Presentaiton at Panel "Interoperable Platforms and CLIR Initiatives: A Global Perspective" at the 2019 IIIF Conference Göttingen, Thursday 26 June 2019 https://iiif.io/event/2019/goettingen/program/30/

1. IIIF and the Europeana
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Antoine Isaac
Panel Interoperable Platforms and CLIR Initiatives: A Global
Perspective
2019 IIIF Conference
Göttingen, Thursday 26 June 2019

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Who is Europeana?
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● A non-profit foundation
● A community of 2400 experts in digital heritage – the
Europeana Network
● A shared mission: improve access to Europe's digital
cultural heritage
We transform the world with culture. We build on Europe’s
rich cultural heritage and make it easier for people to use
for work, learning or pleasure. Our work contributes to an
open, knowledgeable and creative society.

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What is Europeana?
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● An Open Data platform:
● Europeana APIs - https://pro.europeana.eu/resources/apis
● Europeana Collections portal - http://europeana.eu
● Providing access to 3500 museums, libraries and archives

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Data flows in Europeana
Data providers: cultural institutions that provide metadata and links to
digitized content
Aggregators: gather data from a specific
country or domain (music, fashion,
archaeology)
Digitized content is served on
partners’ websites, except for
specific projects (for example
newspapers)

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Why supporting IIIF?
Europeana Essentials
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● IIIF can help us fulfill our mission
We transform the world with culture. We build on Europe’s rich cultural
heritage and make it easier for people to use for work, learning or
pleasure. Our work contributes to an open, knowledgeable and
creative society.
● For our users
● And for our partners!

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IIIF Access in Europeana
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St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 1000 : Iohannes de Utino, Compilatio nova super tota biblia
e-codices, University of Fribourg - Universitas Friburgensis
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http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200211/en_list_one_vad_1000.html

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Growing adoption within Europeana
providers
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● University Heidelberg
● University College Dublin
● Swedish National Museum
● eCodices
● Biodiversity Heritage Library
● Manuscriptorium
● National Library of Wales
● National Library of Scotland
● Instituto Centrale per Catalogo Unico (ICCU)
● BnF (Gallica)
● Bodleian
● Austrian National Library
● Europeana Newspapers and its providers

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Further distributing access to IIIF
resources
Europeana Essentials
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What else does IIIF bring to
Europeana?
Europeana Essentials
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● IIIF aligns well with the (Linked Data) standards we use
and promote, such as rightsstatements.org and our
Europeana Data Model
● IIIF fits very well the open access approach
● Content owners keep serving their content, which enables
better control, provenance, attribution & visibility
Good for content providers & re-users (incl. Europeana!)

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IIIF is also a community!
Europeana Essentials
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● Very active
● Open
● That shares interests with us
● That does not discuss only image services:
● Annotation
● Discovery,
● Specific content (newspapers)
● Linked Data
…

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The Europeana Newspapers case
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● 18 million pages digitized, 10 million pages OCRed
● Hosted by Europeana on a IIIF server
Berliner Börsenzeitung
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin -
Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Public Domain
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/r
ecord/9200355/BibliographicResour
ce_3000119062998.html

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The Europeana Newspapers case
Europeana Essentials
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● Re-uses modelling recipes discussed in the IIIF
Newspapers Community Group

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Community – IIIF side
Europeana Essentials
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We want to be an active member of the IIIF community -
getting and giving back
● Founding member & member of IIIF Executive Committee
● Participating/presenting/co-organizing at IIIF events
● Involved in Newspapers, Discovery, Technical Review
Committee

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Community – Europeana side
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Goal: promote adoption of IIIF in our Network
● Cf Recommendations of Europeana Task Force “Preparing
Europeana for IIIF involvement”
● Publications: case studies, blogs, technical papers…
Check some of that on the pages of the EuropeanaTech community:
https://pro.europeana.eu/europeana-tech

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Conclusions
Europeana Essentials
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Why has Europeana invested in IIIF?
● IIIF allows us to better fulfill our mission
What is our investment?
● Ingestion and sharing of links to IIIF resources
● Viewing IIIF content
● Participation in IIIF community
● Promote IIIF adoption in our Network
● R&D for metadata aggregation (later today!)

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Name of image | Creator
Providing organization|
Country, licence
Name of image | Creator
Providing organization| Country, licence
antoine.isaac@europeana.eu
@antoine_isaac