Presentation at Innovation4Culture, ASSETS Final Workshop, Luxembourg, 8 March 2012

1. The Austrian National Library
and Europeana
Max Kaiser
Head R&D, Austrian National Library
CLARIN-AT - DARIAH-AT
Innovation4Culture
ASSETS Final Workshop
Luxembourg, 8 March 2012
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2. www.slideshare.net/maxkaiser
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3. al Libra r y
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4. One of the world‘s
most significant
collections
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7. → Picture Archives and Graphics Department
→ Map Department
→ Music Department
→ Literary Archives
→ Papyri Department
→ Department of Planned Languages
→ Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
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11. → State Hall
→ Papyrus Museum
→ Globe Museum
→ Esperanto Museum
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12. Papyrus Depart
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18. 1 ng rooms
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19. ays/week
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20. libr ary as soc ial space
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24. Access for everyone
from anywhere
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25. pagexss
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historica
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32. s e ve r al 100k
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images

33. 140k
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portraits

34. sc holars…
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lib rarians…

36. 100k* posters
* by end 2012
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papyri…

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41. Austrian Books Online
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline/
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42. Cooperation with Google
Largest Austrian
Public Private Partnership
in the cultural sector
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43. Digitisation
of the entire historical
book holdings of the
Austrian National Library
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44. Entire historical
book holdings
16th –19th century
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45. 600,000 volumes
200 Mio pages
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46. Google Books
Digital Library
Austrian National Library
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47. http://booksearch.blogspot.com/
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48. Austrian National Library
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49. prehistor
ic ages …
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50. 2005:
ONB joining
The European Library
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51. April
2005
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52. EDLproject
Sept. 2006
– Feb. 2008
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55. EDLnet
July 2007
– March 2009
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56. 20th November 2008

57. ONB project partner of:
→ Europeana v1.0, Feb. 2009 – Sept. 2011
→ Europeana v2.0, Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2014
→ Europeana Awareness, Jan. 2012 – Dec. 2014
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58. ctober 2011
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May
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61. EuropeanaTech Conference
Vienna, 3–5 October 2011
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64. ONB in Content projects:
→ Europeana Travel
→May 2009 – April 2011
→ Europeana Collections 1914–1918
→May 2011 – April 2014
→ European Newspapers
→Feb. 2012 – Jan. 2015
→ Digital Manuscripts to Europeana
→Feb. 2012 – Jan. 2015
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66. Strategic Tracks
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68. Aggregate
→Build the open trusted source for European
cultural heritage content
Facilitate
→Support the cultural heritage sector through
knowledge transfer, innovation and advocacy
Distribute
→Make their heritage available to users wherever
they are, whenever they want it
Engage
→Cultivate new ways for users to participate in
their cultural heritage
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69. Aggregate
Build the open trusted source for European
cultural heritage content
→ Source content that represents the diversity of
our cultural heritage
→ Extend the network of aggregators
→ Improve the quality of the metadata
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70. Aggregate
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cortesdecima/3931282304/

71. ONB Content in Europeana
260.000 images
5.100 texts
200 audio objects
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82. First step:
→Interoperability
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83. API, LOD
Portal Users
Austrian National Library
Content
Aggregator: (Images, Posters,
The European Library Books, Newspapers etc.)

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85. Second step:
→Open Data
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86. http://www.libereurope.eu/sites/default
/files/CENL%20adopts%20CC0.pdf
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87. Layer #4: Metadaten (Deskriptive Information über das
Ebene#4: Metadata (descriptive information of object) Objekt)
Layer #3: Previews (lower quality versions of #2 in)
Layer #2: Digital Objects (digital reproductions of #1)
Layer #1: Physical Objects (books, paintings, movies, …)
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88. Data Exchange Agreement
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89. From 1 July 2012
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/support-for-open-data
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92. Facilitate
Support the cultural heritage sector
through knowledge transfer, innovation
and advocacy
→ Share knowledge among cultural heritage
professionals
→ Foster research and development of
digital heritage applications
→ Strengthen Europeana‘s advocacy role
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94. Example: Public Domain
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95. „Cultural institutions should make
public domain material digitised with
public funding as widely available as
possible for access and re-use.“ (p. 5)
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/refgroup/final_report_cds.pdf
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96. „a) ensuring that material in the public
domain remains in the public domain
after digitisation,
b) promoting the widest possible access
to digitised public domain material
as well as the widest possible re-use
of the material for non-commercial
and commercial purposes“
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/recommendation
/recom28nov_all_versions/de.pdf
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98. Public Domain Mark
„This work has been identified as being
free of known restrictions under copyright
law, including all related and neighbouring
rights.
You can copy, modify, distribute and
perform the work, even for commercial
purposes, all without asking permission.“
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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99. http://www.version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-
project/european-cultural-commons
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100. Research & Development
→ Europeana Research Network
→ „Europeana v2.0“
→WP7 „Innovation“
→Led by ONB
→ FLOSS Inventory: Open Source Software
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103. Distribute
Make their heritage available to users wherever
they are, whenever they want it
→ Upgrade the Europeana Portal
→ Put content in the users‘ workflow
→ Develop partnerships to deliver content in new
ways
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104. Europeana API Services
→ Web Services: search and display of Europeana
collections in other websites and applications
→ Search API: Application Programming Interface
→ Build applications for customised view of Europeana
content
→ E.g. iPhone-Apps, Mash-Ups
→ Search Widget
→ Ready-made Europeana search box
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106. Linked Open Data
→ http://data.europeana.eu
→ „Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot“
→ Metadata in structured, machine readable form
(RDF)
→ Converted into Europeana Data Model (EDM)
→ 2,4 Mio. data sets
→ CC0 license
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109. Engage
Cultivate new ways for users to
participate in their cultural heritage
→ Enhance the users‘ experience
→ Extend our social media programmes and
user of web 2.0 tools
→ Broker a new relationship between
curators, content and users
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110. User Generated Content
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113. Collection days
in Austria in 2013?
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115. EuropeanaTech Hackathon
Vienna, 3–4 October 2011
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119. Hackathons Trends
→ Smartphones & Tablets
→ „Social“
→ Content Curation
→ Gaming
→ Semantic Linking
→ Visualisation
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120. Europeana and the
Digital Humanities
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121. → Europeana Portal as platform
→Aggregated information about European
cultural heritage
→ Europeana API
→Integration of Europeana content in
Research infrastructures
→ Linked Open Data
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122. DM2E Project
→ February 2012 – January 2015
→ „Factory“ for production of EDM data
→ Development of services for Digital
Humanities based on Muruca Digital
Library Framework
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123. Summary
Europeana for the Austrian National Library:
→ Channel to connect content and users
→ Advocate for open culture
→ Facilitator for change and innovation
→ Partner for technological development
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124. Thank you!
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