Access to Culture through the Digital Shift Ready for Tomorrow. Vilnius, 1-2 September 2013 Jill Cousins

1. Europeana & the Cultural Heritage
Ecosystem
Access to Culture through the Digital Shift
Ready for Tomorrow. Vilnius, 1-2 September 2013

2. “Much more than an economic alliance,
Europe has to become a cultural union”
Robert Schuman on the Founding of ECC, 1951

4. 5 million

5. Funding Cultural Collaboratively

6. UIM
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7. Why is Europeana important?
Impact, Impact, Impact….
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Europeana supports economic growth
Europeana connects Europe
Europeana makes Europe’s culture available to everyone

8. Europeana supports economic growth:
Creative Industries in Europe are
growing fast (estimated 7% per annum)
and they need fuel.
Europeana provides that.
To date 770 businesses, entrepreneurs,
educational & cultural organisations are
re-using our data in websites, apps and
games.

9. Impact 1:
Europeana Supports Economic Growth
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11. Europeana connects Europe:
open, democratised access to
culture helps all communities across
Europe to understand the past and
to appreciate cross-cultural
differences.

12. Impact 2:
Europeana Connects Europe
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13. Europeana makes Europe’s culture
available for everyone:
29 million records under a Creative
Commons Zero public domain
dedication (CC0) means Europe’s
heritage becomes available for reuse for everyone, young and old

14. Impact 3: Europeana makes
Europe’s Culture available for
everyone
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15. Supply/Distribution chain
Content
Providers
Aggregators
Distributors
Users
Need a similar scalable setup on the distribution side.
- Accessing communities of use or networks: Schoolnet, Wikipedia, & social
networks (pinterest, tumbler, facebook, etc.)
- Creating end-user driven sites: Europeana 1914-1918, 1989, Fashion, Research
- Hosting a lab where developers, media artists and entrepreneurs can create new
things from old clothes - Europeana Labs
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17. Europeana Labs
An innovative space for use by developers,
media artists, entrepreneurs and creatives to
access the content, data, tools & services of
Europeana the Digital Service Infrastructure for
Cultural Heritage.
Launching early 2014 with a couple of pilots

18. Europeana: Serious Adventure Game –
Natural History Puzzle

19. Europeana Education site on WW1

20. The Vision
Library
Museum
Europeana Digital Service
infrastructure
Archive
AV
Collection
Library
Museum
Archive
Museum
Europeana
Fashion

21. Jill.Cousins@kb.nl
Twitter: JilCos
following EuropeanaEU

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Chapter 3

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