1. “Our communities, with a view towards e-Learning”
COST A32 Workshop in Bergen, May 28-30, 2010
Europeana for Scholarship
research and eLearning
Dov Winer
MAKASH Advancing CMC in Education, Culture
and Science (IL)
Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana (EAJC, UK)

3. From Gradmann (2008)
http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

4. From Gradmann (2008)
From Gradmann (2008)
http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica
http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

5. From Gradmann (2008)
http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

6. N
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10. • Europeana
• Linked Open Data
• Scholarly and eLearning applications

11. Europeana ― the vision
“A digital library that is a single,
Europe’s digital libraries,
direct and multilingual access point
archives and museums to the European cultural heritage.”
online European Parliament, 27 September 2007
• A showcase for Europe’s “A unique resource for Europe's
cultural and scientific distributed cultural heritage …
heritage ensuring a common access to
Europe's libraries, archives and
• A flagship project of the museums.”
European Commission and Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content &
the European Parliament. Cognitive Systems Information Society
Directorate, European Commission

12. Jill Cousins, Europeana Foundation, May 2010, Berlin

13. Jill Cousins, Europeana Foundation, May 2010, Berlin

21. From Jill Cousins (2010)

23. From Jill Cousins (2010)

24. From Jill Cousins (2010) From Repository to WunderKamer: user
participation in Europeana. DISH 2009 Rotterdam

26. eBooks on Demand
From Silvia Gstrein, eBooks on Demand, Europeana Connect meeing
Berlin April 2010

29. F
Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare
Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop

30. C. Concordia et al. (2009). Not (just) a Repository, not (just) a Digital
Library, nor (just) a Portal: A Portrait of Europeana as an API.
IFLA, Milan.

31. C. Concordia et al. (2009). Not (just) a Repository, not (just) a Digital
Library, nor (just) a Portal: A Portrait of Europeana as an API.
IFLA, Milan.

32. Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare
Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop

34. From Gradmann (2008)
http://www.slideshare.net/gradmans/europeana-semantica

37. Slide taken from the presentation by Cesare
Concordia, ISTI/CNR at the LIDA 2009 Workshop

44. • Europeana
• Linked Open Data
• Scholarly and eLearning applications

45. http://linkeddata.org/
http://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDump
http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics (~13 Billion triplets March 9, 2010)

46. http://esw.w3.org/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData

48. SKOS Simple Knowledge ORGANIZATION SYSTEM
thesauri, classifications, subjects, taxonomies, folksonomies,…
controlled vocabulary
concepts are documented, linked, merged with other data, composed, integrated
and published on the Web
CONCEPTS identified by URIs using RDF triples
:natural language expressions to refer to
concepts
skos: prefLabel [descriptor]
skos: altLabel [synonims, acronyms, abbreviations]
SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
…broader and narrower concepts
broader/narrower relationships assert that a concept
is broader/narrower in meaning
related…concepts somehow related
SCHEMES compiled sets of concepts: ConceptScheme class and inScheme
relationship to link a concept to a scheme
hasTopConcept relationship for the entry points of narrower/broader hierarchy
LINK schemes map concepts from different schemes using the properties
exactMatch, broadMatch, narrowMatch and relatedMatch
May 10
dov.winer@gmail.com

50. SKOS APPLICATIONS
I want to send my thesaurus/subject heading/taxonomy from one
database/application to another
I want to publish my thesaurus/taxonomy… in an “electronic” form, so
that it can become part of a distributed information
network/environment
The Web values quality and openness (e.g. Wikipedia)
KOS are high quality resources [both the concepts and the links]
KOS are natural hubs…attractors…high gravity…attract links
act as firm foundation for a Web of data…
Links are paths to discovery (of documents, data,…); they can be
exploited in useful and surprising ways (serendipity); well
established KOS e.g. LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings, AAT (Art and Architecture
Thesaurus) can be hubs in the Web of linked data May 10
dov.winer@gmail.com

51. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/search/

52. • Europeana
• Linked Open Data
• Scholarly and eLearning applications

53. C. Concordia et al. (2009). Not (just) a Repository, not (just) a Digital
Library, nor (just) a Portal: A Portrait of Europeana as an API.
IFLA, Milan.

57. http://relfinder.dbpedia.org/relfinder.html

58. http://relfinder.dbpedia.org/relfinder.html

59. Shai Ophir (2010). A New Type of Historical Knowledge. Information
Society,, 26: 144-150, 2010,

60. Shai Ophir (2010). A New Type of Historical Knowledge. Information
Society,, 26: 144-150, 2010,

61. Thank you for your attention!
Contact:
Dov Winer
dov.winer@gmail.com