(Extensible Markup Language): XML is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. XML's design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the internet. It is a [..]

In the set of formats, SKOS is more and more required by Web services. Europeana for instance has decided to format in SKOS all the metadata they harvest for a homogeneous and effective exploitation o [..]

The Data the Aggregator collects from the Data Providers.  

The unit of Metadata concerning a single Content object.

Unified Ingestion Management tool, also called Ingestion Control Panel, represents the extensible framework to manage the whole ingestion process.   

Uniform Resource Identifier, URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) are URIs.

A kind of Enrichment by applying a set of Mapping rules to Raw Data in order to produce new Enriched Data structured according to a target Data Schema. It is important to stress that a Transformation [..]

A reduced size or length audio and/or visual representation of Content, in the form of one or more images, text files, audio files and/or moving image files.

The Resource Description Framework is a family of W3C specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. The RDF data model is based upon the idea of making statements about resources (in pa [..]

The Web Ontology Language is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. The languages are characterised by formal semantics and RDF/XML-based serializations for the Seman [..]