Publishing Europe's Television Heritage on the Web

Linked European television heritage

The EUscreen project represents the European television archives and acts as a domain aggregator for Europeana, Europe’s digital library. The main motivation for its creation was 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 ...

Preserving Europe's Cultural Heritage in the Digital World

This paper examines the potential for preserving Europe's cultural heritage in a digital world. After an extensive literature review on the economics of museums and the digitization of cultural heritage, it highlights national and international political initiatives to create cooperative cultural heritage systems. As a mean of achieving global integration while simultaneously keeping institutio...

Television Heritage and the Semantic Web: Video Active and EUscreen

How to deal with massively heterogeneous cultural heritage data - lessons learned in CultureSampo

This paper presents the CultureSampo system from the viewpoint of publishing heterogeneous linked data as a service. Discussed are the problems of converting legacy data into linked data, as well as the challenge of making the massively heterogeneous yet interlinked cultural heritage content interoperable on a semantic level. In the approach described, the data is published not only for human u...

Discovering Europeana Users' Search Behavior

Europeana is a strategic project funded by the European Commission with the goal of making Europe's cultural and scientific heritage accessible to the public. ASSETS is a two-­ year BLOCKIN BLOCKIN performance, accessibility and usability of the Europeana search engine. Here we present a characterization of the Europeana logs by showing statistics on common behavioral patterns of the Europeana ...