EuropeanaLocal Knowledge Sharing Workshop

13-14 January 2009

Location: Europeana Headquarters, National Library of The Netherlands

Day 1: Tuesday 13 January 2009

08:45-09:00 Registration & Introduction

Registration to the Workshop - Adeline van den Berg, (Europeana Office)

09:00-9:15 Morning coffee and introduction to EuropeanaLocal and the workshop

- introduction to EuropeanaLocal and its relation with Europeana (10 minutes) - Rob Davies, (MDR Partners)

- scope and goals of workshop, speakers & sessions and list of expected outcomes (5 minutes) - Olaf Janssen, (Europeana Office)

- Role of Athena (5 minutes) - Georgia Angelaki , (Europeana Office)

9:15-9:45 Europeana generic session

From Europeana prototype to EuropeanaV1: Lessons learnt, recent developments and plans - Jill Cousins and Catherine Lupovici, (Europeana Office)

Q&A session & discussion (10-15 min)

9:45-10:15 Current and future data ingestion procedure in Europeana. Europeana test, acceptance and production environment from a sustainable business perspective – suggested roadmap

Bram van der Werf , (Europeana Office)

Q&A session & discussion (10-15 min)

10:15-10:45 The Europeana Object model - Stefan Gradmann, (Humboldt University Berlin)

Q&A session & discussion (10-15 min)

0:45-11:00 Coffee break

EuropeanaLocal specific session 11:00-11:10

Preliminary results of the technical survey and Introduction to the repository implementation workflow, based on “Technical Primer - Overview of Europeana Local Implementation Steps (version 16.12.2008)” - Stein Runar Bergheim, (Avinet).

First results and update on the EuropeanaLocal survey of collections & metadata - Gordon McKenna, Collections Trust. Gordon gave a demonstration of the SurveyMonkey system (http://www.surveymonkey.com) used to carry out the content and terminology survey. The survey was still in progress at the time of the presentation but the results to date were shown.

11:30-12:30 Repository installation

The REPOX system (±25 min) - Nuno Freire, (National Library of Portugal)

The TEL OAI-installer (±15 min) - Sjoerd Siebinga, (TEL & Europeana Offices) (Cancelled)

OAI-PMH Introduction, OAI-PMH Tools, OAI repository installation and OAI-PMH Test Site (±15 min) - Idar Thoresen Kvam & Olav Tuften, (Avinet)

Q&A session & discussion (5-10 min)

12:30-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:15 Metadata Transformation

Metadata extraction from local collection management system to local repositories

Metadata usage and mapping in the Europeana Prototype – The Europeana Semantic Elements (±30 min) - Go Sugimoto, (Europeana Office) and Comments on mapping - Robina Clayphan, (EuropeanaLocal Interoperability Manager)

Challenges related to data extraction from heterogeneous databases (±15 min) - Stein Runar Bergheim, (Avinet)

Q&A session & discussion (±15 min)

14:15-15:00 Metadata normalization

Metadata normalisation for the Europeana Prototype (±20 min) - Julie Verleyen, (TEL & Europeana Offices)

Normalization of metadata (±10 min) -Idar Thoresen Kvam and Olav Tuften, (Avinet)

Q&A session & discussion (±15 min)

15:00-15:15 Coffee break

15:15-16:00 Metadata enrichment

Metadata enrichment in TEL & Europeana: multi-linguality, vocabularies, authorities & SKOS; lessons learnt, best-practices, recommendations, tools, software (±15 min) - Sjoerd Siebinga, (TEL & Europeana Offices) (Cancelled)

Metadata Enrichment (±15 min) - (Stein) Runar Bergheim (Avinet)

Metadata Enrichment (±15 min) - Rastislav Rehak, (EEA)

Q&A session & discussion (±15 min)

16:00-16:15 Repository population - Optional session

No presentations

Optional Q&A session & discussion (±15 min)

16:15–17:00 Metadata harvesting

Metadata harvesting by TEL & Europeana during the last 4 years: best-practices, lessons learned, recommendations, tools, software, wish-lists for improvements etc. (±30 min) - Julie Verleyen, (TEL & Europeana Offices)

Q&A session & discussion (±15 min)

17:00-17:30 Wrap up of Day 1 & overall discussion (20 min)

Introduction & preparation for Day 2 (10 min) - Rob Davies, (MDR Partners) and Olaf Janssen, (Europeana Office)

Day: Wednesday 14 January 2009

9:00-9:15 Morning coffee

EuropeanaLocal specific session – Cont. from Day 1

9:15-10:15 Aggregator Repositories

The DRIVER infrastructure technology and its motivations. (±45 min) - Paolo Manghi, (DRIVER project)

Q&A session & discussion (±15 min)

EuropeanaLocal planning & alignment session

10:15-12:15 Planning and alignment between Europeana and EuropeanaLocal: internal discussion

(Mindmap prints to A3 size)

10:15-12:15 Parallel session: Athena WP leaders : internal discussion & planning

12:15-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Continued from morning session

Planning & alignment between Europeana & EuropeanaLocal

13:00-14:30 Continued from morning session

Parallel session: Athena WP leaders : internal discussion & planning

14:30-15:00 Joint session between EuropeanaLocal & Athena

Synergies, common issues etc.

Wrap up & End