EuropeanaConnect – Neue Technologien für Europeana

Prändl-Zika, Veronika . EuropeanaConnect – Neue Technologien für Europeana., 2012 In: Die neue Bibliothek. Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. 31. Österreichischer Bibliothekartag, Innsbruck 2011. Neugebauer, pp. 393-403. [Book chapter]

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English abstract

EuropeanaConnect – New Technologies for Europeana (translation of the title). The EU project EuropeanaConnect (May 2009 – October 2011), a Best Practice Network co-funded by the European Commission as part of the eContentplus programme, unified 30 institutions from 14 Europeana countries and delivered technical key components for an improved and user-friendly Europeana. Europeana is the innovative internet gateway offering access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage represented by millions of digitised books, writings, maps, videos, images and audio files. By 2011, 21 million digital objects from numerous national, local and thematic cultural institutions have been made accessible through this portal. EuropeanaConnect together with its sister project Europeana v1.0 (both ended in 2011) has been working on a series of back-end solutions for Europeana. These include the implementation of a multilingual search, the development of user-friendly interfaces and the implementation of innovative services such as access from mobile devices. A multimedia annotation service is available as prototype in the "ThoughtLab" of Europeana. In addition, EuropeanaConnect worked on the integration of semantic search options. The project held a leading role in the development of a new metadata schema called Europeana Data Model (EDM). This new schema facilitates semantic search in Europeana. EuropeanaConnect also contributed largely to the Europeana Licensing Framework, which represents a milestone for the cooperation with content providers as it regulates main issues in terms of metadata provision, use and licensing. Moreover EuropeanaConnect was the largest audio aggregator for Europeana. By the end of the project 300,000 music files from more than 500 European audio archives were aggregated. The article presents main achievements of the EuropeanaConnect project.

German abstract

Europeana ist ein innovatives Internet-Portal, das erstmals das digitale kulturelle Erbe Europas über einen gemeinsamen Zugang vereinigt und damit nie dagewesene Verbindungen zwischen Werken und Sammlungen verschiedener Institutionen durch wenige Klicks ermöglicht. Ende 2011 waren 21 Millionen digitale Objekte (Musikfiles, Bilder, Landkarten, Partituren, Videos, Dokumente, Bücher) von Kulturinstitutionen in ganz Europa über Europeana abrufbar. Das von der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek koordinierte EU-Projekt EuropeanaConnect (Mai 2009 – Oktober 2011) vereinigte 30 Projektpartner aus 14 europäischen Ländern und war in den Anfängen der Europeana gemeinsam mit dem Projekt Europeana v1.0 eines der wichtigsten technologischen Kernprojekte, das zentrale Komponenten für die Europeana entwickelte. EuropeanaConnect erarbeitete gemeinsam mit Europeana v1.0 das Europeana Data Model (EDM), entwickelte mehrsprachige Suchoptionen in 10 europäischen Sprachen, trug wesentlich zur Konzeption des Europeana Lizenz-Frameworks bei, arbeitete an benutzerfreundlichen Services und an einer Reihe von Backend Lösungen, die den operativen Betrieb der Europeana optimieren. Außerdem war EuropeanaConnect der wichtigste Musik-Aggregator für Europeana. Der Artikel wird auf die angeführten Aspekte detaillierter eingehen.

Item type:	Book chapter
Keywords:	Europe, cultural heritage, digitization, Europeana, Europa, kulturelles Erbe, Digitalisierung
Subjects:	H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HR. Portals. J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JH. Digital preservation.
Depositing user:	Austrian E-LIS editors
Date deposited:	21 Jun 2014 13:19
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:31
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/23054

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