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Enriching Metadata
MIMO-DB: MIMO Aggregator BackOffice
The MIMO-DB was developed as part of the MIMO Project (Musical Instrument Museums Online). This service is used by all partners to monitor the harvesting and enrichment of their metadata. It allows for multilingual search. The MIMO-DB is a professional front-end to an XML database using the new LIDO museum metadata model.
MIMO-DB features:
- OAI harvesting management
- Metadata enrichment before ingestion, i.e. linking automation to
- Instrument keywords
- Instrument Makers Authorities
- Geographical Locations using Geonames
- Enrichment "monitoring" using reports
- Search and retrieval of LIDO-based Musical Instruments records
See the MIMO-DB prototype
For more information, or to give feedback, please contact: Rodolphe Bailly.
The EuropeanaConnect Gazetteer - A rich data resource including over 9m geographic names, co-ordinates, and boundaries.
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The EuropeanaConnect Gazetteer is a Geographical Information Service. This rich data resource gives service providers access to over 9 million geographic names, co-ordinates, and boundaries.
By enriching Europeana's metadata with these geographic references, it is possible to identify features such as continents, countries, cities, monuments and rivers contained in the objects on Europeana. The service also has a multi-lingual aspect. Users can search for a single term such as "London" and retrieve results for objects marked with "Londres" or "Londyn".
Information in the EuropeanaConnect Gazetteer has been collected from free data sources, which means there are no legal constraints to its use and re-use. Information from additional data sources is also continuously integrated, ensuring the service is kept up to date.
See the prototype: The Europeana Gazetteer Prototype
For more information, or to give feedback, please contact: André Soares; and Gilberto Pedrosa.
The EuropeanaConnect Geoparser - A tool to extract place names from text. (EuropeanaConnect)
This tool works with the EuropeanaConnect Gazetteer.
EuropeanaConnect Georparser enables users to enter unstructured or partially structured text such as metadata records and then receive a list of geographic features that are referred to in their text. The results can be returned as XML or HTML.See the prototype: The EuropeanaConnect Geoparser Prototype
For more information, or to give feedback, please contact: Nuno Freire.