Abstract

GAONA-GARCIA, Paulo Alonso; FERMOSO-GARCIA, Ana  and  SANCHEZ-ALONSO, Salvador. Exploring the Relevance of Europeana Digital Resources: Preliminary Ideas on Europeana Metadata Quality. Rev. Interam. Bibliot [online]. 2017, vol.40, n.1, pp.59-69. ISSN 0120-0976.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rib.v40n1a06.

Europeana is a European project aimed to become the modern “Alexandria Digital Library”, as it targets providing access to thousands of resources of European cultural heritage, contributed by more than fifteen hundred institutions such as museums, libraries, archives and cultural centers. This article aims to explore Europeana digital resources as open learning repositories in order to re-use digital resources to improve learning process in the domain of arts and cultural heritage. To carry out this purpose, we present results of metadata quality based on a study case associated to recommendations and suggestions that provide this type of initiatives in our educational context in order to improve the access of digital resources according to a specific knowledge areas.

Keywords : Europeana; AAT thesaurus; coverage; metadata; data analysis; metadata quality.

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