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Page 1: All WP Meeting Athens - Europeana Inside - Gordon McKenna
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Collections Trust and EC-funded Projects

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EUROPEANA INSIDE

Creating the missing link

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Mission

To support the Digital Agenda for Europe by achieving a lasting transformation in the quantity, scope and usability of the data available to Europeana from European cultural institutions.

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Network of Projects

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Basics

• Best Practice Network (ICT-PSP program)• 26 participants• 10 countries• 30 months (1 April 2012 – 30 September 2014)• 960,000 records added to Europeana• 6 work packages • Website: www.europeana-inside.eu

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Countries

• United Kingdom• The Netherlands• Belgium• Greece• Germany

• Slovenia• Hungary• France• Sweden• Portugal

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Partners

• Collections Trust, UK• Knowledge Integration Ltd, UK• Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, GE• zetcom, GE• Postscriptum Information Architecture, GR• Stichting Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland, NL• System Simulation Ltd, UK• Universiteit Leuven, BE• Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, HU• KE Software Ltd, UK• Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, BE• Petőfi Irodalmi Muzeum, HU• National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, GR

• iMinds, BE• Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, HU • Stichting Europeana, NL• Adlib Information Systems, NL• Stiftelsen Länsmuseet Västernorrland Slv, SW• Monguz Ltd, HU• Semantika, SI• Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, BE• Skinsoft, FR• Benaki Museum, GR• House of Images (Xantys Ltd), UK• Ecomuseu Municipial do Seixal, PT• Mobydoc, FR

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Associate Partners

• British Museum, UK• ETHER, South Africa• Collections Information Technology (Cit), NL• Instituut Beeld & Geluid, NL• Gallery Systems, USA• Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PL• Rijskdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, NL• Orangeleaf Systems, UK• Digisam, SE• Axiell, UK• Museum of National Liberation Maribor, SI• Picturae, NL• Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, HR• National Library of Latvia, LV• The Public Library “Vladislav Petković Dis”, RS• Božidar Jakac Art Museum, SI • 17. AlliiertenMuseum, DE

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Objectives

• To open up new digital cultural content for Europeana• To simplify significantly the process of contributing data to Europeana• To help overcome participation barriers by part-automating the

workflow and creating tools for the management of permissions and licensing

• To ensure that current and future generations of Collections and Digital Asset Management Software are ‘Europeana-ready’

• To support metadata enrichment in Data Provider systems

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Europeana Connection Kit (ECK)

• A set of open-source software tools• Connects CMS to an aggregator• Simple and easy to use• Lowers participation barriers• Supports metadata enrichment

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Tool Box containing:

• Open Source Software

• User Manual

• Documentation

• Training

ECK is ....

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ECK – Overview

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ECK – Requirements Analysis

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ECK – Aggregation model

• LIDO export for museum partners• MARC export for library partner• Standard LIDO to EDM and MARC to EDM

mapping• Use of aggregators: national, regional, dark

aggregator

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ECK – Development: April 2012 – September 2014

Iteration 2Iteration 2Iteration 1Iteration 1 Iteration 4Iteration 4Iteration 3Iteration 3

1. Manage

2. Select

3. Prepare

4.Validate

5.Supply

6.Data Acceptance

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ECK - Iterative development i1

Iteration 1Iteration 1

Iteration 1: Manage and select .....

• April 2013, testing - June 2013• Test procedure, communication plan Testing groups• Barriers• Results Users' expectations• Actions

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Europeana Inside – Testing groups

Testing Group 1Testing Group 1 Testing Group 2Testing Group 2 Testing Group 4Testing Group 4 Testing Group 3/5Testing Group 3/5

Knowledge Integration

Collections Trust KE software

Xantys Limited System Sim.

Knowledge Integration

Collections Trust KE software

Xantys Limited System Sim.

ZetcomPostScriptum

BenakiNational Gallery

KMKGSt. Pr.

Kulturbesitz

ZetcomPostScriptum

BenakiNational Gallery

KMKGSt. Pr.

Kulturbesitz

MonguzSemantika

Petöfi Szepmuveszeti

Magyar Nemzeti

MonguzSemantika

Petöfi Szepmuveszeti

Magyar Nemzeti

AdlibLIBIS

iMindsS.L. Västernorrland

Mobydoc SKINsoft

Município do SeixalKADOCRBINS

DEN

AdlibLIBIS

iMindsS.L. Västernorrland

Mobydoc SKINsoft

Município do SeixalKADOCRBINS

DEN

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Iteration 2Iteration 2Iteration 1Iteration 1

ECK - Iterative development i2

Iteration 2: Enhanced management, status and data publication …

September 2013, testing – October 2013• Test group meetings• Results …• Marks the start of data aggregation and delivery to Europeana…

Technical Integration Report (October 2013)• All partners report progress on integrating ECK functionality• All CMS-side functions ‘complete’ or ‘under development’• Good progress on integrating validation and transformation features• Most ECK functions to be available to customers before end of project• MARC export for library partner• Standard LIDO to EDM and MARC to EDM mapping• Use of aggregators: national, regional, dark aggregator

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Iteration 2Iteration 2Iteration 1Iteration 1 Iteration 4Iteration 4Iteration 3Iteration 3

ECK - Iterative development i3 & i4

Iteration 3: Data re-ingestion and data push

• March 2014, testing - May 2014

Iteration 4: Production version!

• July 2014, final testing and bug fixing - August 2014

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Impact – Creating the missing link

• Far-reaching and transformative• Start of a partnership between CMS vendors

and cultural institutes• Open up potential for more than 7000 other

cultural institutions to deliver data to Europeana and other targets

• Open up this data to the outside world for creative reuse

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Vision of the future

The Europeana Inside outputs, and particularly the Europeana Connection Kit, will be adopted by every Collections Management software supplier and their museum, library and archive clients throughout Europe to transform the quantity, scope and accessibility of digital cultural heritage for the public.

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Forward plan – viability and sustainability

What will happen after the project…

The forward plan will focus on•The future development potential of the ECK•The maintenance of the Best Practice Network•The promotion and advocacy of the Europeana Inside outputs to new partners

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Join Us

www.twitter.com/EuropeanaInside

www.facebook.com/EuropeanaInside

Subscribe to our Newsletter:

www.europeana-inside.eu/newsletter

Become an Associate Partner:

www.europeana-inside.eu/partners/

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Further Information

Website: www.europeana-inside.eu

Gordon McKenna:

[email protected]