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Metadata & Europeana
Marie-Claire Dangerfield
Jr. Operations officer
26/09/2013, Den Haag
Metadata and End User
What are they looking for?
How do they look for it?
What can they do with this?
Quality over Quantity
End Users and Metadata
Going back to basics with Metadata
What are end users looking for?
• Title
• Picture
• Description
• Digital Object
• Source
• Attribution
• Correct Rights Label
• Institution attribution
• Format (dependent on object type)
• Consistency (persistent identifiers)
Importance of Titles
Importance of Titles
Meaningful titles but thumbnails provide
little context
Importance of Titles
Meaningful titles!
Importance of Titles
• Allows end user to easily search results in
the portal
• Provided by using dc:title or dc:terms
alternative or taken from the dc:description
• Needs to be meaningful
• No title, less click through
Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!
Or
On the importance of pictures…
Importance of Pictures
No images but with meaningful titles
Importance of Pictures
Discrepancies with images
Importance of Pictures
Effect of small images in record
Importance of Pictures
IsShownBy: creates light box
Importance of Pictures
• Allows end user to easily identify objects
• Creates a connection with the object
• Supplied by europeana:object (thumbnail),
europeana:isShownBy (lightbox/or thumbnail when
explicitly stated)
• EDM allows for multiple web-resources and images
(supplied with rdf:about in the contextual class)
• Increases click through rate and re-use of digital
object
Descriptions!
Importance of Description
Description where title is poor
Importance of Description
No description but a meaningful title
Importance of Description
Description does not need to be long!
Importance of Description
• Allows end user to identify importance of the
object
• Ideally meaningful short title plus good
description
• Supplied by dc:description (mandatory if dc:title
is not supplied or meaningful)
• Description compliments any other metadata
supplied
Digital object and Source
Digital Object and Source
isShownAt points to the digital object in context
Digital Object and Source
isShownAt resolves to the digital object
Digital Object and Source
isShownBy resolves to the digital object alone
Digital Object and Source
isShownBy resolves to the digital object alone
Digital Object and Source
• Europeana contains metadata, it is not a content
repository it facilitates access but directs
outwards
• A valid isShownAt or isShownBy is a mandatory
element in submitted metadata
• Allows the end user to get greater information
and/or context on the object
Attribution/Rights Labelling
Attribution and Rights Labeling
12 rights statements relating to the re-use rights of the
digital object
Attribution and Rights Labeling
Showing the EDM:rights under the image and dc:rights in
the record
Thank you
Marie-Claire Dangerfield
