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Breaking the Waves
The document discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by the overwhelming amount of data available, specifically in relation to Europe's cultural heritage through Europeana and The European Library. It highlights the importance of proper data aggregation, licensing, and quality to facilitate user discovery and reuse. Additionally, it addresses ongoing efforts to improve metadata quality and accessibility for cultural institutions across Europe.
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Breaking the Waves
- 1. Breaking the Waves Alastair Dunning (The European Library / Europeana) Discovery Summit London, Feb 2013 @alastairdunning
- 6. “There is atsunami of data that is crashing onto the beaches of the civilized world. This is a tidal wave of unrelated, growing data formed in bits and bytes, coming in an unorganized, uncontrolled, incoherent cacophony of foam…. we see graphic designers and government officials, all getting their shoes wet and slowly submerging in the dense trough of stuff…. they walk stupidly into the water, smiling—a false smile of confidence and control. The tsunami is a wall of data—data produced at a greater and greater speed … in amounts that double, it seems, with each sunset ....
- 7. ... [Thankfully] Google mastered the technical art of the search.” http://intdev.stc.org/2012/02/question-information-quest-inform/
- 8. But Europeana’s Trusted data from aims are different European cultural heritage
- 9. Before that -a quick aside
- 10. Europeana - Europe’scultural heritage portal • 26m (Feb 2013) metadata records from 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries • Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers... Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs… Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts… • Only links to digitised content • 31 languages • Started in 2007 • Based in National Library of Netherlands
- 11. The European Library(TEL) Europe’s library aggregator • Centrally indexes 115m bibliographic records, plus 16m digital links • 48 National Libraries of Europe • Plus 19 research libraries • Links to digitised content and bibliographic records at libraries • Started in 1990s - ‘Mother’ of Europeana. Now aggregates content for Europeana • Also hosted in National Library of Netherlands
- 12. National Museums Aggregator Libraries Film & Sound National Aggregator Europeana Archaeological Heritage Other Archives Cultural Heritage
- 13. National ATHENA The Aggregator European Library Euro. Film Gateway Culture Grid (UK) Europeana CARARE ApeNet Other Aggregators
- 14. National ATHENA The Aggregator European Library Euro. Film Gateway Culture Grid (UK) Europeana CARARE ApeNet Other Aggregators
- 15. Italian Spanish National Libraries National Library French National Library German National Library British Library and another 43 national libraries National The Aggregator European Library 19 research libraries and RLUK Culture Grid (UK) Europeana
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- 17. The obvious wayof exposing data: Europeana Portal
- 18. More contemporary dissemination: Europeana API
- 19. More contemporary dissemination: Europeana Linked Open Data
- 20. More contemporary dissemination: Europeana SPARQL Endpoint (experimental / temporary URL in 2013)
- 21. Linked Data & aggregation of data for others - source and quality of data is paramount
- 22. Europeana and TEL are testing the waters of resource discovery
- 23. Are we making progress? And what is impeding progress ?
- 24. The European Libraryto release >115m bibliographic records to be released as CC0 this year (2013) API and Linked Data to be published this Working with RLUK year (2013) as well to release members’ metadata as linked data
- 25. 22m+ metadata records releasedas CC0 by Europeana c.2,200 institutions
- 26. Some of largest culturaldatasets in the world Hooray !
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- 29. 97% of linksresolve properly
- 30. 660,000 (c.3%) of recordshave broken links
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- 32. 64% of records do not come with clear licensing about the content
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- 34. Current licence distributionin Europeana (end of 2012) Europeana has launched a rights labelling campaign to improve this
- 35. and even when metadata is technically well formed ... it might not help user discovery
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- 37. User path ? Thisexample leads to the user to a copyright message in German, then then the jpeg without any metadata
- 39. Lack of context ? Again, the user is led to a jpg without any explanation of the image
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- 41. The perils of basicsearch
- 42. And of course semanticdifferences
- 43. Much of thisis ‘basics’ - licencing, permanent URIs, quality of metadata intelligent URIs
- 44. More complex issues such as semantics and clustering of records and relevancy ... ... are being addressed by the Europeana Data Model
- 45. no point aggregatingif you can’t reuse
- 46. for europeana andTEL, finding re(users) is critical
- 47. Europeana API: 77prototypes based on Europeana data
- 48. Multimedia HTML5 MusicPlayer
- 49. Stackathon - ArtworkAudio Annotations
- 50. API Implementation byRoyal Museum for Central Africa
- 51. API Implementation byDigital New Zealand
- 52. Europeana exposes content to HistoryPin, Wikipedia, Pinterest, among others
- 53. How do Iget involved?
- 54. Text Culture Grid -UK Aggregator
- 55. The European Library- Europe’s library aggregator
- 56. Europeana Network Open forumfor cultural heritage community
- 57. Following the guidelines form the Discovery Programme will also help
- 58. Adopting open licencing Optimising data for reuse Ensuring data currency and accuracy Clear and documented APIs
- 59. So rather than Canuteholding back the waves ...
- 60. HMS Discovery chartingnew waters. Thank you !
- 61. Screenshots / ImageCredits Slide 1 - http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/vicpopmus/t/zoomify87477.html Slide 4 - http://www.googleartproject.com/en-gb/collection/freer-gallery-of-art-smithsonian/artwork/waves-at-matsushima-tawaraya-sotatsu/326469/ Slide 5 - http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/browse/canute Slide 8 - http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS1209_131 " Slide 21 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/visulogik/99768766/ Slide 22 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ogil/25304809/ Slide 28-30 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreiz/1089900128/ Slide 31-32 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ztephen/3923577405/ Slide 36 - http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/search?query=canute Slide 37 - Start at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000082153642 Slide 38 - Start at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000128081500? Slide 40 - http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/search?query=the%20ruler%20of%20the%20sea Slide 41 -http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000085282188?query=canute Slide 42 - http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000068816371 Slides 45,46 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusq/3032678489/ Slide 47 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/epsiplatform/5579883591 Slide 60 - http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/collection/photos-british-arctic-expedition-1875-76/ls99-3-9?mode=giant