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Europeana – a Search Engine for Digitised Cultural Heritage Material

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Europeana is a large-scale search engine for digitised cultural heritage material. It aggregates metadata from various European institutions such as libraries, archives, museums and galleries. The heterogeneous data and the enormous scale (53 million objects in over 50 languages) pose specific challenges for search and exploration. In this paper, we address the different challenges and solutions for information access within Europeana including information needs, data enrichment, ranking and other search aspects for digital cultural heritage.

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Notes

  1. http://strategy2020.europeana.eu/

  2. http://www.europeana.eu

  3. http://www.europeana.eu/portal/de/collections/art

  4. http://pro.europeana.eu/page/edm-documentation

  5. https://dp.la/

  6. https://lucene.apache.org/solr/. MongoDB (to effect virtual joins between documents) and Neo4J (for storing the structure of hierarchical objects) are also used.

  7. https://github.com/europeana/contrib/tree/master/bm25f-ranking

  8. http://www.paths-project.eu/

  9. http://pro.europeana.eu/taskforce/evaluation-and-enrichments

  10. http://pkiraly.github.io/

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    Vivien Petras, Juliane Stiller & Maria Gäde

  2. Europeana Foundation, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, 2595, Den Haag, Niederlande

    Timothy Hill

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Petras, V., Hill, T., Stiller, J. et al. Europeana – a Search Engine for Digitised Cultural Heritage Material. Datenbank Spektrum 17, 41–46 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-016-0238-1

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