Modeling Cultural Collections for Digital Aggregation and Exchange Environments

Wickett, Karen M.; Isaac, Antoine; Fenlon, Katrina S.; Doerr, Martin; Meghini, Carlo; Palmer, Carole L.; Jett, Jacob

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Description

Title

Modeling Cultural Collections for Digital Aggregation and Exchange Environments

Author(s)

• Wickett, Karen M.
• Isaac, Antoine
• Fenlon, Katrina S.
• Doerr, Martin
• Meghini, Carlo
• Palmer, Carole L.
• Jett, Jacob

Issue Date

2013-10

Keyword(s)

• Digital Collections
• Metadata
• Cultural Heritage
• Digital Aggregations

Abstract

This report presents the results of a collaboration between members of the IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) project and developers of the Europeana Data Model (EDM) to construct a formal extension of EDM that explicitly accommodates representation of collections and collection/item relationships. The goal is to enhance the representation facilities of EDM, and to make EDM conducive to representing collection-level data from DCC and other digital content providers. We report on the outcomes of the collaboration – use cases, requirements, and recommendations for modeling collections in exchange and aggregation environments – prefaced by a short section covering background on the foundational DCC and Europeana initiatives and an overview of related work in the field.

Publisher

Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship

Series/Report Name or Number

CIRSS Technical Report 201310-1

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Partially funded by IMLS National Leadership Grant LG-06-07-0020

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