data enrichment, for instance) in its API or Linked Data service. This documentation is available on Europeana Labs.

• Specific EDM profiles supporting domain-specific data or specific functional requirements.

“The design of data models is decentralized and tailored to specific applications, while the data created and exchanged with them still forms a vast, semantically interoperable knowledge environment.”

(EDM White Paper)

United Kingdom, CC BYThe Wellcome Library

Luigi Garzi

The birth of Adonis and the transformation of Myrrha

Have we achieved our vision? What is missing?

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France, Public Domain1932, National Library of France

Agence de presse Mondial Photo-Presse.

Tournoi royal de motos à Londres : changement d'une roue de side-car en marche

“In true linked data fashion, EDM ‘profiles’ can be developed without Europeana having to update the core model. Elements can be attached to the model without a corresponding implementation in Europeana's core platform. ”

(EDM White Paper)

How will Europeana and the community handle the resulting diversity of profiles in a seamless way?

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