Summary of the previous MINT training session.

1. RECAP OF THE
PREVIOUS TRAINING
SESSION
Nikolaos Simou - NTUA

2. Outline
 Basic Concepts
 EDM
 EDM Sounds Profile
 MINT instance for Europeana Sounds
 Topics to be discussed in the 2nd Training

3. Basic Concepts - EDM
 Europeana Data Model
 The Europeana Data Model (EDM) is aimed at
being an integration medium for collecting,
connecting and enriching the descriptions
provided by Europeana content providers.
 EDM is an ontology. In other words it can be
considered as a vocabulary consisting of classes
and properties that describe the Digitized Cultural
Heritage domain
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4. EDM Classes and Properties
 Classes
 edm:ProvidedCHO
 edm:WebResource
 edm:Agent
 edm:Place
 edm:Timespan
 skos:Concept
 ore:Aggregation
 edm:Collection
 Properties
 dc:title or dc:description
 dc:language for text
objects
 dc:subject or dc:type or
dc:coverage or
dcterms:spatial
 edm:type
 edm:dataProvider
 edm:isShownAt
 edm:isShownBy
 edm:object
 edm:provider
 edm:rights
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EDM full documentation at http://pro.europeana.eu/page/edm-
documentation

5. Basic Concepts – EDM Sounds
 EDM Sounds Profile
 An extension of the EDM ontology for better fitting
the content provided by the Europeana Sounds
Project
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 Classes
 mo:MusicGroup
 Properties
 mo:remaster_of
 mo:track_number
 ebucore:hasGenre
 ebucore:dateDigitise
d
 …EDM Sounds full documentation at
http://pro.europeana.eu/taskforce/edm-profile-for-sound

6. What is MINT?
 MINT is an open source, web based platform
for Metadata INTeroperability
 It has been successfully used in more than 15
Europeana feeder projects
 More than 6.000.000 metadata records have
been produced by it and published on Europeana
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7. MINT for Europeana Sounds
 Available at
 http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/sounds/
 MINT is used within the project for
 The transformation of providers in house
metadata to high quality EDM Sounds and EDM
metadata.
 The publication of EDM metadata on Europeana.

8. MINT Workflow
 Create a user and an organization
 Import your metadata
 Perform a mapping to EDM Sounds
 Check the validity of your mapping
 Transform your metadata
 Preview, check the quality and publish
 Check the numbers on NTUA’s OAI-PMH
server

9. Create a user and an
organization
 http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/sounds/
 Click on “I want to register”
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10. User Registration
 Fill in the form
and click on
“Submit”
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11. Create new organization
 Administration  Create new
organisation
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12. User roles
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 Administrator: This user can create/update/delete
users and children organizations for the organization he
is administering.
 Annotator & Publisher: This user has all the rights of
an annotator as well as rights to perform final publishing
of data.
 Annotator: This user can upload data for his/her
organization (and any children organizations) and
perform all available data handling functions (view items,
delete items, mappings etc) provided by the system,
apart from final publishing of data.
 Data Viewer: This user only has viewing rights for his
organization
 No role: A user that has registered for an organization
but has not yet been assigned any rights.

13. Import your metadata
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 Formats
 CSV
 UTF-8 Encoding
 XML file containing metadata for one or many records
 ZIP/TGZ file containing many XML files –one per cultural
heritage object
 Protocols
 HTTP upload
 Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH)
 Import Recommendations
 TGZ files containing no more than 50.000 XML files

14. Import your metadata
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 My workspace  Import new archive

15. 15
Define Items

16. Create new mapping
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 My workspace  Dataset Name
Mappings New Mapping

17. 17
Mapping editor
Input
Schema
Area
Mapping
Area
Navigation
Area

18. Input Schema Area
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 The tree
represents the
snapshot of the
XML schema that
is used as input for
the mapping
process. The user
is able to navigate
and access
element statistics
and also to search
the tree by using
the text field on the
top.

19. Navigation Area
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 Shortcuts to the EDM classes

20. Navigation Area (Cont.)
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 Bookmarks
 A user can set/unset a
bookmark to an
element by clicking on
the star ( ) on its
right

21. Navigation Area (Cont.)
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 Mandatory elements that are not mapped

22. Navigation Area (Cont.)
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 Search the target schema

23. Mappings
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Mapping
Xpath
Constant
Concatenate
Value
Functional
Conditional
Structural
Thesaurus

24. Preview & Validation
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25. Europeana Preview
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26. Transform Items
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 Dataset Options Transform  Mapping

27. Preview Transformed Items
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 The transformation icon appears next to the
dataset and the derived dataset appears under the
transformation

28. Prepare for publish
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 A crosswalk creates the EDM dataset from the EDM
Sounds transformation.

29. Publish
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 The publication icon appears next to the dataset
and both dataset (EDM Sounds and EDM) are sent to
NTUA’s OAI-PMH server

30. MINT Workflow
Harvestin
g
Mapping
MIN
T
OA
I
Europea
na
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Transformati
on
Publicatio
n
Statistics Import Mapping XSL Output
Europeana
A  B …
NoSQL

31. Topics to be discussed
 Mappings using EDM Collection
 Advanced mapping functionalities
 Functional mapping
 Conditional mapping
 Value mapping
 Structural mapping
 Structural on any element
 Thesauri mapping
 Updating published datasets on Europeana
 Monitoring of metadata production

32. Contact
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Nikolaos Simou
National Technical University of Athens
Email: nsimou@image.ntua.gr
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nikolaos-
simou/68/31a/9aa