1. The National library of
Luxembourg and Europeana
Patrick Peiffer
Bibliothèque nationale Luxembourg
30/01/2013 CIP ICT PSP Workshop – Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
2. Plan
Intro
What does the National Library do in Europeana?
Why do we participate in European projects?
3. Intro
Job 1: Manager of the largest digital scientific library
in Luxembourg, hosted an managed by national
library: www.findit.lu , http://blog.findit.lu/start
• Free public access to 50k eJournals, 80k eBooks
and 350 reference platforms
Job 2: Legal issues in digitisation and open access
publishing: www.eluxemburgensia.lu
• This is the link to Europeana
4. Europeana – the platform for digitised
cultural works
www.europeana.eu
Thousands of members: museums, archives and
libraries
Repertoire of 20+ million digitised works online
Key player for standard setting and legal issues
Very large and active Open Data platform
5. What did we do with Europeana?
Started as passive participants in 2006
Active role 2009-2011: Leader of IPR Team
Established licensing framework for Europeana
• Public Domain policy: Charter/ Mark/ Calculator
• Plenty of workshops and stakeholder consultation
• Open data policy, live since 2011
• 2009-2011 results:
http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-and-resources.p
7. What do we do with Europeana?
Current project: “Europeana Awareness” 2012-2014
Member of same IPR team
Tasks:
Continuous refinement and of Europeana Licensing
Framework, Guidelines and FAQ:
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/licensing
Our focus is on “20th century black hole”:
Pragmatic cross border solutions for rights clearance
8.
9. Why do we participate in Europeana?
Long term strategy
Member of innovation network
• Important to “land” results in own organisation
• We “import” knowledge, add value and “export” it
Exposure to many different stakeholders
• Informs own implementations and national networks
• www.eluxemburgensia.lu (note: new version in mid-February)
10. Next steps
Building on “Extended Collective Licensing” report 2011:
http://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/guibault/ECL_Europeana_final_report092011.pdf
In-depth research on cross border solutions for rights
clearance:
2013-2014: Europeana is financing a legal expert
2014: Publication of final report written by IvIR (Institute
for Information Law), Amsterdam
11. Thanks for your attention
patrick.peiffer@bnl.etat.lu
@patrickpeiffer
12. Links
Europeana Licensing Framework, Guidelines and FAQ
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/licensing
Public Domain Calculator
www.outofcopyright.eu
Europeana Connect, coordinated by the Austrian national library, Results of WP lead by National library Luxembourg
http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-and-resources.php?page=8
Europeana Awareness, coordinated by Europeana Foundation, current project of National library Luxembourg
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-awareness
“This Painting is not available in your country”, Paul Mutant, CC BY-NC-ND
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmutant/4992725876/
2011 Cross-border extended collective licensing: a solution to online dissemination of Europe’s cultural heritage?, J. Axhamn
and L.Guibault, http://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/guibault/ECL_Europeana_final_report092011.pdf
National library of Luxembourg digitisation website
http://www.eluxemburgensia.lu
National library of Luxembourg digital scientific library
http://findit.lu http://blog.findit.lu/start