EUROPEANA DATA MODEL: PERSPECTIVE APPROACHES TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study and analyze the experience of the development and data structure of digital Europeana cultural objects, a generalization of the main characteristics of metadata, the definition of significant criteria for their design. The methodology consists of the application of general scientific and special methods, in particular a systematic approach, as well as analysis, synthesis, generalization to thestudy of experience and the basic principles of developing Europeana Data Model. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the analysis and generalization of approaches to the development of data models of historical and cultural heritage digital objects in the framework of the Europeana project. The fundamental principles of developing such models that will be useful to developers of digital humanities projects in Ukraine areclarified. Conclusions: it is determined that the essential, in the process of developing a model of cultural objects is to ensure: completeness (the ability to describe any cultural objects), interoperability (compatibility with international standards for the data description and exchange), manufacturability (support for modern web technologies), relatedness (implementation of semantic relationships data), contextualization (mappingthe context of cultural objects: personalities, institutions, organizations, geography, chronology, subject, etc.), integration (connection with external information sources), scalability (the entry into the world of open linked data system).Key words: Europeana, Europeana Data Model, digital cultural objects, cultural heritage metadata, semantic data models.