Mapping the European(a) metadata landscape Sally Chambers, The European Library http://www.twitter.com/schambers3 http://www.slideshare.net/schambers3 Describing the digital object Irish Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Seminar 25 th February 2011, Dublin, Ireland
Describing the Digital Object, Irish Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Seminar, 25th February 2011, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Mapping the European(a) metadata landscape
Sally Chambers, The European Libraryhttp://www.twitter.com/schambers3
http://www.slideshare.net/schambers3Describing the digital object
Irish Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Seminar 25th February 2011, Dublin, Ireland
Outline
• The European(a) metadata landscape• Metadata interoperability in libraries • Cross-domain metadata interoperability • Towards the future: the Europeana Data Model• Beyond metadata: full-text content
Europeana: the vision
“A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European cultural heritage.”
European Parliament, 27 September 2007
Europeana: the vision
“A unique resource for Europe's distributed cultural heritage… ensuring a common access to Europe's libraries, archives and museums. Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Information Society Directorate, European Commission
What is Europeana?
20102008
15 million objects1500 participating institutionsA lot of metadata!
• Moves beyond the Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE)• represents lowest common denominator for object metadata• forces interoperability• major drawback: richness of the original metadata is lost
• Goal of the Europeana Data Model • preserve richness of the original data while still allowing for
interoperability• Facilitate participation in the semantic web
Enables browsing through related objects
European(a) metadata landscape
Moving towards semantic interoperabilitySemantic Network
Networked object representations
Moves metadata from 2 dimensions to 3
From isolated metadata islands….
Moving from XML to RDF....
XML represents knowledge as trees RDF represents knowledge as networks of nodes and graphs
1. Understand the Europeana Data Model!2. Explore how we can apply the Europeana Data Model
to library metadata3. Validate the draft Europeana Data Model for libraries
with real-world metadata4. Implement the Europeana Data Model for libraries
with metadata from national, university and public libraries
5. Create library-specific documentation and training materials
Beyond metadata: full-text content
Beyond metadata: full-text content
You don’t need metadata … it’s full-text after all !?!
Beyond metadata: full-text content
Beyond metadata: full-text content
Beyond metadata: full-text content
Beyond metadata: full-text content
Beyond metadata: full-text content
Beyond metadata: full-text content
Europeana Data Model for full-text content?
Overview
• The European(a) metadata landscape• Metadata interoperability in libraries • Cross-domain metadata interoperability • Towards the future: the Europeana Data Model• Beyond metadata: full-text content