Antoine Isaac: Europeana – exploring 57,624,717 artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives

Abstract

Europeana builds a platform for accessing a wide variety of digitized heritage across Europe. This presentation will explain some key points on how Europeana works, with a strong focus on (meta)data issues. This session will for example discuss how Europeana and its Network of data partners try to address matters of data quality in a multilingual context, what this requires both from a data engineering perspective and a community one, and how this connect with the FAIR principles. Europeana Research, the initiative to promote the use of digital heritage in academic research, will also be introduced.

Bio

Antoine Isaac (Europeana Foundation) works as R&D Manager for Europeana. He has been researching and promoting the use of Semantic Web and Linked Data technology in culture since his PhD studies at Paris-Sorbonne and the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel. He has especially worked on the representation and interoperability of collections and their vocabularies. He has served in other related W3C efforts, for example on SKOS, Library Linked Data, Data on the Web Best Practices, Data Exchange. He co-chairs the Technical Working Group of the RightsStatements.org initiative and the Discovery Technical Specification Group at the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

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