4. Vision:
We believe in making cultural heritage openly
accessible in a digital way, to promote the
exchange of ideas and information. This helps
us all to understand our cultural diversity better
and contributes to a thriving knowledge
economy.
5. The Digital Agenda for Europe
‘Europe has probably the world's greatest
cultural heritage. Digitisation brings culture
into people's homes and is a valuable
resource for education, tourism, games,
animation and the whole creative industry.
Investing in digitisation will create new
companies and generate new jobs.’
Europeana is Europe’s ‘flagship digitisation
project’ and ‘one of Europe’s most
amibitious cultural projects, and a
successful one. It is a trusted source for our
collective memory and a representation of
European cultural heritage online.’
Neelie Kroes
European Commission
Vice-President
for the Digital Agenda
6.
7. Aggregated
• 2200+ content
providers
• 142 aggregators
• 26.9 million objects
•Books, newspapers,
journals, letters,
diaries, archival
papers
•Paintings, maps,
drawings,
photographs
•Music, spoken word,
radio broadcasts
•Film, newsreels,
television
•Curated exhibitions
9. Strategic Plan 2011-2015
Engage – We cultivate new ways
for people to participate in their
cultural heritage
Aggregate – We are building the open,
trusted source for European cultural content
Facilitate – We support the cultural
heritage sector through knowledge
transfer, innovation and advocacy
Distribute – We make heritage available to
people wherever they are, whenever they
want it
10. Executive committee
• Currently 8 members
Board of participants
• 20 organisations plus
6 elected Network Officers
Europeana Network
• 532 members elect
the 6 Network Officers
Europeana Office
• 40+ members of staff based in
The Hague and the UK
Over a thousand people working on Europeana-related
projects, activities and Task Forces across Europe
Europeana Structure
26. Who submits data to Europeana?
Domain Aggregators National initiatives
Audiovisual
collections
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
e.g. Musées
Lausannois
e.g.
Culture
Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The
European
Library
e.g. APEX
e.g. EUScreen,
European Film
Gateway
e.g. Judaica Europeana,
Europeana Fashion
31. Europeana 1914-1918 – From concept to project
2008 - Oxford University & JISC
launch the Great War Archive
2010-2011 – Europeana, DNB &
Oxford University launch Erster
Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten
2012-2014 – Europeana launch
a series of initiatives across
Europe
39. Press launch in Berlin
- A3 Posters
- Folder
- Postcard
PR-Campaign
Europeana 1914-1918 in Germany
40.
41.
42.
43. New Europeana Crowdsourcing campaign 2013-2014
Europeana 1989
Will run in the following countries:
June 2013: Poland
August 2013:
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
October/ November 2013:
Germany and Czech Republic
May/June 2014: Hungary
46. How do users access Europeana
content?
Europeana aims to provide content in the users’ workflow –
where they want it, when they want it.
Europeana portal
• e.g. via searches, virtual exhibitions, featured items
Project portals/exhibitions
• e.g. BHL- Poisonous Nature, Europeana Fashion
Websites and apps using Europeana API – devised at
hackathons or independently
Social media/blogs
• e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Retronaut
51. Give you access to the material we have to create a website -
API
Use your contacts to get more material –
museums/archives/libraries?
Community Collection? Maybe from museums? Via Antique
Road Show?
Create Exhibition on Battle of Waterloo see
Work on mobile app or game via a Hackathon
Connect into House of European History
52. Give you access to the material we have to create a website -
API
61. History of Europeana
April 2005: Jacques Chirac wrote to European Commission President
José Manuel Barroso, recommending the creation of a virtual
European library
EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate had been supporting
European digital information exchange projects for 15 years
September 2005: publication of EC’s i2010 strategy on digital libraries
2007: European Digital Library Network – EDLnet – began building
Europeana, funded under i2010
November 2008: Europeana prototype launched
Summer 2010: prototype became an operational service funded under
the EC’s CIP ICT-PSP (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
Programme)
January 2011: New Renaissance Report published - endorses
Europeana as ‘the reference point for European culture online’
September 2012: Europeana metadata released under CC0 waiver,
making it freely available for re-use
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A quote from the Duke of Wellington, June 18, 1815, can be found on the inside of the lid. It reads, "Napolean did not manoeuvre at all. He just moved forward in the old style, in columns, and was driven off in the old style".
Europeana was born as a political vision to create social and economical capital
This has led to the creation of a strong infrastructure for aggregation of cultural objects and a variety of ways to access this material online.
The Strategic Plan 2011-2015 separates activity into four tracks. The Strategic Plan isn’t just a high level document, it translates to the work we carry out on a day-to-day basis and to each individual’s responsibilities. Aggregate: source content (increasing diversity); expand the network; improve data quality Facilitate: Strengthen advocacy (e.g. defend public domain); share knowledge among heritage professionals; foster research & development Distribute: Develop partnerships to deliver content in new ways, upgrade portal, put content in users’ workflow Engage: Enhance users’ experience; extend social media presence; broker new user/curator relationships (e.g. Europeana 1914-1918 UGC)
Image is the dominant type Text is increasing Video and sound are still more challenging and costly to digitise with copyright and production issues Europeana actively tries to increase the video and audio content, which is also reflected in its content strategy.
