Innovation of the Aggregation Infrastructure Henning Scholz 19/05/2015, The Hague
Jul 28, 2015
Innovation of the Aggregation Infrastructure
Henning Scholz
19/05/2015, The Hague
Europeana costs structure 2015-2021
Aggregation Infrastructure under Ev3
Who provides data to Europeana?
Europeana Aggregator Model
How does Europeana get its content?
As of Dec 2014, Europeana represents >3,300 organisations
Data provider information in different and several metadata fields
• edm:provider and edm:dataProvider
• dc:source, dcterms:provenance or dc:rights
Organisation names are not normalised and duplicate entries exist
Organisation name changes
How does Europeana get its content?
Through its aggregation structure, Europeana represents 2,300 organisations across Europe
From 150 Aggregators
As of Dec 2014, Europeana collaborates with 113 direct & unique providers
How does Europeana get its content?
As of Dec 2014, Europeana collaborates with 113 direct & unique providers
Out of these 113 providers, 76 are aggregators
38 national aggregators from 30 countries, 34 provide directly
National Aggregators
Review of the aggregator model
Data flow
Data flow reality
Europeana Aggregator Model
Europeana Aggregator Survey
Europeana Aggregator Survey
Europeana Aggregator Survey
It has to work
It needs to be scalable
We need domain and thematic expertise
It needs to be fast / efficient
Europeana Aggregator Model
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CulturaItalia and the aggregation system
CULTURAITALIANational cross-
domain aggregator
INTERNET CULTURALEThematic aggregator
for Libraries SAN
Thematic aggregator for
Archives
MUSEID-ITALIAThematic
aggregator for Museums
Regional aggregator
s
Private archives Universities
Digital Public Library of America
DPLA content hub
• One-to-one relationship with DPLA
• >200,000 unique metadata records
DPLA service hubs
• Professional development (knowledge share)
• Digitisation
• Metadata creation
• Metadata enhancement
• Data hosting
• Metadata aggregation
• Community outreach
• Single data feed into DPLAincl metadata records maintenance & enhancement
• Multiple institutions per hub
• State / regional coverage
Europeana DSI: Task 1.1 – Innovate the data and aggregation infrastructure
Devise business requirements for the new aggregation infrastructure
Investigate and develop the concept of expert hubs
Together with aggregators – 4 meetings, consultations
D1.1 Work and implementation plan to innovate the aggregation infrastructure – Jan 2016
Categorise
What If…
Common tasks of
aggregation
Agg
rega
tor
Use
/
Re-
use
Mapping
Harvesting
Enrichment