2023-10-11 –, Conference room
Rhineland-Palatinate has a rich and diverse cultural heritage, but many of the preserving institutions there are smaller, with a specialised local or thematic focus. To support digital access this cultural treasure, a superordinate state portal "Cultural Heritage Portal Rhineland-Palatinate" is being developed. This portal will aggregate and link digital objects of the various institutions in the state. It will act as a pre-aggregator to supra-regional digital cultural portals such as the German Digital Library and Europeana.eu and make the state’s cultural heritage searchable and accessible worldwide.
While the metadata are recorded in digital form in most institutions, the use of standards like LIDO or EAD and of vocabularies like Geonames remains a domain of a few large institutions.
One of the state’s preserving institutions is the Mainz Carnival Museum. The museum’s collection covers 160 years of Mainz carnival history. All objects are digitised and recorded with detailed, collection specific metadata, but so far aren’t accessible for the public. In this real-life example, the extraction, mapping, and enrichment of metadata is presented. The resulting EDM record is as rich as possible and follows international standards – ready for further cascading aggregation towards Europeana.eu. Join this session to learn more.
Marko Knepper is head of the Digital Library Services department of the University Library Mainz. He graduated from the University of Göttingen after studying physics and computer science. Earlier positions include the Hessian State Library in Wiesbaden and the University Library Frankfurt am Main. He is involved in various digitisation and aggregation projects where his focus is on the modeling and enrichment of metadata in order to improve the visibility and usability of content.
