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EDLnet project
&
EDL Foundation
Archivi, Knjižnice, Muzeji
11. seminar, Poreč, 21-23
studeni 2007
Summary
• The European Commission action towards
a European Digital Library
– The EDLnet project
– The European Digital Library Foundation
• EDLnet program of work and organisation
• Work achieved so far
The Vision of the European
Commission
‘In the context of our i2010 - Digital Libraries
initiative the European Commission envisages the
creation of a European Digital Library: a unique
resource to Europe's distributed cultural heritage,
ensuring a common access to millions of great
paintings, historical writings, ancient manuscripts,
diaries of the famous and not so famous, personal
photos, and important national documents from
Europe's libraries, archives and museums.’
Horst Forster , Director Digital Content & Cognitive Systems,
EUROPE'S CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE IN A DIGITAL
WORLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, BERLIN 21-22
FEBRUARY 2007
The Vision of the European
Commission
Access
Digitisation
Preservation
Across Museums, Archives, Libraries
initially – then other data or audio or
visual repositories in the cultural
heritage arena . A Thematic Network
The European Digital Library
Centres of Competence
EDLnet - An inter domain network
• To establish trust between the institutions
– Thematic Network Partner Group
– EDL Foundation
• To make recommendations for future research to
continue to ensure access to the digital heritage
of Europe.
• Propose practical implementation of the
European Digital Library.
• The network is open for lifetime of the project to
all relevant cultural heritage institutions.
EDLnet - a thematic network for
cultural heritage domains
• EDLnet Office, in the KB (NL)
• Thematic Network Partner Group
– Across 4 domains Museums, Libraries, Archives and Audiovisual Archives
– Creating the political and technical environments necessary to
work effectively together
So Therefore:
• Determines Organisational Structure for the European Digital Library
• Creates a coalition of the willing and consensus on a roadmap
• Tackles domain level interoperability issues
• Builds prototypes against stakeholder and user requirements
Thematic Partner Network, the Workgroups
& the Network Advisory Board
WG1 Human, Political & Intercommunity
WG2.1 Standards & Interoperability of Standards
WG2.2 Semantic & Multilingual Interoperability
WG2.3 Technical Architecture
WG3 Users & Usability
Thematic
Partner
Network
EDL Foundation
Network Advisory Board
A Foundation for Cross-Domain
Governance
Purpose:
• to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural
heritage.
So the Foundation will:
• facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives,
audio-visual archives and libraries on how to cooperate
in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal.
• provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding
purposes and as a springboard for future governance.
Foundation Members can be:
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d.
e.
European Associations (legal entities) of Content
Holders;
National Associations (legal entities) of Content
Holders;
International Associations (legal entities) for the
benefit of a European branch (non legal entity) of
this association;
relevant individual institutions (legal entities) for one
of the Domains, and
natural persons for the benefit of a relevant
individual institution or association for one of the
Domains, which is not a legal entity.
Pan European Association Board of Participants
Purpose:
European Regional Branch of Intl. Council on
EURBICA
Executive Board
Martine de
Archives
Boisdeffre
cross-domain
access to Europe’s cultural
Edwin van Huis
Intl. Fed.
of Television Archives
FIAT• to provide
Association Cinémathèques Europeennes
Claudia Dillmann
ACE heritage.
European Museums Forum
Massimo Negri
EMF
Elisabeth
Conference ofwill:
European National Librarians
CENLSo the Foundation
Niggemann
• facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives,
Hans Geleijnse
Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de
LIBER audio-visual
archives and libraries on how to cooperate
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in the delivery
sustainability
of a joint
portal.
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Inventory
of Cultural Heritage
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Christophe Dessaux
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• provideEurope
a legal framework for use by the EU for funding
Wim van Drimmelen
National
of The Netherlands
KB
purposes
and Library
as a springboard
for future governance.
