Vocabularies used by Europeana data providers

This page will contain lists and pointers of controlled vocabularies (thesauri, person list, gazeteers, etc) which may be relevant for semantic enrichment, semantic alignment, etc. (e.g. http://europeanalabs.eu/ticket/1282).


A long time ago: http://europeanalabs.eu/ticket/511 The surveys made then by Europeana Office and Europeana connect are now in the Operations document space: http://pro.europeana.eu/group/europeana-office/documents/-/document_library/view/973766In particular, three surveys (by Go Sugimoto, EConnect WP1, EConnect WP2) are in the spreadsheethttp://pro.europeana.eu/documents/900548/20405e4d-d2ad-4275-b2ca-73402300e396

  • ECLAP vocabularies
    • Subject (e.g., Teaching, Philosophy, Multiculture
    • Genre (e.g., Comedy, Comic, Drama)
    • Historical period (e.g., Contemporary, Classical, XX Century)
    • Movement and style (e.g., Experimental, Theatre of the absurd)
    • Performing arts type (e.g., Dance, Ballet, Music, Rock, Theatre, Noh)
    • Management and organization (e.g., Performance, Choreography )
  • Open-Up
    • Agent: The Virtual International Authority File. - VIAF for authors
    • Place: use of geonames
    • Concept: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) to describe species, World Polychaeta Database, The International Plant Names Index.
    • Darwin Core Type Vocabulary for the specimen in edm: HasType
    • Time: use of the semium ontology http://vocabularies.gbif.org/geo_chronostrat/Paleozoic for geologic periods
Cecile: the list of vocabularies dereferenced by Europeana can also be found here now: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BoDNolkcp_qfvVShdOZyGcf61XslcwKF2MdGcjgYs20/edit#gid=0

Agent resources provided by data providers


We list here the data providers who gave us some edm:Agent

  • The Rijks has that kind of data taken from their local vocabulary:

http://europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=europeana_collectionName%3A90402*+edm_agent%3A*&rows=24

  • Some Partage plus collections have their local vocabulary:

http://europeana.eu/portal/record/2026118/_Dj_GK_002.html?start=1&query=europeana_collectionName%3A20261*+edm_agent%3A*+NOT%28edm_agent%3A*viaf*%29&startPage=1&rows=24

  • Some others from Partage Plus use viaf:

http://europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=europeana_collectionName%3A20261*+edm_agent%3A*viaf*&rows=24

  • The sample from DM2E:

http://europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=europeana_collectionName%3A20486*+edm_agent%3A*+NOT%28edm_agent%3A*dbpedia*%29&rows=24

  • Also a DCA set that has viaf:

http://europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=europeana_collectionName%3A20260*+edm_agent%3A*+NOT%28edm_agent%3A*dbpedia*%29&rows=24

  • Digitale Collectie:

http://europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=edm_agent%3A*+NOT%28edm_agent%3A*dbpedia*%29&rows=24&qf=PROVIDER%3A%22Digitale+Collectie%22