6. What is ?
• Cross search
• Mashup
• Platform for UGC
• Lab for LOD
7.
8. Google maps
Google maps
Street view
Street view
Panoramio
Panoramio
Query results
Query results
Wikipedia (UGC)
Wikipedia (UGC)
Wikimedia
Wikimedia
Wikimedia (UGC)
Wikimedia (UGC)
LOD via SOCH
LOD via SOCH
Agents
Agents
Events
Events
Royal Armory Museum (SOCH)
Royal Armory Museum (SOCH) etc
etc
15. Google
API
Tidsresan/
Museisök Kringla.nu
Time Mash
Fornfynd IOS
API
K-SAMSÖK
Wikipedia
WebService
Libris
XML
?
Läns-
Läns-
Läns-
museum
RAÄ Läns-
museum Hembygds-
Läns- Kommun-
MUSEUM museum
Fornsök museum
museum museum museum UGC
Hinweis der Redaktion
A few words about the NHB implementation of Europeana API in our cross search service called Kringla (pretzel).
NHB has been around since 1630. Its first task was to collect information on ancient monuments in order to prove the great antiquity of Sweden and prove its position as an awesome nation in the World. Now, 380 years later we have a slightly different focus. NHB is nowadays more devoted to historical environment issues on a national level and following the operational work on the regional level. In short.
The most important digital collections that NHB manages, consists of metadata of ancient monuments and protected buildings and they count some 1 million objects together
NHB is also owner of Swedish Open Cultural Heritage: aggregates historical environment data and data from some 20 museums. Today SOCH holds metadata for some 4.4 million items (2.2 to be found in the Europeana index). (SOCH is basically the same thing as Europeana but more limited to historical environment and museum collection, including archive documents, mainly photographs.)
We are also busy implementing new practices like: Removed obstacles concerning use of data (mindset) Get a good grip of copyright law and how it´s applied, implementing Creative Commons licenses. Implement techniques that support linked open data, tools for crowdsourcing and so forth. I´d say that 90 % of our time has been been devoted to deal with issues related to mindset, IPR and licensing. And the remaining 10 % goes for figuring out technology for all this stuff. But now over to something different Kringla:
Kringla.nu is a: Cross search Mashup Platform for UGC Lab for LOD It looks like this:
First a quick look what Kringla is all about. This is an example of an object presentation >>
Kringla.nu query and uses data from several sources - Wikipedia - Wikimedia - Linked data from SOCH - Google Maps
This search result page gives you an idea how Europeana is integrated in the interface:
When we started out to implement the Europeana API, the Kringla application was already deployed. And thanks to the standardized technology - both at our end and at the Europeana´s - it was very easy to link both services. After some discussions how to present a results from a query in Kringla etc etc the estimated time for implementation was 6 hours of programming. In reality it took 3 hours, at a cost of 350 euros. So it was not very costly or complicated.
Summing up the “whys”!
"If your content is not interoperable, it's not findable. If it's not findable, who cares about it?"