Use these pages to learn more about how Europeana performs semantic enrichment and how you can support our work on data quality and multilingual access by enriching your own metadata.
Semantic Enrichment
Creator: Justus Lundegård
Date: 1912
Institution: Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Country: Sweden
Public DomainEuropeana semantic enrichment
Find out how Europeana performs semantic enrichment and how you can enrich your metadata with linked open vocabularies.
Title: Getting Ready for a Game
Creator: Carl Larsson
Date: 1901
Institution: Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Country: Sweden
Public DomainSemantic mindmap
A full overview of the activities related to 'semantics' in the Europeana Network.
Title: Winter Scene from the Stockholm Waterfront
Creator: Alfred Bergström
Date: 1899
Institution: Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Country: Sweden
Public DomainEuropeana Semantic Elements Documentation
The latest ESE documentation and more information on how to make the transition to EDM.
Creator: Palugyay, Zolo
Date: 1930
Institution: Slovak national gallery
Country: Slovakia
Public DomainFLOSS inventory
The FLOSS inventory lists all the Free Libre Open Source Software relevant to Europeana and the cultural heritage world.
Get your vocabularies in Wikidata...
In the case study, Get your vocabularies in Wikidata...so Europeana and others can get them, we are describing the practical steps envisioned, based on recent experimentation done by Sandra Fauconnier consisting of aligning the MIMO vocabulary with Wikidata.
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Task Force recommendations
Creator: Auguste Renoir
Institution: Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Country: Sweden
Public DomainMultilingual and Semantic Enrichment Strategy
The Task Force revealed the common obstacles in automatic semantic enrichments and provided recommendations to overcome some of these issues.
Title: De huwelijksfuik: allegorie op het huwelijk
Date: 1647
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainEvaluation and enrichments
This Task Force explored how automatic enrichments can be very beneficial for enabling retrieval across languages and adding context to resources accessible via Europeana.
Title: A blind man on his knees begging, a woman and dog behind him
Institution: Wellcome Collection
Country: United Kingdom
CC BYHierarchical objects
Hierarchical objects are important for Europeana' s network of projects and data providers. This Task Force made recommendations for the representation of hierarchical objects in Europeana.
Title: De vier regenten, de secretaris en de binnenvader van het Leprozenhuis te Amsterdam
Date: 1773
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainEuropeanaTech FLOSS
The EuropeanaTech task force on the FLOSS Inventory enriched, improved and structured the Inventory which contains over 300 free, libre, open source tools relevant for the EuropeanaTech community.
Semantic Extraction Tools
See below a list of technical options for semantic feature extraction available as well as the relevant actors and technology providers.
Enrichment tools
Title: Achilles wordt ontdekt tussen de dochters van Lycomedes
Creator: Gerard de Lairesse
Date: 1680
Institution: Mauritshuis
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainPATHSenrich
PATHSenrich is web service prototype developed by PATHS project which allows independent content providers to enrich their cultural heritage at item level.
Title: Regatta op het Canal Grande bij de Rialtobrug te Venetië
Date: 1780 - 1793
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainMIMO-VOC - A multilingual vocabulary management tool
MIMO-VOC is multilingual vocabulary management tool developed as part of the MIMO Project (Musical Instrument Museums Online).