Les Miserables: Victor Hugo’s handwritten manuscripts: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5372912AF66AB529E188218BC1F747E75EB1A18F.html BnF, public domain Matisse ‘53 in the form of a double helix’ http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200104/F8D60AB9136C8A59B59DF1CFEC278A6CABA8B0C6.html The Wellcome Library (CC-BY-NC-ND) ‘ söprűtánc ’ – Hungarian traditional dance http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08901/E1A7B01BE4AED87FD239672F4F3941F52262D6B2.html Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Musicology, public domain ‘ Neurologico reggae’ Music album http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08901/ADC241BCBF8470988DBA6EEAFCF13F14D88E5534.html DISMARC – EuropeanaConnect Paid Access ‘ Castle of Kavala’ 3D exploration of a Greek castle http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020703/05607B24D15BD516EE2B765F74CDA39C7427F7FB.html Cultural and Educational Technology Institute - Research Centre Athen CARARE CC-BY-NC-ND
So how do we intend to support Creative Industries
At a working level, we operate in a network of aggregators. We can’t work directly with 2,200 organisations, so we rely on aggregators to collect data, harmonise it, and deliver to Europeana. Aggregators are important because they share a background with the organisations whose content they bring together, so there is close understanding. The aggregation model enables Europeana to collect huge quantities of data from thousands of providers, through only a handful of channels.
Link to the books and monographs on world war one – all languages – taking the interested user deeper Peak in traffic generated by Press release on Hitler and Bible – more eyeballs – 20,000 per day – returning user remaining high
Poisonous nature exhibition includes content from Europeana, http://poisonousnature.biodiversityexhibition.com/ Europeana Fashion portal will go live in May 2013
Sneak preview of the new portal out this week
Developing our API for distribution
Practical examples of our support for innovation Art Space promotes access to art in everyday situations i.e. Europeana collections can be made available in public places such as coffee shops, libraries, schools, and hotels. Making use of LCD displays and an online Collection Management System allows a ‘Virtual art leasing’ service and a highly personalised curation.
Among them I could mention the Fundaccion Cristobal Balenciaga in Spain, the Fendi Heritage foundation and GucciMuseo in Italy. Armani foundation also contacted us for a meeting two days ago. The surprising thing for us is that these private institutions, which are multinational brands, have been always very conservative about sharing material from their archives, which have been always considered an asset to protect rather than open and share. And these institutions have been always very reluctant in joining "multibrand" initiatives. ...It seems that the open and collaborative nature of Europeana is slowly changing their mind-set. Another clear example of this change is the enthusiasm showed by Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in joining our new Tumblr blog (http://bit.ly/XGV9DW), for which the director of the museum is curating a special edition on Ferragamo iconic shoes that is going online during this week. And just few days ago also the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto asked us to collaborate on our Tumblr blog. The relation and the possible creative synergies between Fashion industry and the GLAMs community will be also the main theme of our forthcoming international conference in Florence, in which we will have keynotes speakers coming from major public museums in Europe (like V&A and MoMu), top fashion brands like Pucci, Ferragamo and Balenciaga, fashion magazines like Vogue and academic institutions like the FIT of New York, the London College of Fashion, Polimoda in Florence and the Centre for Fashion Studies of the University of Stockholm. You could find more info on the programme here: http://www.europeanafashion.eu/conference/ And finally, another important achievement we're trying to reach is related to the engagement of users. In fact, on the 22nd of March, hosted by our partner Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, we're going to organise our first GLAM-WIKI event in cooperation with Wikimedia Sweden and Europeana Awareness. This will be the first public event of a series of five events we're going to organise with Wikimedia in the Netherlands, UK, France and Italy, with the goal of engaging users with fashion heritage content on-line.
Link to the books and monographs on world war one – all languages – taking the interested user deeper Peak in traffic generated by Press release on Hitler and Bible – more eyeballs – 20,000 per day – returning user remaining high
Practical examples of our support for innovation We are particularly interested in developing apps and other services around cultural tourism and education This one is a geolocation app – you take a picture of a site or monument today, and using the geolocation co-ordinates, it can bring up earlier pictures held in the Euroepana database
The i2010 strategy announced the intention to promote and support the creation of a European digital library which aims to foster growth in the information society and media industries. EDLnet was aimed at building a prototype of a cross-border, cross-domain, user-centred service. It was funded by the European Commission under its eContentplus programme, one of the research and development funding streams of i2010. The New Renaissance Report by Comite des Sages - about bringing Europe’s cultural heritage online - said ‘All public domain masterpieces should be brought into Europeana’ and that ‘Public funding for digitisation should be conditional on free accessibility through Europeana’.
T he governance of Europeana ensures integration and collaboration between the cultural heritage domains at the policy and strategy level. That has enabled Europeana to achieve the scale and scope of content realised to date. This list of the Board of Participants includes the chairs and presidents of all the international associactions for cultural heritage, giving Europeana stakeholder engagement at the highest level.