Presentation by: Valentine Charles, kate Fernie, Antoine Isaac, Dimitris Gavrillis, Stavros Angelis and Costis Dallas EuropeansTech Conference February 2015

1. Achieving interoperability between the
CARARE schema for monuments and sites
and the Europeana Data Model
Valentine Charles, Kate Fernie,
Antoine Isaac, Dimitris Gavrilis, Stavros Angelis and
Costis Dallas
EuropeanaTech Conference
February 2015

2. Ceci n’est pas un monument archéologiq

3. This is a photo of part of a monument

4. We can see more of the monument from the
air

5. but what’s going on beneath the surface?

6. lots of different sources of information

7. help build up the picture of the monument
and our understanding

8. And make this available online

9. Achieving interoperability with Europeana
We made a mapping between EDM and the CARARE metadata
schema: finding correspondences between the elements of both
models
Helps users of the CARARE schema to send good metadata to
Europeana
Why is it important to report on this?
 Mapping is rarely an easy issue
 Models are complex, with subtle differences in world views
 Both CARARE and Europeana benefits from “mapping meditation”
One of the hardest (confronting) metadata exercises!
 Sharing concrete experiences benefits all Europeana partners

10. How does this look in Europeana?

11. Provided Cultural Heritage Object (CHO),
WebResource and Aggregation
edm:ProvidedCHO
407444
dc:description
“De Snip“@nl
De Snip, 3, Heidenskipsterdyk, It
Heidenskip, 8724 HP, Súdwest
Fryslân, Friesland, Nederland@nl
Terpstra, Frank
“Molen“@nledm:Place
"iid:2386070/SP.1"
dc:title
dc:creator
dcterms:spatial
skos:prefLabel
edm:rights
edm:WebResource
http://images.memorix.nl/rce/thumb/
800x800/7ad616d8-8657-c299-102b-2e793ffccb0c.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/3.0/
ore:Aggregation
"DR_20539354"
edm:ProvidedCHO
407444
edm:WebResource
http://images.memorix.nl/rce/thumb/
800x800/7ad616d8-8657-c299-102b-2e793ffccb0c.jpg
edm:aggregatedCHO
edm:provider
Rijksdienst voor het
Cultureel Erfgoed
edm:dataProvider
edm:isShownBy

12. Creating EDM resources from CARARE data
CARARE’s Heritage Assets give rise to one EDM ProvidedCHOs
with its companion Aggregation
The most important issues are
 How to represent the monument in EDM and the Europeana platform
 Whether there are one or many CHOs
edm:ProvidedCHO
HA:PamFond/1978155
ore:Aggregation
http://store.carare.eu/uid/ii
d:1655549/HA:PamFond/
1978155
Heritage Asset’s
identifier
PamFond/1978155

13. edm:isRepresentationOf
edm:ProvidedCHO 1
edm:ProvidedCHO 4edm:ProvidedCHO 2
Scenario 1: Monuments are represented as CARARE HA
and digital resources also count as CHOs
edm:ProvidedCHO 3

14. edm:isRepresentationOf
edm:ProvidedCHO 1
edm:webResource3edm:webResource1 edm:webResource2
Scenario 2: Digital Resources are views of lesser cultural
importance and are treated as EDM Web Resources

15. Contextual Resources – e.g., Places
CARARE’s geospatial
enrichment represented with
EDM contextual resource
class

16. Contextual Resources – Events
CARARE’s event data can be
represented in EDM Event
class but not yet implemented
in Europeana
edm:hasMet
edm:event
edm:ProvidedCHO 1

17. Conclusions
CARARE provides better “profile” for archaeology/architecture heritage
and rich metadata for Europeana
In the process of mapping
 We identified non-trivial issues
 We documented solutions (CARARE->EDM case study)
 It prompted updates to CARARE’s schema (3D ICONS project)
 It confirms the relevance of a richer model like EDM for Europeana
 Human supervision remains crucial for choosing the right option
Data curators can help here
as with many other quality issues in data aggregation projects!
http://www.pro.europeana.eu/carare-edm
http://www.carare.eu/eng/Resources/CARARE-Documentation

18. Thank you!
Questions?
Valentine Charles, Kate Fernie,
Antoine Isaac, Costis Dallas, Dimitris Gavrilis, Stavros Angelis