Presentation at a seminar on linked data and art museums at the Smithsonian Institute, April 29 2013. Other presentations at http://lodlam.net/2013/05/07/linked-open-data-in-art/

1. Antoine Isaac
Scientific Coordinator, Europeana
American Art Collaborative LOD Meeting
Smithsonian American Art Museum, April 29, 2013

2. What is
Europeana?

3. Europeana’s vision and mission
 Europeana is a catalyst for change in the world of
cultural heritage.
 Our vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly
accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas
and information.

4. Strategic Plan
 Engage – We cultivate new ways
for people to participate in their
cultural heritage
 Aggregate – We are building the open,
trusted source for European cultural content
 Facilitate – We support the cultural
heritage sector through knowledge
transfer, innovation and advocacy
 Distribute – We make heritage available to
people wherever they are, whenever they
want it

5. Europeana.eu, Europe’s cultural heritage portal
Museums
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
26M objects from 2,200 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries

6. What types of objects does Europeana gives access to?
Text Image Video Sound 3D

7. Aggregating museum data
Individual museums may provide data directly, but the
vast majority goes/went through vast aggregators
 EuropeanaLocal
 ATHENA
 Linked Heritage
 various national aggregators

8. Europeana and open
data

9. What Europeana makes available
Metadata
Link to digital
objects online

10. Content (digital objects on the site of the provider)
Metadata (descriptive object information)
Different
options
Two categories of rights
CC

11. Rights Statements for content
Open
Not open – but
clear
Not
open

12. Accessing and re-using
Europeana data

13. How do users access Europeana
content?
Europeana aims to provide content in the users’ workflow –
where they want it, when they want it.
 Europeana.eu portal
 Project portals/exhibitions
 Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest)…
 Websites and apps using Europeana data independently

14. Europeana’s as infrastructure open for re-use
Europeana data available via
 API
 Search widgets
 Semantic mark-up (schema.org) on portal
 Linked Open Data pilot
http://pro.europeana.eu/api
http://data.europeana.eu

15. http://agris.fao.org/openagris/

16. http://www.digibis.com/dpla-europeana/

17. Hackathons to develop innovative new apps
http://pro.europeana.eu/hackathon-prototypes

18. Innovation - Searching
http://eculture.cs.vu.nl/europeana/ query : “Dieppe”

19. Innovation - annotating
Pundit @ DM2E project http://dm2e.eu

20. Take-home message
We can think of and build plenty cool things, but
metadata openness and shared data models are
crucial

21. Useful links
 Europeana portal europeana.eu
 Europeana Thought Lab pro.europeana.eu/thoughtlab/
 Europeana end-user blog blog.europeana.eu/
 Europeana Professional pro.europeana.eu
 Europeana Professional blog pro.europeana.eu/blog
 Facebook facebook.com/Europeana
 Twitter twitter.com/EuropeanaEU

22. Thank you
Antoine Isaac
aisaac@few.vu.nl