ICOM Europe International Council of Museums Europe
Consortium of European Research Libraries
CERL
Timeline to date
• June 29 - Small meeting of major European
Associations to discuss concept and first draft of
statutes for Foundation
• Summer 07 – agreement on Articles for Foundation
• September 12 - Founder Meeting and nominations for
Executive Committee
• November 07– Legal Foundation in place
• Statutes to Commission 27 November 07
• Next Board Meeting 28 November 07, Brussels
Projects agreed on to date:
– Apenet
– Arrow
– Athena
– EDLlocal
– EFG
Archives
Rights Management Libraries
& Publishers
Museums
Local & Regional Museums,
Libraries, Archives
Film
Projects in the pipeline
VideoActive 2
Naturalis
Art & Architecture
EDLnet Work plan 5 Work Packages
• WP1: Human, Political & Intercommunity Interoperability led by
ABM Centrum, Sweden (Mats Lindquist) and MLA, UK (Chris Batt &
David Dawson)
• WP2: Technical & Semantic Interoperability led by Stefan Gradmann
(University of Hamburg, Germany) which formerly led also the EU
Interoperability Group & Makx Dekkers with help from Carlo Meghini
(ICSTI, Italy)
• WP3: Users and Usability led by Daniel Teruggi, with help from
Philippe Poncin from the Institut National d’ Audiovisuel, France
• WP4: Concertation and Dissemination, led by Eremo s.r.l
• WP5: Management and Coordination, led by the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek, the host of The European Library who will execute the work
together with new project staff within EDLnet Office.
Organisation Map
Gottingen
British
Museum
Rijks
Univ. Lib.
Museum
The
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rest
TATE
Michael
Cervantes
Library
Large
Independents
Beeld
en Geluid
Web Service or API
European
Archive
MLA
ABM Centrum
RUNAS
Heritage Malta EUBAM
MICHAEL
EDL
Athena
EDL
Local
INA
CIMEC
ABM utvikling
National Portals or
Aggregators
Naturalis
A&A
EFG Video
Active
TEL Apenet
Domain Portals
EDL Hybrid Organisation Model
in 2 – 3 phases
Recommendations:
Phase 1
• All content partners encouraged to use an aggregator –
national portal (both cross and single domain) or vertical
aggregrator or portal to deliver their content to the
European Digital Library
– Cross domain are portals such as MLA, ABM Centrum
– Single domain are German Film Inst, INA
– Vertical are The European Library and proposed portals such as
European Film Gateway, APEnet
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To undertake further research to establish all the single
domain portals in each country and encourage
participation in EDLnet and the EDL
Data needs to be normalised at a national or
Aggregators level
EDL Hybrid Organisation Model
in 2 phases
Recommendations:
Phase 2
• All content partners not belonging to a national
or vertical aggregator or portal may submit
content using a set of standards and a tool kit to
create those standards. Must conform to the
minimum terms – need to sell the benefits of
standardisation across the sectors
• A third phase is also envisaged where EDL
actively harvests or crawls interesting content.
Other Recommendations (1)
• EDL creates both a single portal and is able to
make the information available to other portals
or learning environments
• Need to deal with as low a level of granularity as
is possible therefore need to be able to deal with
complex objects
• EDL ‘Play’ page – Results screen click to Play
page including digital image –full version of the
digital image can be displayed next but so can
all the peripheral linking, suggestion information.
Other Recommendations (2)
• Landing page should be in native
language where feasible – so automatic
translation
• EDLnet editorial
– Needs to be automatically generated by the portal
– Can also be generated by the expert or trusted
user
– It should be possible to separate out the user
generated content from the institutional.
Other recommendations (3)
• All new portals funded by the commission should insist
on the standardisation recommendations of EDLnet
• Cannot loose sight of Interoperability as the long term
goal. Data needs to work with all others in order to
produce the results the user is looking for
• Architecture should be built on preferred approach
• About Digital content but need to consider related
records for which there is no digital content – filter at
aggregator level in delivering digital content only, but
could change this later, so EDL needs to able to deal
with catalogue records as well.
Maquette & Prototype
• Prove of concepts for a user oriented common interface for
search, discovery and use across all domains contents
– Results of search are digital objects or surrogates (copyright
management)
– Multilingual interface + multilingual search features
– “Innovative, modern features that are suitable for all visitors”
(European Parliament Resolution 27 September 2007) = some
realistic vision on where we could be tomorrow
• Social web, semantic web, personalisation, collaboration, accessibility
• Maquette by January 2008
• Prototype by November 2008. 2 million objects
• Selected theme: the CITY
– Cities of the future/cities of the past ; migration and diaspora ; urban
cool and urban chic ; death, disease and drainage ; archeology and
architecture ; utopias and cities of the imagination ; riot and disorder
; palaces and politics.
European Digital Library
Interaction of EDL with providers
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aggregators
Object models
Metadata
Ingestion/Delivery Methods
Rights Management
Commercial aspects
Versioning
Object Models
• Objects vs. Representations / Surrogates
• Add abstractions (formerly Metadata)
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TOC+Index
Full text index items
Extracts / Aggregations
Links to semantic nodes
Thumbnails
Music / video abstractions: colour histograms,
Shape abstractions
Signatures
EDLnet Architecture Group
Preliminary conclusions