{"id":1803,"date":"2011-10-17T19:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2011-12-21T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T16:29:16","slug":"interview-with-vassilis-tzouvaras-of-metadata-interoperability-services-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2011\/10\/17\/interview-with-vassilis-tzouvaras-of-metadata-interoperability-services-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Vassilis Tzouvaras of Metadata Interoperability Services (MINT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, Vassilis Tzouvaras discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/entries\/metadata-interoperability-services\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metadata Interoperability Services (MINT)<\/a>, a web-based platform that enables the aggregation of rich and diverse cultural heritage content and metadata. Asked to present at this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\/get-involved\/events\/oct2011plenary\/\">plenary meeting<\/a> in Washington, DC, Vassilis and his colleagues at the National Technical University of Athens have designed a user and organization management system that allows for the deployment and operation of different aggregation schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations can upload their metadata records in XML or CSV format using various upload methods, and users can define their metadata crosswalks with the help of a visual mappings editor. MINT has already been used in a number of European metadata aggregation projects, most notably in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/portal\/\">Europeana&#8217;s<\/a> efforts to aggregate over 4 million items of museum content across 135 organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/files\/2011\/10\/Vassilis-Tzouvaras-edited.mp3\">Listen to the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, Vassilis Tzouvaras discusses Metadata Interoperability Services (MINT), a web-based platform that enables the aggregation of rich and diverse cultural heritage content and metadata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4454,"featured_media":1802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[956,52123,923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-beta-sprint","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/files\/2011\/10\/MINT_screengrab.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}