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Of late, cultural memory institutions develop their collections
according to communities’ cultural assets and organize them for information
needs and increase their visibility via cultural memory platforms and
regional solutions. Cultural heritage organizations digitize their
collections and describe metadata fields of every single objects in their
collections. In parallel with these efforts, different and independent
usage of metadata fields expressed as one of the biggest problems of
cultural industries (Dedeler Bezirci, Bostancı & GuÌrel, 2012, p.132).
Europeana describes a data model and explains data structures that will be
ingested to the library via by a primer published in 2013 (Europeana Data
Model, 2013). It is also stated that EDM has three functions, harvest,
integrate and expose, for the creation of heterogeneous metadata from
different European cultures (Eckert, 2012). On the other hand, philosophy
of data model and its relationships were also explained by the studies
(Doerr et al, 2010). EDM with its ontology allows creation of specialized
data models by different institutions and creative industries. Hennicke,
Boer, Isaac, Olensky, and Wielemaker (2011) explain in their studies that
metadata mapping can be carried out and the data can be converted to
EDM from Encoded Archival Description3 (EAD) a metadata standard used for
archival description. Moreover, EDM provides a RDF structure ingested in
Europeana and makes object descriptions available in semantic web formats. It
is also reflected as a strategy by the Europeana with the aim of developing
European digital library as a data transmission platform as well as an
internet portal that presents cultural objects (Eckert, 2012).
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Scientific contribution:
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Preservation of cultural heritage products which created by previous
generations and hosts value in the sense of universal is continue to
progress with technological developments. There are many initiatives and
projects for the protection of cultural heritage products that
transferred to digital media and began to appeal to a wider
geography. With the involvement of the institutions to the Europeana,
description of cultural objects can be presented in more clear
structure. Plus, theoretical framework is drawn according to
literature review and existing conditions and structures on description of
Europeana collection is evaluated in the study. As an originality value
this study identifies the required description processes with EDM framework
for the cultural heritage institutions in terms of aggregation to
Europeana.
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