Adopting the Europeana Data Model (EDM) for Describing Resources in Cultural Heritage Systems: A Case Study of Taiwan Memory

Wei Hsiang Hung, Hao Ren Ke*

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Abstract

Taiwan Memory (TM) is a digital library that stores digital cultural heritage (CH) resources from the National Central Library and other CH institutions in Taiwan and provides public access. In this paper, we adopt the Europeana Data Model (EDM) as the foundation and map the metadata elements of TM to EDM classes in order to improve the current metadata landscape for the system and to make the digital objects more discoverable and accessible on the Internet. Four postcards of Taiwanese aboriginal Amis are selected to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed Taiwan Memory Conceptual Data Model in describing the TM resources. This study provides experiences of adopting EDM for an existing CH system. The processes of EDM mapping, entity enrichment, institution identification, and resource description are elaborated. It is hoped that the implication and the adoption of EDM in this study might provide invaluable information for the future development of TM or be beneficial to other CH systems that are planning to adopt EDM or other semantic data models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFrom Born-Physical to Born-Virtual
Subtitle of host publicationAugmenting Intelligence in Digital Libraries - 24th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2022, Proceedings
EditorsYuen-Hsien Tseng, Marie Katsurai, Hoa N. Nguyen
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages392-400
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783031217555
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2022 - Hanoi, Viet Nam
Duration: 2022 Nov 302022 Dec 2

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13636 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2022
Country/TerritoryViet Nam
CityHanoi
Period2022/11/302022/12/02

Keywords

  • Cultural heritage system
  • Europeana Data Model (EDM)
  • Metadata
  • Metadata aggregation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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