Europeana Professional - JCDL2013-Tutorial - Europeana Tech

Use the link to access more information about the upcoming event.  "MONDAY JULY 22 MORNING (9:00 - 12:00) in White River Ballroom A at JW Marriott Hotel ...Audience level: Introductory/intermediate ...  Number of participants: up to 25 participants ...  [1] Target Audience: Digital library practitioners interested in the technical aspects of large scale aggregations. [2] Practitioners working with collections of cultural heritage or scholarly research materials (documents or datasets). [3] Researchers interested in fundamental approaches to data modeling and metadata development ... Presenters: Karen M. Wickett & Katrina Fenlon, GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...  Valentine Charles, Europeana Foundation ...  Recent developments in digital library aggregations can support the representation and description of collections from a variety of sources and domains, and can even allow users to curate and manage new collections. Collection descriptions allow users to find collections and determine whether a given collection contains resources relevant to their purpose while providing an important kind of context that can be used interpret the significance of individual items. The Europeana Data Model (EDM) was developed to support Europeana, the largest aggregation of cultural heritage resources in Europe. The EDM addresses issues related to domain-specific metadata standards, participation in a Linked Open Data environment, and adding value to digital cultural heritage objects through data enrichment. Research conducted for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content(DCC) project through the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship indicates that extending the EDM to include collection records and maintain relationships between items and collections in the context of an aggregation would advance the goal of addressing the challenges of meaningful organization and access. Together, researchers from Europeana and DCC have produced a white paper that provides recommendations for modeling collections in digital library aggregation and exchange environments like Europeana and The European Library.  This tutorial provides a technical introduction to the EDM and explores the role that collections play in adding value to digital libraries by 1) supporting the information seeking activities of system users, 2) allowing users to build and curate their own collections of resources, and 3) supporting administrative management of resources and metadata. Participants will gain a better understanding of conceptual data modeling, structured collection description, and collection metadata. The tutorial will conclude with a discussion of practitioners’ experience with items and collections in a digital library context and next steps for collection modeling research."