Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. EUscreen Content and Workflow
- 2. The Front-end Design
- 3. The Linked Open Data Pilot
- 4. Conclusions and future work
- References
The EUscreen initiative represents the European television archives and acts as a domain aggregator for Europeana, Europe’s digital library, which provides access to over 20 million digitized cultural objects. The main motivation for the initiative is to provide unified access to a representative collection of television programs, secondary sources and articles, and in this way to allow students, scholars and the general public to study the history of television in its wider context. Representatives of the four primary user groups, i.e. secondary education, academic research, the general public and the cultural heritage domain were consulted in order to define the user requirements and the design of the EUscreen portal. For the Linked Open Data Pilot a mapping was implemented of all the harvesting schemas’ elements to classes and properties of the EBU Core ontology (an RDF representation). In addition to the original data harvested by EUscreen from its data providers, the data served at lod.euscreen.eu/resource/ includes internal links to other videos plus semantic enrichment done by NTUA, connecting EUscreen videos to structured representations of places and languages. These metadata are applied to visualise a timeline of the collection with links to the genres and topics defined for EUscreen so that scholars and researchers can easily filter items in the timeline.
Concise description of the novel ways EUscreen applies to present curated content, making use of the EUscreen metadata published as Linked Open Data.