Following the Frankfurt event this autumn, another meeting is organised by Europeana Foundation to work on the future aggregation landscape, to work on why and how we are distributing digital content to audiences and to work on planning data quality improvements. The meeting will take place at several locations in the KB, National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, Netherlands.
The Aggregator Forum gathers representatives of national and thematic aggregators and data providers, who work with and manage digital data of cultural heritage collections, aiming for a modern approach to access, visibility and user interaction with these resources. PHOTOCONSORTIUM will join the forum as photography domain aggregator; participating in the various discussions on metadata quality, aggregation process, visualization, audience engagement and IPR, and providing the point of view of the photographic archives.
PRELIMINARY AGENDA
18 April – afternoon
Future access to digital cultural heritage: the next aggregation landscape
The future aggregation landscape still needs work to make roles and responsibilities for cultural heritage institutions, aggregators and Europeana as clear as possible. Today we will work on scenarios on how the aggregation landscape should look like to ensure future access to digital cultural heritage.
13:15 – 13:30 Introduction – setting the scene
13:30 – 14:00 Scenario recommendations
14:00 – 15:00 1st round of role-play against scenarios
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 2nd round of role-play against scenarios
16:30 – 17:00 Reporting back
19 April – morning
Convincing institutions to publish
We often get questions on how to convince institutions to publish, e.g. in Europeana Collections. Today we will work on tools to help aggregators to convince institutions but also on opportunities and processes to reach new audiences.
09:30 – 10:15 Why: Thematic Collections: Europeana Fashion/Art/Music /Photography, Europeana Research, Europeana for Education and Re-use
10:15 – 10:45 How: Content Strategy and EPF Q & A session
10:45 – 11:15 Who: some aggregators to report back their experience with institutions, what works, what does not work
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45 Breakout sessions: 1. Curating a thematic collection 2. Tools for Persuasion 3. Questions on rights statements
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch
19 April – afternoon
Metis demo, Data quality plan, Ingest clinic
After the positive feedback we received in Frankfurt we run another ingest clinic. We start with introducing how we would like to work with you to plan data quality improvements and then discuss in groups specific data quality problems. We will also offer a demo and progress update of Metis.
13:30 – 14:00 Metis demo and progress update
14:00 – 14:30 Introduction of data quality plan
14:30 – 16:30 Ingest clinic focussed on problem pattern identified by Data Quality Committee
