Marie-Véronique Leroi
Marie-Véronique Leroi is in charge of the Linked Open Data strategy in the French Ministère de la Culture. She is a project manager in the Department of digital for transformation for cultural policies and data management in the Ministry of Culture. She has a background on linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). She is now responsible for updating and implementing the national strategy on semantic web for cultural data. She is the representative of France in CEDCHE expert group of the European Commission. She is currently the chair of the Europeana Aggregators' Forum.
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The common European data space for cultural heritage (Data Space, for short) is one of 14 data spaces initiated by the European Commission. Building on Europeana’s major accomplishments in open data, community building, and data aggregation, it challenges the initiative to grow, innovate, and rethink its approach to cultural heritage data.
The Data Space will become a sustainable and trusted ecosystem for producers and users of European cultural data. It will thrive by building bridges with similar initiatives on various levels: European initiatives such as the SSHOC Marketplace and the European Open Science Cloud and national initiatives such as the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE). Such collaborations with new entities and coordination with local and national initiatives will require a more flexible and adaptive approach to support the inclusion of more diverse types of data. The Data Space will need to embrace a more open and decentralised approach to data sharing to enhance cooperation across the sector and accelerate its digital transformation. Semantic interoperability and technologies like Linked Data and SOLID can be enablers of this change.