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EuropeanaTech - technical R&D in Europeana Antoine Isaac (input from Max Kaiser Maarten Brinkerink, Johan Oomen, Evelien Wolda, Marlies Olensky, Juliane Stiller) Europeana Project Group Meeting September 11 2012 Research and Development in Europeana context Identify Marketing Ingestion External R&D/expertise Evaluate Analyse Programme Management Implement Conceptualise Specify Product Development Network R&D Agenda EDM Tasks Foster a network of specialists from GLAM and research institutions, who can advice on technological topics when needed Develop R&D agenda for Europeana: identify trends & gaps, who is working on them, how we can support them Feeding R&D results from the scientific / open source community into the development of Europeana The EDM model is improved and incrementally updated Informing IT-related networks, e.g., the Linked Open Data or Digital Libraries communities, on Europeana-related R&D. disseminate our partners’ technological advances Supporting project: Europeanav2.0 WP7 Tasks Developers' Network Development of innovative applications for user interaction and UGC Semantic Web / Linked Data Multilingual Access / Translation Supporting network: EuropeanaTech EuropeanaTech Community Currently: • Persistent Identifiers • EDM and FRBRoo • Hierarchies Task Forces This period: • FLOSS inventory Developers Next period: • Software development From MS37 Mission Statement: "The mission of the EuropeanaTECH community is to gather task forces on specific technical points (metadata display issues, extensions to the Europeana Data Model, etc) and foster a Europeana Software Developers Network” http://pro.europeana.eu/web/ network/europeana-tech/ Output 1: Inventory of FLOSS in the Cultural Heritage Domain Output 2: Market study on semantic feature extraction Tools for the extraction of concepts and named entities Basis for decision-making for Europeana Available on EuropeanaTech Wiki as living document http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/-/wiki/Main/Market+study+on+technical+options+for+semantic+feature+extraction Two example foci: EDM and multilingual issues Focus: EDM status Focus: EDM status First implementation • Provided Objects, Web Resources, Aggregations, Agents, Concepts, Places and TimeSpans Documentation • Definitions, Primer, Mapping Guidelines, Object templates, XML schema, RDF/OWL ontology Prototyping ingestion with partners • CARARE, MIMO, HOPE, CulturaItalia Pilot export ESE->EDM as part of data.europeana.eu Ingestion chain ready in October Focus: EDM next steps Assessing input data and processes with partners • Getting mappings from original data to EDM Validate existing choices of properties Propose refinements or extensions Adapt data dissemination channels to interoperability needs • Facilitate re-use of Europeana metadata by partners and third-parties Focus: EDM next steps Metadata enrichment Linking objects to contextual resources • GeoNames, VIAF, domain-specific thesauri Linking contextual resources • Thesaurus alignment Linking objects • Clusters, FRBRization Focus: EuropeanaTech EDM task forces Model refinements on EDM Task force on Hierarchical Objects Task force on EDM-FRBRoo Application Profile http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/-/wiki/Main/Market+study+on+technical+options+for+semantic+feature+extraction http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/-/wiki/Main/Taskforce+on+hierarchical+objects http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/-/wiki/Main/Task+Force+EDM+FRBRoo Focus: multilingual issues Multilingual display, retrieval and interactions are not commonly implemented in CH websites • State-of-the-art analysis of 50 cultural heritage websites Dimensions of multilingual access Interface Search (query translation or document translation) Result presentation Browsing Europeana's efforts Interface translated into 26 languages Query translation: only prototype Query result filtering by country/language Document translation (user enabled) Semantic contextualization of objects • Multilingual enrichment/annotation of metadata Multilingual foci Focus on educating community • Multilingual dimensions and effects on display and retrieval • Multilingual handling in EDM and ESE • Ingestion of multilingual contextual resources (thesauri etc) R&D: better use of language resources • Natural language processing • NB: some of “our” resources (thesauri etc.) are also language resources! Multilingual and semantics can go hand-in-hand Fetching available linked data E.g., from libraries http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-vocabdataset/ Interoperability Encouraging the use of RDF + common and simple elements Interoperability Encourage the use of common and simple data elements <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/2308"> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="fr">Piano carré</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="it">Pianoforte a tavolino</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Square pianoforte</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="de">Tafelklavier</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="nl">Tafelpiano</skos:prefLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="sv">Taffel</skos:prefLabel> <skos:broader> <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/2273"> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Pianofortes</skos:prefLabel> </skos:Concept> </skos:broader> </skos:Concept> Multilingual Access: users back in the loop Collaborative features to improve translations Enhance provider content multilingually Multilingual user-driven data User interaction models EuropeanaTech: lessons being learnt Need for active community support • Highlight the added value to contribute to EuropeanaTech • Actively disseminate outcomes • Reach out to the wider community also outside de EU! Need to actively manage task forces: • Define stort-term, measurable goals • Provide communication support • Tasks are interleaved and should inform each other How to contribute? Several levels: organization, advice, code, data… Become a member of the EuropeanaTech community • mailing list, twitter… Designate a "technical/R&D contact point" in their project? http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/ How to contribute? React to our deliverables Contribute prototypes & demos in ThoughtLab Contribute deliverables & software to mindmaps • semantic technology • should we create other mindmaps? Contribute documented EDM metadata and mappings for next steps of EDM Participate our coming meetings • how about a joint technical meeting in 2013? http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/ Thank you! Antoine Isaac, Europeana [email protected]