Metadata aggregation via linked data: results of the Europeana Common Culture project
- 1. INESC-ID
- 2. Dutch Digital Heritage Network
- 3. HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Haute école de gestion de Genève; University of Zurich
- 4. Europeana Foundation; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Description
Digital cultural heritage resources are widely available on the web through the digital libraries of heritage institutions. To address the difficulties of discoverability in cultural heritage, the common practice is metadata aggregation, where centralized efforts like Europeana facilitate discoverability by collecting the resources’ metadata. We present the results of the linked data aggregation task conducted within the Europeana Common Culture project, which attempted an innovative approach to aggregation based on linked data made available by cultural heritage institutions. This task ran for one year with participation of eleven organizations, involving the three member roles of the Europeana network: data providers, intermediary aggregators, and the central aggregation hub, Europeana. We report on the challenges that were faced by data providers, the standards and specifications applied, and the resulting aggregated metadata.
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