EDM Online Course
This course aims to help you understand why the Europeana Foundation developed the Europeana Data Model (EDM), how it works, how you can get a EDM records from MARC21 records and what is best practice in creating EDM mappings.
The course is divided into three sections. Each section consists mainly of narrated presentations in which we explain the EDM concepts in a way that’s easy to understand.
Section 1 - The basics of EDM
- Why does Europeana need EDM?
- What led to the creation of EDM?
- How does it relate to other metadata schemes?
- What are the main building blocks of EDM?
Section 2 - Advanced specifications
- What are the main classes of EDM?
- What should the main values in EDM look like?
- How do the values chosen in EDM affect what people see on the Europeana website?
Section 3 - Transforming MARC21 to EDM
- What is the process for data transformation from MARC21 to EDM?
- How do you map MARC21 values to the relevant EDM fields?
- Case study: National Library of Serbia mapping experience
- Case study: National and University Library of Debrecen record's journey into the Europeana website
We hope you enjoy this course and find it useful in your work!
Your instructors,
Adina, Henning, Uldis, Pierre and Maike
Adina Ciocoiu
Metadata Coordinator
Europeana Foundation
Data Publishing Services
Henning Scholz
Partner & Operations Manager
Europeana Foundation
Data Publishing Services
Uldis Zarinš
Deputy State Secretary
Ministry of Culture Latvia
Network Association Member
Pierre-Edouard Barrault
Funder, Former Europeana Data Ingestion Specialist
Muzz.app
Maike Dulk
Software Developer
Europeana Foundation
Platform Services