Programme

Monday 3. October 2011
Time/Location Van Swieten Saal (VSS)
13:00 - 18:00 HACKATHON (for registered Hackathon participants only)
 
Tuesday 4. October 2011
08:00 - 09:00 Registration and Coffee VSS Sala Terrena
Time/Location Camineum
Master of Ceremonies: Costis Dallas
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome
Johanna Rachinger, Director General, Austrian National Library
09:10 - 09:30 Introduction by the Conference Chairs:
Jill Cousins, Europeana Foundation and Max Kaiser, EuropeanaConnect, Austrian National Library
09:30 - 09:50 Europeana, Innovation and Cultural Content online - where do we stand, challenges and opportunities, Marco Marsella, European Commission
09:50 - 10:30 Keynote: The finest digital drawing room in all Europe: how can we build a digital public space? Bill Thompson
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Europeana- An Open Philosophy, Jill Cousins
11:30 -12:30 Introduction to Conference Streams
Session 1: Open Source, Vassilis Tzouvaras, National Technical University Athens
Session 2: Aggregation and (Meta-) Data Quality, Runar Bergheim, Asplan Viak Internet Norway
Session 3: Open Data, Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt University Berlin
Session 4: Explore and Discover, Sjoerd Siebinga, Delving NL
Session 5: Distributed Community Empowerment, Johan Oomen, Sound and Vision, NL
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Time/Location Oratorium Camineum
 

Session 1: Open Source


Chair: Vassilis Tzouvaras, National Technical University Athens

Session 2: Aggregation and (Meta-) Data Quality

Chair: Runar Bergheim, Asplan Viak Internet Norway
13:30 - 13:45 Lead talk via Skype: Software Freedom and Access to Knowledge, Aaron Swartz Lead talk: There is no data like metadata, Franciska de Jong
13:45 - 14:00 Lead talk: Open Software: For the Public Good, Ken Coar
14:00 - 14:15 The opportunities and constraints of the Europeana Data Model, Stefan Gradmann
14:15 - 14:30 Catalyzing Cooperation with an Open Source Time-Line, Gerald de Jong National infrastructure and content aggregation in Norway, Gunnar Urtegaard
14:30 - 14:45 Developing Innovative, Usable and Stable User Interfaces using Open Source Software, Tobias Hesselmann Information Extraction in Metadata: Challenges and Tools, Nuno Freire
14:45 - 15:00 Users, aggregators and Europeana drive MINT development, Nasos Drosopoulos Aggregating cultural heritage collections using automatically generated topic hierarchies, Mark Hall
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:45 Free Software and Open Formats: virtual immortality and independence for digital archives, Peter Bubestinger CARARE: Archaeology and the EDM, Kate Fernie
15:45 - 16:00 Europeana and Open Source, Jan Molendijk Data constraints and quality in a linked open data world, Paul Hermans
16:00 - 16:15 Europeana Remix: an interactive experience around the story of an unlikely friendship during the First World War, David Haskiya Choosing the Right W3C Standard, Phil Archer
16:15 - 17:00 Panel Discussion: Open Source and Free Software - liberty for cultural heritage engineering Panel Discussion: The Search Engines and us: auto-indexing of web content vs Europeana
17:00 - 17:30 Open Microphone - Closing of Day 1 Torsten Hartmann , Adrian Stevenson
17:30 - 19:00 Visit to the State Hall
20:00 Conference Reception Vienna City Hall
 
Wednesday 5. October 2011
Time/Location Camineum Ferdinand Saal Sala Terrena
  Master of Ceremonies: Costis Dallas
09:00 - 09:40 Keynote: Open for engagement: GLAM audiences and digital participation, Mia Ridge
Time/Location Camineum Oratorium Van Swieten Saal
 

Session 3: Open Data


Chair: Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt University Berlin

Session 4: Explore and Discover


Chair: Sjoerd Siebinga, Delving NL

Session 5: Distributed Community Empowerment


Chair: Johan Oomen, Sound and Vision, NL
09:40 - 10:10 Lead talk: Implementing an Open Data programme within government: Top Down, Bottom Up and Middle Out, Andrew Stott Lead talk: Visual Analytics - Detect the Expected and Discover the Unexpected, Silvia Miksch Lead talk: The Changing Face of Citizen Science, Arfon Smith
10:10 - 10:25 data.europeana.eu - Europeana LOD Pilot, Antoine Isaac Where is the Music in Semantics? Why the Oslo Center for Popular Music Runs Semantic Technology, Robert Engels Current development of UGC and the semantic web at The Swedish National Heritage Board, Börje Lewin
10:25 - 10:45 Linked Data - Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space, Anja Jentzsch Europeana 4D - Exploring data in space and time, Ralf Stockmann User-generated video annotations on the Web of Data, Michiel Hildebrand
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:30 Improving the German Digital Library - Data enrichment with culturgraph.org, Markus Geipel Culture on the go, David Nicholas GLAM Wiki - a year in the UK. Making GLAM information available outside and inside cultural institutions, Roger Bamkin
11:30 - 11:45 Open data for the cultural masses - Mapping and the Europeana Semantic Layer, Guus Schreiber Crowdsourcing memories of the First World War in Europe, Alun Edwards
11:45 - 12:00 The Europeana Licensing Framework, Paul Keller Multilingual Access to Europeana - the User Perspective, Maria Gäde The House of Alijn and crowd-sourcing: a natural relation, Sarah Eloy
12:00 - 12:15 HandsOn Activity, Jacco van Ossenbruggen HandsOn Activity: Exploring Visualization Tools End-User Media Annotation with YUMA, Rainer Simon Jury
12:15 - 13:00 Panel Discussion: Stimuli for Empowerment
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
  Master of Ceremonies: Costis Dallas
14:00 - 14:10 Digital Public Library of America Update, Maura Marx
14:10 - 16:00 Europeana Innovation and Community Building, Max Kaiser , Johan Oomen , Maartin Brinkerink , Lizzy Komen
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 HACKATHON - Results, Award Ceremony Awards
17:30 - 18:00 Closing of the Conference