The Europeana Data Model (EDM) is an interoperable framework that allows us to collect, connect and enrich cultural heritage metadata. These pages provide information and guidance on how to map or describe your data to, and with, the Europeana Data Model before delivery.
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.
This case study explores how the Nomisma.org project has extended its own data model with the EDM profile for IIIF and re-used its data guidelines in order to enable IIIF images within the viewer of Numishare and Coinage of the Roman Republic Online.
This case study describes how the Specialised Information Service Performing Arts project has re-used the EDM extension created by the DM2E project, and discusses challenges in representing events in the context of the performing arts.
This case study presents the work performed on the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg collections, with the outcome of implementing IIIF features and greatly improved metadata quality.
This case study shows how to provide multilingual data in EDM.
This case study explains how data providers can help Europeana enrich its data with the Art and Architecture Thesaurus.
This case study looks at two initiatives that have found EDM a useful resource for teaching professionals and students about metadata and linked open data.
This case study explores the Linking History site, a research tool for students participating in the History in Place project. The project's data has been modelled using EDM.
This case study details the mappings decisions the CARARE project had to take when converting data in EDM. It discusses the creation of identifiers for resources, the representation of archaeological objects and the cultural objects related to them, and the representation of entities for places.
The Polymath Virtual Library shows how the semantic relationships between authors and their works have been described using EDM.
Using experiments from the EuropeanaConnect and APEnet projects, this case study investigates how archival data using the EAD standard can be mapped and converted to EDM.
The Europeana Linked Open Data pilot illustrates how EDM can be used for publishing linked data. This case study develops the lessons learned from porting legacy (ESE) metadata into EDM.
This case study looks at how the Europeana Libraries project has specialised EDM for library materials.
This case study shows how to attach several digital representations to one cultural heritage object, how to link your resources to external Linked Open Data vocabularies and also discusses other mappings specificities.
This Task Force described a set of recommendations for the adaptation of the current Europeana Data Model (EDM) for audio and audio-related objects.
This Task Force delivered combined models in terms of properties and classes of EDM and FRBRoo illustrated by sample data.
