1. co-funded by the European Union
WP1 - Content
DM2E All WP Meeting 5
Bergen, 12 June 2014
Doron Goldfarb, Austrian National Library (ONB)

2. Outline
1. WP1 Last six months
2. New associated partners
3. Current status of content providers
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3. WP1 Last six months
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 112.06.2014
• WP1 Task 1.3 and 1.4 completed
• WP1 Task 1.5 “Final content integration” ongoing
• Deliverable D1.2 “Final Integration Report”
• Review meeting March 2014
• Europeana ingestion tests
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4. WP1 Task 1.3 and 1.4 completed
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 Task 1.3
Testing the User Interface for Creating Mapping (MINT),
Interlinking Heuristics (SILK) and for Configuring the Workflow
(OMNOM)
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5. WP1 Task 1.3 – General Conclusion
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 1
• Three approaches seeking to provide visual paradigms to data
integration tasks
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6. WP1 Task 1.3 – General Conclusion
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• Visual interfaces provide intuitive starting point for novice
users
• Simple tasks can be managed successfully
• The more complex the tasks get, the more users switch to
command line tools provided by WP2 for fulfilling their
tasks
• Visual, web based interfaces sometimes have problems
with logging and progress feedback
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7. WP1 Task 1.4 - Setup a test scenario for
the prototype platform
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• Assess the scholarly research platform
• ONB, UIB, NET7, UBER, ECORR
• Focus on usability and usefulness for DH scholars
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8. WP1 Task 1.4 - Setup a test scenario for
the prototype platform
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• Two groups of digital humanities scholars
• Exercises, Surveys, Discussion with DH Scholars
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9. WP1 Task 1.4 - Setup a test scenario for
the prototype platform
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 1
Results Wittgenstein Pilot Group
DH scholars of the test group could
imagine using the platform for a variety
of scenarios such as
• Propaedeutic uses
• Close reading
• Creating citation networks
• Collaborative research scenarios
• Teaching
• Refining ontologies
DH solutions in the LOD context
• Discussions about the publication
status of semantic annotations
• Credibility
• Intellectual property rights
• Characteristics of ontologies
12.06.2014
Results Burckhardtsource Group
Pundit systematically used for
proofreading and semantic annotation
• The reader is facilitated in his
understanding of the sources
• More experienced users are also able
to create "intellectual mappings" of
an author
• Topics and interesting fields can be
highlighted
• Semantic annotations are both useful
for the scholars working with the
material and for others who may
want to re-use the semantically
enriched data
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10. WP1 Last six months
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 112.06.2014
• WP1 Task 1.3 and 1.4 completed
• WP1 Task 1.5 “Final content integration” ongoing
• Deliverable D1.2 “Final Integration Report”
• Review meeting March 2014
• Europeana ingestion tests
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11. WP1 Task 1.5 –
Organise the final content integration
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 112.06.2014
• Consistency check of metadata revealed need for clear
guidelines how to map data to DM2E
• Document: „Recommendations for the RDF
representation of DM2E metadata”
• Seven providers out of 16 delivered metadata about
~17,550,000 pages until February 2014
• Mapping documentation on DM2E wiki
http://wiki.dm2e.eu/Main_Page
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12. WP1 Last six months
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 112.06.2014
• WP1 Task 1.3 and 1.4 completed
• WP1 Task 1.5 “Final content integration” ongoing
• Deliverable D1.2 “Final Integration Report”
• Review meeting March 2014
• Europeana ingestion tests
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13. D1.2 Final Integration Report
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 112.06.2014
• February 2014
• Detailed descriptions of
Content Provider workflows
• Results of Task 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
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14. Review
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 112.06.2014
• Deliverable 1.2 approved
• At the time of review, five of nine providers listed in the
DoW and two associate providers had delivered their
data.
• Reviewers asked for additional report on reasons for
delayed content until end of April 2014  Delivered
April 30th.
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15. Europeana ingestions tests
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 112.06.2014
• Conversion from DM2E to EDM
• Test set of 34 metadata records ingested
• Discussion during extra session
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16. Outline
1. WP1 Last six months
2. New associated partners
3. Current status of content providers
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17. New associated partners
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 112.06.2014
• Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum / Petőfi Literary Museum
www.pim.hu
– Participated in Athena / Athena Plus / Europeana Inside
– Plan to provide digital facsimiles and transcriptions of the
Hungarian avant-garde magazine “A Tett” to DM2E
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18. Outline
1. WP1 Last six months
2. New associated partners
3. Current status of content providers
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19. WP1 Current status of content providers
DM2E All WP Meeting Bergen: Work Package 112.06.2014
ONB
ABO 15596190
CODICES 46104
MPIWG
HARRIOT 10138
RARA 532379
UBER DINGLER 181549
BBAW DTA 418608
UIB WITTGENSTEINSOURCE 5000
SBB KPE 182892
UBFFM SAMMLUNGEN 307202
GEI GEI-DIGITAL 456324
17736386
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20. WP1 Current status of content providers
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CJH via EAJC various 400000
NLI
MANUSCRIPTS 110000
BOOKS 2750000
ARCHIVAL MAT. 3000
SBB WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS 45000
MPIWG ISMI 100000
DFGA/CRNS NIETZSCHESOURCE 19330
JDC via EAJC various 20000
BRANDEIS via EAJC SPANISH CIVIAL WAR POSTERS 150
ECORR BURCKHARDTSOURCE 2834
BAS Codex Suprasliensis 570
KB Manuscript Illuminations 11141
3442695
MARC
EAD
TEI
DC(X)
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21. co-funded by the European Union
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