The paper focuses on the experience in publishing content for the Linked Heritage project, providing Europeana metadata information of two important Cypriot collections of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation: the Byzantine Museum and the Art Gallery. The paper introduces a workflow pipeline, starting with the creation of digital resources, through elaboration of descripting metadata schema, its harvesting and the online publication.

Publishing cultural heritage content for digital libraries: The case of the collections of the Byzantine Museum and Art Gallery of the Archbishop Makarios III foundation

A historical newspapers digital library contains the basic elements and relations of a digital library, but also some special features and functions necessary for processing its content - huge amount of digitised pages with complex granularity and large amount of (historical) text. Descriptive metadata of newspapers are usually available on the title level only and the full-text search depends on the accuracy of OCR as well as orthographic and semantic issues of historical text. The characteristics of the historical newspapers digital library content pose a challenge for information retrieval and give rise to the following questions: How do users search digitised historical newspapers?, How do they formulate their search queries?, What topics are they looking for?, How do they deal with historical text issues?. Data stored in the historical newspapers digital library search logs can provide some of the answers and help to improve information access. The paper reports on the results of the semantic analysis of the Croatian Historical Newspapers Portal user queries.

Semantic analysis of the user queries in the Croatian Historical Newspapers Portal log file

Meeting: 80 — Inspired moments in cataloguing — Cataloguing Abstract: As libraries collect and provide more resources in digital formats, new units of granularity have emerged in access and description. Digital surrogates or born-digital resources make it possible for users to access resources at more granular levels, e.g., a book or journal title can be accessed at chapter level, article level, and page level in addition to the book or journal title as a whole. To provide granular levels of access, metadata should be created at granular levels as well. This paper discusses why the emerging need for granularity of access and description makes the cataloging and metadata process a highly collaborative work, and suggests a way to design and create a metadata schema for describing granular levels of resources.

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Myung-Ja Han

Papers

Metadata with Levels of Description: New Challenges to Catalogers and Metadata Librarians