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Valentine Charles

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arXiv2022

Recommendations for the Technical Infrastructure for Standardized International Rights Statements

This white paper is the product of a joint Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)-Europeana working group organized to develop minimum rights statement metadata standards for organizations that contribute to DPLA and Europeana. This white paper deals specifically with the technical infrastructure of a common namespace (rightsstatements.org) that hosts the rights statements to be used by (at minimum) the DPLA and Europeana. These recommendations for a common technical infrastructure for rights statements outline a simple, flexible, and extensible framework to host the rights statements at rightsstatements.org. This white paper specifically outlines the management of rights statements as linked open data. The rights statements are published according to Best Practices for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. They are encoded into dereferenceable URIs, express further information encoded in RDF, and link to existing vocabularies and standards. The rights statements adhere to expressions of existing rights vocabularies. Furthermore the paper reviews the publication and implementation to make the rights statements available through human-readable web pages augmented with machine-readable formats.

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arXiv2022

Rightsstatements.org White Paper: Requirements for the Technical Infrastructure for Standardized International Rights Statements

This document is part of the deliverables created by the RightsStatements.org consortium. It provides the technical requirements for implementation of the Standardized International Rights Statements. These requirements are based on the principles and specifications found in the normative Recommendations for Standardized International Rights Statements. This document replaces and supersedes the previously released Recommendations for the Technical Infrastructure for Standardized Rights Statements, released by this working group. The Requirements for the Technical Infrastructure for Standardized International Rights Statements describes the expected behaviours for a service that enables the delivery of human and machine-readable representations of the rights statements. It documents the fundamental decisions that informed the development of a data model grounded in Linked Data approaches. This document also provides proposed implementation guidelines and a non-normative set of examples for incorporating rights statements into provider metadata.

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arXiv2013

Achieving interoperability between the CARARE schema for monuments and sites and the Europeana Data Model

Mapping between different data models in a data aggregation context always presents significant interoperability challenges. In this paper, we describe the challenges faced and solutions developed when mapping the CARARE schema designed for archaeological and architectural monuments and sites to the Europeana Data Model (EDM), a model based on Linked Data principles, for the purpose of integrating more than two million metadata records from national monument collections and databases across Europe into the Europeana digital library.

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arXiv2013

Hierarchical structuring of Cultural Heritage objects within large aggregations

Huge amounts of cultural content have been digitised and are available through digital libraries and aggregators like Europeana.eu. However, it is not easy for a user to have an overall picture of what is available nor to find related objects. We propose a method for hier- archically structuring cultural objects at different similarity levels. We describe a fast, scalable clustering algorithm with an automated field selection method for finding semantic clusters. We report a qualitative evaluation on the cluster categories based on records from the UK and a quantitative one on the results from the complete Europeana dataset.

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