Europeana Publication Policy v1.0

2014-12-11

A guide for aggregators and data providers on metadata and content requirements’ (http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/858566/5ba30212-61bc-4ac0-bd32-8f2f4d3dbe12). It gathers in a single and concise text information and practices that have been discussed and laid down over the years in various documents and policies ranging from the Data Exchange Agreement to the Public Domain Charter and the EDM mapping guidelines.

Pay attention just to some statements that are important for the publication of the remaining records:

  • Datasets are prioritised for publication if the edm:rights in the majority of the metadata of the dataset is PDM, CC0, OOC-NC, CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND.
  • Datasets are prioritised for publication if the edm:isShownBy in the majority of the metadata of the dataset is a direct link to the digital object.
  • Every metadata record describing a text object (e.g. book, manuscript, letter) must have the language of the document in the metadata (dc:language) (some providers forget this issue!).