Sorry, to be a little more constructive:
If you can describe the difference between Europeana's functionality now
and your vision for your CKAN implementation, that would be helpful for
providing advice.
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Are these GLAMs also putting cultural heritage data into Europeana? You
> can already filter by country (that holds the work) in Europeana.There are
> 6 million objects from the Netherlands. Your energy might be better spent
> either harvesting Dutch material back out of Europeana into a separate
> Netherland-only interface or by focusing on integrating smaller
> institutions into Europeana via OAI-PMH.
>
> In fact, your own material are in Europeana:
> http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search?f%5BCOUNTRY%5D%5B%5D=netherlands&f%5BTYPE%5D%5B%5D=SOUND&q=
>
> Ethan
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Johan Oomen <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> In the Netherlands, we’re working on overhauling our current (OAI-PMH)
>> aggregation infrastructure towards a more distributed model. The aim is to
>> create a comprehensive collection of digitised cultural heritage objects
>> held by GLAMs across the country. A major component of the new
>> infrastructure is a register with collections. We are using CKAN as the
>> data management system for these collections.
>>
>> We are currently installing and configuring CKAN, and use DCAT for
>> describing datasets. We are interested in seeing other examples of
>> registries that describes digital heritage collections using the CKAN
>> software. One of the challenges we encounter is describing multi level
>> datasets like collection and sub-collections in the context of DCAT. An
>> example is a data provider in the Netherlands that provides an aggregated
>> oral history dataset for target audience ‘oral history’. We registered this
>> aggregated dataset, but we also want to register individual collections for
>> participating organisations. Therefore, the aggregated dataset is divided
>> into parts using xpath, xslt, etc.. Now we want to explicitly mark the
>> dataset parts as being a sub-dataset and vice versa.
>>
>> Question to this community, do you have implementations that use a CKAN
>> based registry for digital heritage collections, have you also dealt with
>> this issue to describe sub-collections in DCAT? How did you manage this?
>>
>> Your help is much appreciated,
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Johan Oomen
>> Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
>> @johanoomen
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