International

Europeana has successfully ingested the first set of content via the Collections Trust run national aggregator, Culture Grid.

For the UK this process has been relatively simple because of our lead, when compared with most of Europe, in having a national aggregator. The Culture Grid has an OAI-PMH feed which allowed Europeana to harvest content directly without human intervention at our end.

The first work that needed to be carried out was the mapping of the metadata in the Culture Grid to the Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE) format being used by Europeana. With this in place it was possible for us to provide OAI URLs for the separate collections in the Grid. Europeana ingests the data, produces indexes and caches a thumbnail image where available.

On the Europeana portal only the descriptions of a provider’s content is held and a small preview image are stored. Links are given to the content on the provider’s own website directly. This means that Europeana does not hold the content itself.

Organisations with content in Europeana via Culture Grid are:

• Beamish Treasures;
• Bedes World;
• Bowes Museum;
• Durham County Council;
• iSee Gateshead;
• Kirklees Images;
• Lambeth Landmark;
• Leodis (Leeds);
• Picture The Past (East Midlands);
• Portable Antiquities Scheme;
• Tyne and Wear Imagine.

As content becomes available it will also be ingested by Europeana. Already planned is content from:

• Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge);
• Visual Arts Data Service;
• Wiltshire Heritage Museum (Devizes).

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