Aggregation going forward. Presentation at the Europeana Aggregator Forum 2015

1. Innovation of the Aggregation Infrastructure
Henning Scholz
19/05/2015, The Hague

2. Europeana costs structure 2015-2021

3. Aggregation Infrastructure under Ev3

4. Who provides data
to Europeana?

5. Europeana Aggregator Model

6. How does Europeana get its content?
 As of Dec 2014, Europeana represents >3,300 organisations
 Data provider information in different and several metadata fields
• edm:provider and edm:dataProvider
• dc:source, dcterms:provenance or dc:rights
 Organisation names are not normalised and duplicate entries exist
 Organisation name changes

7. How does Europeana get its content?
 Through its aggregation structure, Europeana represents 2,300
organisations across Europe
 From 150 Aggregators
 As of Dec 2014, Europeana collaborates with 113 direct & unique
providers

8. How does Europeana get its content?
 As of Dec 2014, Europeana collaborates with 113 direct & unique
providers
 Out of these 113 providers, 76 are aggregators
 38 national aggregators from 30 countries, 34 provide directly

9. National Aggregators

10. Review of the aggregator model

11. Data flow

12. Data flow reality

13. Europeana Aggregator Model

14. Europeana Aggregator Survey

15. Europeana Aggregator Survey

16. Europeana Aggregator Survey
 It has to work
 It needs to be scalable
 We need domain and thematic expertise
 It needs to be fast / efficient

17. Europeana Aggregator Model
?

18. CulturaItalia and the aggregation system
CULTURAITALIA
National cross-
domain
aggregator
INTERNET CULTURALE
Thematic aggregator for
Libraries
SAN
Thematic aggregator
for Archives
MUSEID-ITALIA
Thematic aggregator
for Museums
Regional
aggregators
Private
archives Universities

19. Digital Public Library of America
DPLA content hub
• One-to-one relationship with DPLA
• >200,000 unique metadata records
DPLA service hubs
• Professional development (knowledge share)
• Digitisation
• Metadata creation
• Metadata enhancement
• Data hosting
• Metadata aggregation
• Community outreach
• Single data feed into DPLA
incl metadata records maintenance & enhancement
• Multiple institutions per hub
• State / regional coverage

20. Europeana DSI: Task 1.1 – Innovate the
data and aggregation infrastructure
 Devise business requirements for the new aggregation
infrastructure
 Investigate and develop the concept of expert hubs
 Together with aggregators – 4 meetings, consultations
 D1.1 Work and implementation plan to innovate the
aggregation infrastructure – Jan 2016

21. Categorise

22. What If…
Common
tasks of
aggregation
Aggregator
Use/
Re-use
Mapping
Harvesting
Enrichment

23. Thank you!
Henning Scholz
henning.scholz@europeana.eu