Promoting Austrian Cultural and Scientific Heritage via EUROPEANA

Cultural Heritage - Cultural Promotion - Tourism in the Danube Region

Mag. Gerda Koch, Dr. Sigrid Reinitzer, 17.11.2009

co-funded by the European Commission

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Part 1

Europeana – The European Digital LibraryStatus November 2009

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Initiative i2010 of the European Commission

• „Access for all“ (2005)– Strengthening the European Information Space

Provide online access to the Europeana cultural and scientific heritage for all.

i2010 > recommends thecreation of a European Digital Libraryas a single, multilingual access point to the European cultural and scientific heritage

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Promoting Austrian Cultural and Scientific Heritage via EUROPEANA

» Provide easy access to digitized material » Attract new generations of internet users

» Make national (regional, local) cultural heritage and scientific research international visible

» Create synergies between the different contentinstitutions (exchange of knowledge, working groups, workon international themes...)

» Stimulate the creation of new products and services fortourism and education

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• a joint European

ONLINE -

access point...

www.europeana.eu

Summary: Europeana is

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• ... which directly leads to the

digitized online content held by

the various European cultural

and educational organizations.

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• ...collect the original data

• Only metadata (catalogue data) will be integrated in the joint virtualcatalogue

• A link will point to the local web sites and digital objects

• ...substitute local portals / web presence

• But your website will be discovered far more easily

Europeanawill not...

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Europeana –the European Digital Library

www.europeana.eu

Developed from 07-09 by EDLnet

Prototype >

November 2008

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• Status autumn 2009:• 4,6 Mio. digitized books, newspapers, videos, maps, photographs,

documents ...• More than 1000 cultural heritage institutions are providing

content (direct or via aggregators)• More than 150 institutions are included in the partner network• Work concentrates on the first public release – Europeana 1.0 – in

July 2010 (Rhine Release)• Constant improvement of functionalities:

• Search functionality and gateways (APIs)• Web 2.0 Services (interactive und collaborative functions)• Improvment of multilinguality

Europeana –the European Digital Library

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Content Status Autumn 2009

Still 82% of the content comes from 4 countries !

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How is content integrated into Europeana?

• Individual Organisations• Thematic• Domain ... Aggregators• Regional

• The preferred model for the future is for Europeana to deal only with aggregators unless there is a strategic necessity to deal directly with an individual provider. The desired position is shown in the image.

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Mapping of the local metadata to...

• ESE Schema v3.2 (base on Dublin Core Qualified)• Europeana mandatory fields:

• The metadata must include a link to the digital object, or to thecontent provider‘s website where the digital object is presented

• The name of the content provider

• The data must fall under one of the following object types(video, image, sound, text)

Task of theAggregator

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Part 2

Selected Europeana Aggregators

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• Its overall objective is to deliver core components which are essential for the realisation of Europeana, the European Digital Library as a truly interoperable, multilingual and user-oriented service for all European citizens.

• EuropeanaConnect will also add the music dimension to Europeana by aggregating a critical mass of audio content.

• Best Practice Netzwerk(eContentplus – digital libraries initiative)

• 30 Partners from 14 countries• From: Libraries, Audio Archives, Research Institutions, Universities, European

Digital Library Foundation• Duration: Mai 2009 - October 2011• Coordinator: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (AT)

EuropeanaConnect

www.europeanaconnect.eu

co-funded by the European Commission

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The Audio AggregationPlatform

www.dismarc.eu

www.europeanaconnect.eu

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• Regional and localcultural heritage and scientific informationfor EUROPEANA

• Best Practice Netzwerk(eContentplus – digital libraries initiative)

• 32 Partner from 27 countries• From: Cultural institutions, digital libraries, Networks, European

Digital Library Foundation• Duration: Juni 2008 - Mai 2011• Coordinator: Sogn og Fjordane (NO)• In each country: one regional content co-ordinator• Austria: AIT Angewandte Informationstechnik, Graz

EuropeanaLocal

www.europeanalocal.eu

co-funded by the European Commission

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http://www.europeana-local.at The AustrianAggregation Platform

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Joint Virtual Metadata Catalogue

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Detail ViewMetadata at theAustrian AggregatorPlatform

Metadata at the individualcontent provider‘s local web presence

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OAI Provider

The place from where Europeana will harvest the data (into www.europeana.eu)

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The Austrian Aggregator‘s Site providesvarious Tools

Example: The Online Mapping Tool

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FAQ – If you want to know more...

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Information

Email information lists

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Digitale Bibliothek Austria - DBA

• The creation of Austrian working groups for contentaggregation to Europeana was suggested in February 2009

• 13 November 2009: first Meeting of the Austrian DBA workgroups in Vienna

• Focus of activities: • Aggregation • Strategy, policy and development• Technical and semantic issues

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• Create a portal for literature on biodiversity researchand contribute to EUROPEANA

• Best Practice Netzwerk(eContentplus – digital libraries initiative)

• 28 Partners from 13 European countries and the US• From: Natural History Museums, Libraries, Universities,

Research Centres, Botanical Gardens• Duration: Mai 2009 - April 2012• Coordinator: Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und

Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)

Biodiversity Heritage Library Europe

www.bhl-europe.eu

co-funded by the European Commission

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Free access to digitized biodiversity research literatureA global aim

• BHL Portal since 2007 in the US

• BHL Europe since 2009

• BHL China and • BHL Australia will

probably join soon

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www.biodiversitylibrary.org

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1. BHL-E Prototype: November 2010

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www.bhl-europe.eu

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Planning

• All projects work to contribute data to the Europeana RhineRelease (July 2010) (ESEv3.2)

• First Test Imports planned for autumn 2009.• Technical developments are contributed to the Europeana

Sandbox (= workgroup platform/test environment where all developments of the diverse Europeana projects arecontributed to)

• All projects are „open“ – meaning:New Partners are welcome!

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Kontakt:Mag. Gerda Koch

kochg@europeana-local.atAIT Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

Klosterwiesgasse 32/1, 8010 GrazTel: 0316 - 83 53 59