Europeana is the European Union's flagship digital library portal that makes Europe's cultural heritage accessible online. It aggregates existing digital cultural content from various institutions and presents it with semantic tagging in a new context. The project is co-funded by the European Commission to increase access to cultural works still in copyright through licensing or that are in the public domain. It aims to provide more exposure for cultural works while respecting the intellectual property rights of owners.

1. EU-funded project Europeana -
Europe’s flagship web portal, making
Europe’s cultural heritage accessible to
the world.
co-funded by the European Commission

2. Overview…
• What are EU projects? • background to EU funding
• What is Europeana? • cultural heritage
• Which content is Europeana • reason for Europeana – Google-
seeking to present? action
• What is the IPR position?
• What are the benefits of allowing
access to my content?
• Is there funding?
• What is the DISMARC platform?

3. Overview…
• What are EU projects? • the portal which delivers access to
• What is Europeana? Europe’s cultural and scientific
• Which content is Europeana heritage
seeking to present? • delivers services - licensing of
• What is the IPR position? copyright materials, e-books-on-
demand, multilingual searching,
• What are the benefits of allowing hand-held devices
access to my content?
• presents existing digital content in
• Is there funding? new context – i.e. semantic
• What is the DISMARC platform? tagging
• EuropeanaConnect - relationship
to Europeana - focus on the Audio
Aggregation WP

4. Overview…
• What are EU projects? • cultural heritage material
• What is Europeana? • European-owned
• What kind of audio content is • thematic approach
Europeana seeking to present? • music audio, music-related audio
• What is the IPR position? and non-audio artifacts
• What are the benefits of allowing
access to my content?
• Is there funding?
• What is the DISMARC platform?

5. Overview…
• What are EU projects? • unique rights for audio
• What is Europeana? • content should be either in public
• Which content is Europeana domain or owner must be
seeking to present? authorised to offer access
• What is the IPR position? • self-determined Creative
• What are the benefits of allowing Commons license
access to my content? http://creativecommons.org/
• Is there funding? • ownership remains with original
• What is the DISMARC platform? owner
• Europeana will offer online tools
and licenses

6. Overview…
• What are EU projects? • increased exposure of content,
• What is Europeana? enhanced networking possibilities,
• Which content is Europeana increased national & international
seeking to present? funding opportunities
• What is the IPR position?
• What are the benefits for an
archive in allowing access to
content?
• Is there funding?
• What is the DISMARC platform?

7. Overview…
• What are EU projects? • NO!
• What is Europeana? • no funds available to cover costs,
• Which content is Europeana possible financial assistance to
seeking to present? cover preparatory work
• What is the IPR position? • other current EU digitisation
• What are the benefits of allowing initiatives -
access to my content? http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/r
elated-projects.php
• Is there funding?
• What is the DISMARC platform?

8. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • previous EU-funded project,
• Which content is Europeana aggregating catalogue data
seeking to present? • successfully survived end of
• IPR issues? funding
• What are the benefits of allowing • music audio provider for
access to my content? Europeana via EuropeanaConnect
• Is there funding? • gatekeeper for music audio intake
• What is the Audio Aggregation to Europeana
Platform platform?

9. Contact details…
EuropeanaConnect co-ordination: audio@europeana.connect.eu
Technical issues - Gerda Koch - email: kochg@ait.co.at
Administration issues - Martin Gordon - email: martin.gordon@rbb-
online.de
LINKS:
www.europeana.eu - home of the European digital library
www.europeanaconnect.eu - EuropeanaConnect project website
www.dismarc.eu - aggregation/content management platform
www.dismarc.org/info - info about the aggregation platform
Europeana Schematic Elements 3.2 – latest Europeana dataset

10. www.europeana.eu
co-funded by the European Commission