GLAM-WIKI 2015 - 11 April - GLAM-WIKI strategy 1 - Europeana and Wikidata
Channel: Wikimedia Nederland
Date: 2015-06-19

Panel during the conference GLAM-WIKI 2015 - http://www.glamwiki.nl

Presentation: Wikidata, a target for Europeana’s semantic strategy?

By Valentine Charles, Hugo Manguinhas, Vladimir Alexiev, Maarten Dammers

For Europeana, the platform for Europe’s digital cultural heritage from libraries, museums and archives, getting richer (semantic and multilingual) metadata is a priority. It improves access to the 40 million cultural heritage objects, notably enabling the multilingual retrieval of documents and creates relations between objects. To enhance data and enable retrieval across languages, Europeana performs automatic enrichment by selecting source metadata field(s) in the Europeana data and creating links to a selected target vocabulary or dataset representing contextual resources such as places, concepts, agents and time periods. Wikidata is since a while on Europeana’s radar as a potential new target for enrichment but how can it be integrated with cultural heritage data?

https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/Programme/Discussions/Strategy#Presentation:_Wikidata.2C_a_target_for_Europeana.E2.80.99s_semantic_strategy.3F