The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to
Europeana. This element is specifically included to allow the name of the
organisation who supplies data to Europeana indirectly via an aggregator to be
recorded and displayed in the portal. Aggregator names are recorded in edm:provider.
If an organisation provides data directly to Europeana (i.e. not via an aggregator)
the values in edm:dataProvider and edm:provider will be the same. Although the range
of this property is given as edm:Agent organisation names should be provided as an
ordinary text string until a Europeana authority file for organisations has been
established. At that point providers will be able to send an identifier from the
file instead of a text string. The name provided should be the preferred form of the
name in the language the provider chooses as the default language for display in the
portal. Countries with multiple languages may prefer to concatenate the name in more
than one language (See the example below.) Note: Europeana Data Provider is not
necessarily the institution where the physical object is located. Example: The
current <edm:dataProvider>Palais des Beaux Arts de
Lille</edm:dataProvider> could become <edm:dataProvider>http://
www.pba-lille.fr/</edm:dataProvider>
Schema fragment(s) for this class:
<xs:element xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:ns1="http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" type="ns:ResourceOrLiteralType" name="dataProvider"/>