Enrichments of metadata

During Europeana’s data ingestion process, the received metadata undergoes semantic enrichment — a process in which additional information is added to records by linking to contextual resources such as places, concepts, agents, time periods and organisations.

This section outlines the semantic enrichment process currently used at Europeana, explaining both the rationale for enriching cultural heritage objects and the methods applied. It also describes how Europeana supports the semantic and multilingual vocabularies used by data partners:

Steps for supporting a new vocabulary

Semantic enrichment with contextual resources

Semantic enrichment with Europeana organisation entities

Content negotiation