4. Mission
To support the Digital Agenda for Europe by
achieving a lasting transformation in the quantity,
scope and usability of the data available to
Europeana from European cultural institutions.
6. Basics
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Best Practice Network (ICT-PSP program)
26 participants
10 countries
30 months (1 April 2012 – 30 September 2014)
960,000 records added to Europeana
6 work packages
Website: www.europeana-inside.eu
8. Partners
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Collections Trust, UK
Knowledge Integration Ltd, UK
Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, GE
zetcom, GE
Postscriptum Information Architecture, GR
Stichting Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland, NL
System Simulation Ltd, UK
Universiteit Leuven, BE
Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, HU
KE Software Ltd, UK
Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en
Geschiedenis, BE
Petőfi Irodalmi Muzeum, HU
National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos
Museum, GR
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iMinds, BE
Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, HU
Stichting Europeana, NL
Adlib Information Systems, NL
Stiftelsen Länsmuseet
Västernorrland Slv, SW
Monguz Ltd, HU
Semantika, SI
Institut Royal des Sciences
Naturelles de Belgique, BE
Skinsoft, FR
Benaki Museum, GR
House of Images (Xantys Ltd), UK
Ecomuseu Municipial do Seixal, PT
Mobydoc, FR
9. Associate Partners
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British Museum, UK
ETHER, South Africa
Collections Information Technology (Cit), NL
Instituut Beeld & Geluid, NL
Gallery Systems, USA
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PL
Rijskdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, NL
Orangeleaf Systems, UK
Digisam, SE
Axiell, UK
Museum of National Liberation Maribor, SI
Picturae, NL
Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, HR
National Library of Latvia, LV
The Public Library “Vladislav Petković Dis”, RS
Božidar Jakac Art Museum, SI
17. AlliiertenMuseum, DE
10. Objectives
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To open up new digital cultural content for Europeana
To simplify significantly the process of contributing data to Europeana
To help overcome participation barriers by part-automating the
workflow and creating tools for the management of permissions and
licensing
To ensure that current and future generations of Collections and
Digital Asset Management Software are ‘Europeana-ready’
To support metadata enrichment in Data Provider systems
11. Europeana Connection Kit (ECK)
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A set of open-source software tools
Connects CMS to an aggregator
Simple and easy to use
Lowers participation barriers
Supports metadata enrichment
12. ECK is ....
Tool Box containing:
• Open Source Software
• User Manual
• Documentation
• Training
15. ECK – Aggregation model
• LIDO export for museum partners
• MARC export for library partner
• Standard LIDO to EDM and MARC to EDM
mapping
• Use of aggregators: national, regional, dark
aggregator
17. ECK - Iterative development i1
Iteration 1: Manage and select .....
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April 2013, testing - June 2013
Test procedure, communication plan Testing groups
Barriers
Results Users' expectations
Actions
Iteration 1
Iteration 1
18. Europeana Inside – Testing groups
Testing Group 1
Testing Group 1
Knowledge
Knowledge
Integration
Integration
Collections Trust
Collections Trust
KE software
KE software
Xantys Limited
Xantys Limited
System Sim.
System Sim.
Testing Group 2
Testing Group 2
Zetcom
Zetcom
PostScriptum
PostScriptum
Benaki
Benaki
National Gallery
National Gallery
KMKG
KMKG
St. Pr.
St. Pr.
Kulturbesitz
Kulturbesitz
Testing Group 4
Testing Group 4
Testing Group 3/5
Testing Group 3/5
Monguz
Monguz
Semantika
Semantika
Petöfi
Petöfi
Szepmuveszeti
Szepmuveszeti
Magyar Nemzeti
Magyar Nemzeti
Adlib
Adlib
LIBIS
LIBIS
iMinds
iMinds
S.L. Västernorrland
S.L. Västernorrland
Mobydoc
Mobydoc
SKINsoft
SKINsoft
Município do Seixal
Município do Seixal
KADOC
KADOC
RBINS
RBINS
DEN
DEN
19. ECK - Iterative development i2
Iteration 2: Enhanced management, status and data publication …
September 2013, testing – October 2013
• Test group meetings
• Results …
• Marks the start of data aggregation and delivery to Europeana…
Technical Integration Report (October 2013)
• All partners report progress on integrating ECK functionality
• All CMS-side functions ‘complete’ or ‘under development’
• Good progress on integrating validation and transformation features
• Most ECK functions to be available to customers before end of project
• MARC export for library partner
• Standard LIDO to EDM and MARC to EDM mapping
• Use of aggregators: national, regional, dark aggregator
Iteration 1
Iteration 1
Iteration 2
Iteration 2
20. ECK - Iterative development i3 & i4
Iteration 3: Data re-ingestion and data push
• March 2014, testing - May 2014
Iteration 4: Production version!
• July 2014, final testing and bug fixing - August 2014
Iteration 1
Iteration 1
Iteration 2
Iteration 2
Iteration 3
Iteration 3
Iteration 4
Iteration 4
21. Impact – Creating the missing link
• Far-reaching and transformative
• Start of a partnership between CMS vendors
and cultural institutes
• Open up potential for more than 7000 other
cultural institutions to deliver data to Europeana
and other targets
• Open up this data to the outside world for
creative reuse
22. Vision of the future
The Europeana Inside outputs, and
particularly the Europeana Connection Kit,
will be adopted by every Collections
Management software supplier and their
museum, library and archive clients
throughout Europe to transform the
quantity, scope and accessibility of digital
cultural heritage for the public.
23. Forward plan – viability and sustainability
What will happen after the project…
The forward plan will focus on
•The future development potential of the ECK
•The maintenance of the Best Practice Network
•The promotion and advocacy of the Europeana
Inside outputs to new partners
Month 19 of the project, another 10 months to go…
WP1 dissemination, WP2 specification, WP3 development, WP4 content, WP5 production, WP6 project management
Manage: export management (when exported), revison history (altered records), notification of changes to ECK, PID management
Select: Selecting single and multiple records, selecting records based on values, Boolean operators, indication of selected fields, reuse of saved queries
Prepare: Automatic EDM mapping, Preview mapping, Editable mapping, Saving Mapping, Field explenation, Automatic value insertion (batch), Check digital asset availability, Thubnail selection, Multiple assets, Defining mediatypes, Metadata on IPR, Mark mandatory fields, Choosing a default mapping, Automatic data suggestion, Mapping and transformation, …
Validate: Validation, feedback on validation, edit invalid fields, automatic licence validation, test ingestion, align validation
Supply: Automatic supply, re-supply of failed records, Schedule data supply
Data acceptance: withdraw records, update published records, publication indication, automatic publication alert