Antoine Isaac

Research and Development

R&D Manager Europeana Foundation Netherlands, NL Cultural Heritage

Antoine focuses on R&D for making data work better, and manages collaborations with peers from all over the place, including W3C, DCMI or any other relevant/enthusiastic community. Antoine studied computer science in France, and has not yet managed to cut ties with the Free University Amsterdam, where he served as a postdoc before moving to Europeana in 2009. He still goes there once in a while to get good research vibes from the Semantic Web and Linked Data people there.

News posts

Publication Created: 8 April 2024 Antoine Isaac

Review of the Europeana Data Model to support 3D

Edm Europeanatech Europeana-data-model Metadata 3d Data-space

This report presents an analysis of the Europeana Data Model (EDM) from the perspective of enhancing representation of 3D in Europeana.eu, both in terms of accommodating a larger quantity of items and representations, and higher quality of information.

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Title:

Emakuppude kontrollimine

Creator:

Kuznetsov, P. (fotograaf)

Date:

1963

Institution:

Eesti Maaelumuuseumid

Country:

Estonia

Copyright:

CC0

Publication Created: 8 September 2023 Antoine Isaac

Methodology for validating enrichments

Linked-open-data Data-quality Semantic-enrichment Enrichment Artificial-intelligence Data-space

Seeking to address one of the principles of the Enrichments Policy for the common European data space for cultural heritage, the Europeana Foundation R&D team has created a first version of a methodology for evaluating and validating the results of (automatic) enrichment efforts.

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Title:

Dreamer talking to Bel-Acoeil from BL Royal 20 A XVII, f. 120v

Date:

c. 1340

Institution:

British Library

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 13 January 2021 Antoine Isaac

Approaches for handling multilingualism for digital cultural heritage

Data standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Europeanatech Multilinguality Translation

Providing seamless access to collections in multiple languages has been a key objective for Europeana since its inception. In this post, we give an update on recent strategic developments at Europeana on this topic and introduce a new issue of EuropeanaTech Insight dedicated to multilingualism in digital cultural heritage.

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Title:

Mikrofon

Creator:

Standard Telephone & Cables Ltd

Institution:

Tekniska museet

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 5 December 2019 Antoine Isaac

Help build multilingual systems for digital cultural heritage

Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries Europeanatech Multilinguality

Access to digital cultural heritage across languages is a priority for the Europeana community and beyond, with a recent EU Presidency meeting in Helsinki highlighting why multilingualism is crucial for us and society. In this post, we explore some of the proposals for improving the multilingual aspects of the Europeana Collections portal and tell you what you can do to help build multilingual systems for digital cultural heritage.

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Title:

Dieppe, église Saint-Jacques-PM 07142

Date:

2007

Institution:

PMR Maeyaert

Country:

Europe

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 3 April 2019 Antoine Isaac Nuno Freire

Europeana and the FAIR principles for research data

Data standards Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions Academic Research Europeanatech Data-quality Research

What are the ‘FAIR’ principles used by the research community? Why do they matter for Europeana? And how do our data and services comply with them?

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News Created: 20 May 2015 Antoine Isaac Mark Matienzo

Developing and implementing a technical framework for interoperable rights statements

Cultural Heritage Institutions Europeanatech Lodlam Multilinguality Rightsstatements-org

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News Created: 5 November 2014 Antoine Isaac

Cultural heritage institutions re-ingesting enriched metadata

Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions Metadata Lodlam Multilinguality Data-quality Enrichment

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News Created: 21 March 2014 Antoine Isaac Juliane Stiller Vivien Petras

A Multilingual and Semantic Enrichment Strategy

Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions Europeanatech Multilinguality Enrichment

The Task Force set out to find solutions to prevent enrichment errors and flaws that decrease the overall quality of the metadata in Europeana.

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News Created: 11 March 2013 Antoine Isaac

Europeana at South by Southwest, Texas

Strategy Cultural Heritage Institutions

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