Natural History Meets Culture

Koller Wolfgang, Rainer Heimo

NHM Wien

open-up.euopen-up.eu

GBIF Harvesting and Indexing Toolkit• local BioCase provider software (BPS)• 20 individual providers• 1.038.806 objects availabel on Europeana• ~1.500.000 objects for current harvest• Mapping for ABCD and ABCD/EFG

Restricted/Unrestricted• complete mapping for data• switch on provider level • 10 elements / 25 elements

Enrichment Layer• currently only common names• SKOS format for EDM• integration via Pentaho Kettle

Provider Data

Metadata Enrichment Service

Common Names Webservice

Enrichment Layer – How does it work?• OpenRefine Reconciliation Service API• send scientific name to common names

service• receive response in EDM compatible SKOS• integrate response into metadata• provide everything to Europeana

Enrichment Layer – How does it look like?• Don‘t know yet!

OAI-PMH• Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for

Metadata Harvesting• used by Europeana to harvest data• REST based protocol• envelope for actual data• data can be in arbitrary format

In practice?

Questions?

References• http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?rows=24&qf=PROVIDER:OpenUp!• http://open-up.cybertaxonomy.africamuseum.be/• http://www.biocase.org/• http://openup.nhm-wien.ac.at/commonNames/• http://kettle.pentaho.com/• http://code.google.com/p/gbif-indexingtoolkit/• http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/