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The Future of Open Cultural Heritage? LIS 670 Cultural Heritage Description and Access
Dr. Cristina PattuelliSpring 2014
Laura Brown, Ellie Horowitz, Emory Johnson, Meredith Powers, Sarah Quick
agenda➔ Introduction
Mission and scope of Europeana, DPLA, and Bibframe
➔ Knowledge Structure + Organization➔ Intended User Communities + Outreach
Who is served by these initiatives? How?
➔ Challenges➔ Looking Ahead
Mission: DPLA & Europeana
Launched in 2008, Europeana aims to “create new ways for people to engage with
their cultural history, whether it's for work, learning or pleasure.”
European Commission
Officially established in 2013, the Digital Public Library of
America “...strives to contain the full breadth of human
expression, from the written word, to works of art and
culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the
efforts and data of science…”
dp.la
Bibframe Objectives
➔ Differentiate between conceptual concepts
and physical manifestations➔ Unambiguously identify information entities
(authorities)➔ Leverage and expose relations between
entities
European Data Model (EDM)
A few requirements:
➔ Distinguish “provided objects” (painting, book, movie, etc.) from their
digital representations
➔ Distinguish object from its metadata record
➔ Support for contextual resources, including concepts from controlled
vocabularies
Core Classes
EDM has three core classes that represent the data:
➔ edm:ProvidedCHO - The provided cultural heritage object, such as a painting or sculpture
➔ edm:WebResource - Digital representation of the object➔ ore:Aggregation - Demonstrates that the CHO and web resource can be represented as a whole
source: http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/900548/
770bdb58-c60e-4beb-a687-874639312ba5
Europeana Contextual Classes
➔ edm:Agent
➔ edm:Event
➔ edm:Place
➔ edm:TimeSpan
➔ skos:Concept
source: http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/900548/770bdb58-c60e-4beb-a687-874639312ba5
Source: http://dp.la/about/map
Metadata Models: DPLA Domain Model v.3
How is Europeana Using Linked Open Data?
September 2012:
Europeana opened up a dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use under a Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication
Goals:
➔ Economic: to provide “a new boost to the digital economy”
➔ Cultural: demonstrating a “move away from the world of closed and controlled data”
source:http://vimeo.com/36752317
How is DPLA Using Linked Open Data?
January 2013:
DPLA decides to apply the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain policy
Goals:
➔ Interoperability
➔ Collaboration: creating a linked web of cultural heritage, not data silos
Source: http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/europe-america-en
BIBFRAME LOD Models
Source: http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/pdf/marcld-report-11-21-2012.pdf
BIFRAME: Authority XMLID: http://example.org/b208aa59-e767-b54d-e0d2-c40b024d1dcb
Type(s)http://bibframe.org/vocab/Person
bf:hasAuthorityhttp://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n79034525bf:authorizedAccessPoint
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519bf:authoritySource
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
Outreach: Europeana
Goals of Europeana Awareness:
➔ Increase publicity (to users, policy makers, politicians and cultural heritage institutions)
➔ Encourage use for hobbies, research, learning, genealogy and tourism.
➔ Encourage cultural institutions to provide content
Project Examples ➔ Denmark - Europeana awareness
in the secondary education system
➔ United Kingdom - Family history roadshow working with schools
➔ Poland - Collection days to generate new content and digitize private archives relating to the regime change in 1989
Outreach: DPLA
➔ DPLA Fest:
- annual event open to the public
➔ Community Reps Program:
- enlists enthusiastic volunteers nationwide to disseminate information about DPLA in various cultural heritage and LIS environments
➔ Event-based outreach:
- wikipedia edit-a-thons using DPLA as a source
- classroom activities with students and teachers using DPLA materials
- workshops integrating DPLA into existing school projects
- hackathons
➔ Open API
➔ Appfests and hackathons
Created for DPLA Appfest 2012, DPLAMap displays DPLA content related to user location. (http://inkdroid.org/dpla-map/)
Openness: DPLA
http://dp.la/appsExamples of DPLA Apps
Openness: Europeana
How is Europeana’s open API being used?
➔ Hispana➔ Polish Digital Library Federation➔ Casual Curator app ➔ ATHENA➔ Digital Humanities Observatory
Source: http://labs.europeana.eu/
Example
source: http://labs.europeana.eu/apps/hispana/
Challenges
BIBFRAME➔ Expensive to implement/use➔ Software companies have no incentive to create
specialized software➔ Small libraries with smaller budgets often cannot use
DPLA & Europeana➔ Balancing access and copyright➔ Reaching intended user community
The Future of Open Cultural Heritage?
The utility of DPLA and Europeana will only
increase as more people use and engage with its
materials.
BIBFRAME provides a new, rich vocabulary for
LOD resource description — its data has the
capacity to link to other vocabularies, building new relationships and
new knowledge.
References
Abbott, F. (2014, April 28). Community reps: A handy guide to who they are and what they are doing. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/I5zoRj
Action Group (n.d.) Action promotes campaigns across Europe to digitise historic memorabilia for future generations. Retrieved May 13, 2014 from http://www.actionprgroup.com/1268.html
DPLA. (2013 February 8). Metadata application profile, version 3. Retrieved from http://dp.la/about/map
DPLA. (n.d.). About. Retrieved April 9, 2014 from http://dp.la/info/
DPLA. (n.d.). API codex: philosophy. Retrieved April 9, 2014 from DPLA Policies: http://dp.la/info/developers/codex/policies/philosophy/
DPLA. (n.d.) Apps. Retrieved April 18, 2014 from http://dp.la/apps
Europeana. (n.d.) EDM. Retrieved April 25, 2014 from http://goo.gl/wZvqQQ
Europeana. (n.d.) EDM. Retrieved April 25, 2014 from http://goo.gl/M3827E
Europeana. (n.d.) Labs. Retrieved May 13, 2014 from http://labs.europeana.eu/apps/hispana/
Library of Congress. (2012). Bibliographic framework as a web of data: linked data model and supporting services. Library of Congress. 1-41. http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/pdf/marcld-report-11-21-2012.pdf.