Europeana

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Europeana Digital Humanities ?

• Antoine Isaac

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Europeana a high-level vision

• Better serving our already identified audience
• Including researchers, students
• Contextualized objects and data to build
  innovative, more sophisticated tools (scholarly
  inference?)
• Reaching new audiences
• When people use data to create things like APIs
  and Mashups, they put your content in new places.

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Facilitating access to digitized objects

• Helping users to find relevant objects
• On our portal or via general search engines like
  Google
• Trying to reach users where they are (fitting
  their workflow)
• Provide APIs, search widgets to be included in
  others websites
• Pointing to digitized representations on
  providers sites
• Which can be viewed or exploited by computer
  means
• Reminder the only data Europeana has is metadata

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Positioning Europeana as a reference hub for
cultural objects

• Unified access
• One single site for users
• Unified data access points (API, linked data)
• Using the same model and protocols for 15M
  objects coming from 1500 providers
• Authoritative access
• Integrating relevant objects
• Integrating reference data

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Facilitating re-use of object and their data

• Object citation
• Towards stable identifiers for millions of
  objects
• Europeana objects can be referred to by external
  data publishers
• E.g., a research paper being about an object in
  Europeana
• Data re-use
• Making re-use technically easy API, linked data
• Making data open
• Target data consumers wanting (contextualized)
  data relevant for their activities

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Note bringing value for Europeana providers

• Getting more traffic to their site
• More visibility for their objects
• More re-use of the data they curate
• More influence over data on their objects

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Note bringing value for everyone?

• 1. Everyone can re-use Europeana data instead of
  creating it
• E.g., data for scientific papers doesnt have to
  re-define data for an object for which Europeana
  provides it already
• 2. Europeana can re-use others data which it or
  its providers cannot produce
• Embedding citations to other reference resources
• Exploit reference data for better object
  accessthesauri, gazetteers

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Work in progress

• More flexible, richer data model EDM
• More open data
• Ensuring better data quality integrating and
  enriching
• Provide more/better services

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Questions Europeana and digital humanities?
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Diversity of resources

• Europeana is involved in projects that can bring
  useful data for digital humanities
• CARARE
• ECLAP
• European Film Gateway
• Europeana Regia
• Europeana Travel
• HOPE
• JUDAICA
• MIMO
• .
• http//version1.europeana.eu/web/guest/home

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Buddhist sculptures?

• ?

http//europeana.eu/portal/record/92037/42A234D443
0488E7B40BC54EC80948DA0927212D.html
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Watermarks?
?
http//europeana.eu/portal/record/09802/FF97676F40
7086980E9074295BD572EBFADA1832.html
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Residents of house number 4 in Inchicore Road,
North Side with Spencer and St. Jude's Terrace
(New Kilmainham, Dublin)?
?
http//europeana.eu/portal/record/15402/BF41E68783
7E8455FEE75DD6C9BBEE44BFE69127.html
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Farmacia del Cinghiale?
?
http//europeana.eu/portal/record/02307/43D393F330
A4F8F11A618845EF8B3F07A6A47BF5.html
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Mr Designer?
?
http//europeana.eu/portal/record/09405a/B7ABDE352
ACF71B0CB09AAFDAC8683BC653441F8.html
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Now what?

• We can provide access to a lot of stuff
• Weve got a vision, and were really committed to
  it
• But what should Europeana do, really?
• Were not real problem owners you are!

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Can anyone provide use cases?

• We keep in mind that variety comes at a price
  heterogeneity
• Our services cant be as specific as the ones of,
  say, TEL
• See coming talk
• But even just serving data and references can be
  an art
• Interfaces, models
• How about integration and enriching?
• We need to know more on requirements which could
  impact our job

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Example of concrete questions

• Content sourcing
• Which providers to focus on?
• Interoperability
• Which metadata profile(s) should Europeana be
  aligned with?
• Which dissemination channels for exporting our
  data?
• Data curation
• What reference data to link to?
• Vocabularies, object data sets
• Collaboration in the DH field
• THATCamps? Digging into Data Challenge?

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Thanks!