<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>Gaudinat, Arnaud</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Raemy, Julien Antoine</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2020</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">Europeana, a non-profit foundation launched in 2008, aims to improve access to  Europe’s digital cultural heritage through itsopen data platform that aggregates  metadata and links to digital surrogates held by over 3700 providers. The data comes  bothdirectlyfrom cultural heritage institutions (libraries, archives, museums) as well as  through intermediary aggregators. Europeana’s current operating model leverages the  Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and the  Europeana Data Model (EDM) for data import through Metis, Europeana's ingestion  and aggregation service.However, OAI-PMH is an outdated technology,andis not web-  centric, which presents high maintenance implications, in particular for smaller  institutions. Consequently, Europeana seeks to find alternative aggregation  mechanisms that couldcomplement or supersede it over the long-term, and which  could also bring further potential benefits.In scope,this master’s thesisseeksto  extendthe researchon earlier aggregation experiments that Europeana successfully  carried out with various technologies, such as aggregation based on Linked Open  Data (LOD) datasets or through the International Image Interoperability Framework  (IIIF) APIs.The literature review first focuses on metadata standards and the  aggregation landscape in the cultural heritage domain, and then provides an  extensive overview of Web-based technologies with respect to two essential  componentsthat enableaggregation: data transfer and synchronisationas well as data  modelling and representation.Three key resultswere obtained. First, the participation  in the Europeana Common Culture project resulted in the documentation revision of  the LOD-aggregator, a generictoolset for harvesting and transforming LOD. Second,  52 respondents completed an online survey to gauge the awareness, interest, and  use of technologies other than OAI-PMH for (meta)data aggregation. Third, an  assessment of potential aggregation pilots was carried outconsideringthe23  organisations who expressedinterest infollow-up experimentson the basis ofthe  available data and existing implementations. In the allotted time, one pilot was  attempted using Sitemaps and Schema.org.In order to encourage the adoption of new  aggregation mechanisms, a list of proposed suggestions was then established. All of  these recommendations were aligned with the Europeana Strategy 2020-2025 and  directed towards one or several of the key roles of the aggregation workflow (data  provider, aggregator, Europeana).Even if a shift in Europena’s operating model would  require extensive human and technical resources, such an effort is clearly worthwhile  as solutions presented in this dissertation are well-suited for data enrichment and for  allowing datato be easily updated. The transition from OAI-PMH will also be facilitated  by the integration of such mechanisms within the Metis Sandbox, Europeana's new  ad-hoc system where contributors will be able to test their data sources before  ingestion into Metis. Ultimately, this shift is also expected to lead to a better  discoverability of digital cultural heritage objects.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/global/documents/315109</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/documents/315109/files/Raemy-M_moire-Vdef.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">API</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">cultural  heritage</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">data  aggregation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">digital  transformation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">discovery</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Europeana common culture</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">EDM, IIIF</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns8="xml" ns8:lang="en">LOD</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns9="xml" ns9:lang="en">OAI-PMH</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns10="xml" ns10:lang="en">RDF</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns11="xml" ns11:lang="en">ResourceSync</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns12="xml" ns12:lang="en">schema.org</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns13="xml" ns13:lang="en">SEO</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns14="xml" ns14:lang="en">sitemaps</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns15="xml" ns15:lang="en">social web protocols</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/02</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns16="xml" ns16:lang="en">Enabling better aggregation and discovery of cultural heritage content for Europeana and its partner institutions</dc:title>
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