Technical architecture: Metadata

Provision and Integration

Stefanie Gehrke

Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenb ttelü

Source format Europeana Regia - Metadata:

MAB, EAD, TEI, Marc21 and MXML (Manuscripta Mediaevalia)

Output format Europeana Regia - Metadata: ESE and EDM

ESE: Europeana Semantic Elements

EDM: Europeana Data Model

Quality management tool: Reference - Transformation

Source formats

TEI

MAB

MXML EAD MARC21METS/ MODS?

Modular frontend

Coherent single backend

Reference-Transformation

XSLT XSLT XSLT XSLTXSLT

MARCTools

Europeana Regia Modul

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Europeana‘s vision:

„A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search Europe‘s distributed – that is to

say, held in different places by different organisations –digital cultural heritage online. “

Europeana Regia:

multilingual descriptions (german, english, french, spanish, dutch, catalan)

Collaborative collection and integration of VIAF - identifiers (partial plus GND - identifier) and TGN -

numbers

Controlled vocabulary

The European Library – Aggregator for Europeana Regia

… integrates for Europeana Regia all metadata in Europeana

… realises and assures the transformation process

… adds further aspects of quality assurance

… hosts the TEL-portal