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Linked Heritage

Linked Heritage is an EU co-funded project that aims to extend and enrich the content and metadata holdings of the Europeana digital library. The project – which builds on the earlier Athena project and runs from April 2011 until the end of 2013 – will tackle a number of tasks, including the coordination of terminologies, standards and technologies used, linking of cultural heritage data into the semantic web, training, and the ingestion of assets into the Europeana collection itself.

EDItEUR is leading one of the work packages (WP4) within the project, focusing on engaging the commercial publishing sector with Europeana, and on identification and metadata issues (including mapping between various metadata schemas in use). Participants in WP4 include EDItEUR members mEDRA and MVB, the German National Library of Science and Technology, (University Library Hannover), the Hungarian National Library in Budapest, the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU) in Rome, Promoter in Pisa, Italy and Pintail Ltd in Dublin, Ireland.

Work Package 4 Deliverables

D4.1 Best Practice Report – Public Private Partnership (pdf)
D4.2 Specification of Technologies Chosen
D4.3 Specification of Legal/Licensing Environment

For further information on EDItEUR’s part in the Linked Heritage project, please contact Michael Hopwood.

News

• The first part of EDItEUR's Linked Heritage work – Work Package 4's Best Practice Report describing the major identifier and metadata standards – has now been published, and is available from the Linked Heritage website – Deliverable D4.1.

• Michael Hopwood and Graham Bell took part in the second plenary meeting of the Linked Heritage project at Citilab Barcelona on November 23rd and 24th. This was preceeded by the Europeana, content aggregation and linked data for cultural heritage workshop on November 22nd. EDitEUR presented the draft findings from WP4’s initial survey of metadata best practice across the European commercial book publishing, audio, photographic and film & TV sectors.

• EDItEUR attended the public launch of the Linked Heritage project at the National Széchényi Library in Budapest on June 22nd.

• Michael Hopwood has started work at EDItEUR, concentrating full-time on the Linked Heritage project.

• EDItEUR attended the first plenary meeting of the Linked Heritage project at the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU) in Rome on 29th April, and outlined initial plans for Work Package 4.

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