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Workshop on Harvesting Metadata: Practices and Challenges

The workshop focused on the experiences of the EuropeanaLocal project partners in collecting metadata from small and unfederated cultural heritage repositories in 27 countries across Europe.

 

Thursday, October 1st
14:30-16:00 Session 1
Chair: Mary Rowlatt, MDR Partners, UK

Introduction and background to Europeana and EuropeanaLocal
Mary Rowlatt, MDR Partners, UK

 

Europeana – an Update on Metadata Mapping and Normalisation, Content Ingestion and Aggregation Activities
Robina Clayphan, European Digital Libraries Federation

 

Results and Implications of Metadata/Content Survey
Gordon McKenna, Collections Trust, UK

 

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

 

16:30-18:00 Session 1 (continues)

Results & Implications of the Skills/Technology Survey and Impact on Training/Support Arrangements Required
(Stein) Runar Bergheim, Asplan Viak, Norway

 

Harvesting Metadata of Greek Institutional Repositories in the Context of EuropeanaLocal
Ioannis Trohopoulos, Alexandros Koulouris, Emmanouel Garoufallou and Rania Siatri, Veria Central Public Library, Greece

 

PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation - Experiences of a Large Scale Metadata Aggregator
Cezary Mazurek and Marcin Werla, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

 

Kypriana: Organising the metadata harvesting of Cyprus digital libraries and collections in the frame of EDLocal
Filippos Tsimpoglou, Vasiliki Koukonidou, Evelthon Prodromou, University of Cyprus Library, Cyprus

 

Closing discussion and summing up
Mary Rowlatt, MDR Partners, UK