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Collections Trust and EC-funded Projects
EUROPEANA INSIDE
Creating the missing link
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.
Network of Projects
Basics
• 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
Countries
• United Kingdom• The Netherlands• Belgium• Greece• Germany
• Slovenia• Hungary• France• Sweden• Portugal
Partners
• 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
• 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
Associate Partners
• 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
Objectives
• 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
Europeana Connection Kit (ECK)
• A set of open-source software tools• Connects CMS to an aggregator• Simple and easy to use• Lowers participation barriers• Supports metadata enrichment
Tool Box containing:
• Open Source Software
• User Manual
• Documentation
• Training
ECK is ....
ECK – Overview
ECK – Requirements Analysis
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
ECK – Development: April 2012 – September 2014
Iteration 2Iteration 2Iteration 1Iteration 1 Iteration 4Iteration 4Iteration 3Iteration 3
1. Manage
2. Select
3. Prepare
4.Validate
5.Supply
6.Data Acceptance
ECK - Iterative development i1
Iteration 1Iteration 1
Iteration 1: Manage and select .....
• April 2013, testing - June 2013• Test procedure, communication plan Testing groups• Barriers• Results Users' expectations• Actions
Europeana Inside – Testing groups
Testing Group 1Testing Group 1 Testing Group 2Testing Group 2 Testing Group 4Testing Group 4 Testing Group 3/5Testing Group 3/5
Knowledge Integration
Collections Trust KE software
Xantys Limited System Sim.
Knowledge Integration
Collections Trust KE software
Xantys Limited System Sim.
ZetcomPostScriptum
BenakiNational Gallery
KMKGSt. Pr.
Kulturbesitz
ZetcomPostScriptum
BenakiNational Gallery
KMKGSt. Pr.
Kulturbesitz
MonguzSemantika
Petöfi Szepmuveszeti
Magyar Nemzeti
MonguzSemantika
Petöfi Szepmuveszeti
Magyar Nemzeti
AdlibLIBIS
iMindsS.L. Västernorrland
Mobydoc SKINsoft
Município do SeixalKADOCRBINS
DEN
AdlibLIBIS
iMindsS.L. Västernorrland
Mobydoc SKINsoft
Município do SeixalKADOCRBINS
DEN
Iteration 2Iteration 2Iteration 1Iteration 1
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 2Iteration 2Iteration 1Iteration 1 Iteration 4Iteration 4Iteration 3Iteration 3
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
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
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.
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
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www.europeana-inside.eu/partners/