EUROPEANA
Benefits and progress
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What is EUROPEANA ?
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 A common multilingual and digital access point to Europe’s
cultural heritage
 Stimulated and co-ordinated by the European Commission
 Users will be enabled to search different collections in Europe’s
cultural institutions
• in their own language
• through a web portal (without having to visit multiple sites or countries)
• search is free of charge
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Whom is EUROPEANA aimed at?
 Anyone interested in European cultural resources such as literature, history,
arts, music, cinema: books, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, paintings,
sculptures, records, photographs, films, radio, TV, and the like.
End-users: experts and professionals as well as citizens, researchers and
scientists as well as school children, students as well as teachers.
The challenges:
INTEROPERABILITY - INTERDISCIPLINARITY MULTILINGUALITY
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EUROPEANA’s cross-domain
coverage
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Why provide content?
 User‘s experience is enriched by Europeana
 Europeana exposes metadata to search engines
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 Europeana drives traffic to your sites
 Europeana will provide a set of API‘s
 Users expect content to be integrated
 Knowledge transfer
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An Overview of Benefits
• Political Agenda
• Key Partners - Aggregators and Content Providers
• Think Global act Local; Global activities structured and centralised at
local level
• Part of some fast moving developments in portal and technology
• Traffic; targeting end-user
• Visibility of your content and institution
• Network, Projects, Content Council, Thematic Network
• Europeana Shared Services, activities and tools
• Europeana WorkGroups
• Be part of Europeana Future Developments
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Aggregators and Content Providers part of Europeana
Foundation Governance
Benefit no. 1
Executive
Committee
Board of Participants
Up to 6
elected
Council of
Content Providers & Aggregators
Funding & Orientation Group
Linked to Member States Expert Group
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Benefit no. 2
Political Agenda
Stakeholders - Commission consultation Europeana – Next Steps
Helga Trupel, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and
Education - European Parliament Reports “Europeana is a
very important project, because it gives people easy access
to European culture and heritage worldwide.”
The European Parliament Resolution adopted on 5 May 2010:
“Europeana should become one of the main reference
points for education and research purposes and should be
integrated into education systems”
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Benefit no. 3
Glocal - Think Global act Local
Thematic aggregators
Cross-domain aggregators
Museums
Archives
Libraries
Audiovisual
collections
Single
Aggregators
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Benefit no. 4
Data Distribution Channels
End-user
Aggregators:
Projects & Organizations
Europeana
Content Providers
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Benefit no. 5
Moving forwards
“However, I find it alarming that only 5% of all
digitized books in the EU are available on
Europeana.
I also note that almost half of Europeana's digitized
works have come from one country alone, while all
other Member States continue to under-perform
dramatically.”
Viviane Reding,
EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media,
28 August 2009
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September 2009
4.6 mill objects
5 countries contributing more than 1 %
France
16%
Germany
5%
47%
Netherlands
UK
16%
8%
8%
Sweden
Others
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September 2009
9 Data Providers contributing more than 1%
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September 2010
13.1 Mill objects
14 countries contributing more than 1%
Belgium
2%
Poland
3%
Italy
Greece Finland
1% 1%
2%
Slovenia
1%
Less than 1%
France
2%
21%
Europe
3%
Norway
6%
Ireland
7% UK
Germany
13%
8%
Netherlands
9%
Spain
10%
Sweden
11%
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September 2010,
More than 20 providers contributing more than 1%
Culture.fr/collections
Hispana
Swedish Open Cultural Heritage
Deutsche Fotothek
1%
1%
1%
2%
2%
3%
The European Library
1% 1%
Irish Manuscripts Commission
1%
Bibliothèque nationale de France
1%
10%
CultureGrid
13%
ABM-utvikling
9%
9%
7%
5%
5%
8%
Nationaal Archief
Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych
Bayrische Staatsbibliothek
Scran
5%
8%
6%
Kansalliskirjasto
Riksarkivet
Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent
Hellenic Aggregator
Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig
Bernstein Project
Erfgoed Brabant
Others
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Aggregation Landscape
Benefit no. 6
Aggregators Map overlay
Legend:
Cross domain aggregators
Vertical aggregators
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Supported Projects
16 projects 2008 –2010
Benefit no. 7
Rhine
release
Danube release
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
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Europeana Version 1.0
EuropeanaConnect
EDLocal - Making local and regional content accessible through the European Digital
EFG - European Film Gateway
ATHENA - Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe
PrestoPRIME
APENET - European Archives Gateway
EuropeanaTravel
BHL-Europe - Biodiversity Heritage Library Online
MIMO - Musical Instruments Museums Online
EUscreen - Exploring Europe’s Television Heritage in Changing Contexts
Europeana Regia : a digital collaborative library of royal manuscripts in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Judaica Europeana
CARARE - Connecting ARchaeology and ARchitecture in Europeana
ASSETS - Advanced Search Services and Enhanced Technological Solutions for Europeana
HOPE - Heritage of the People's Europe
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13,1 million objects – Content types
Europeana.eu Content Types
Videos
1%
Sounds
1%
Texts
38%
Images
60%
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Benefit no. 8
User Statistics www.europeana.eu:
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Increased traffic and visibility to your content-site
Benefit no. 9
Targeting End-users
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Benefit no. 10
Improved portal developments
Improved search
Related items, autosuggestion,
ranking
Browse
Timeline
Search Demo’s
Virtual Exhibition
Applications
Mobile
Annotations
Metadata Improvement
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Benefit no. 11
Europeana ADDITIONAL SERVICES
ACTIVITIES
• Annual free access Conference
• Workshops discovering and exploring important topics which are
challenging the cultural sector
• Presentations at Conferences to support our Partners
TOOLS
• Data Aggregator and Data Provider Agreements
• Aggregator Handbook
• Content Checker
• ThoughtLabs
• Open Source Code and more to be shared
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Europeana shared Groups
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Thematic Network
Council of Content Providers and
Aggregators
Project Coordinators Group
IPR Group
Communications Group
Technical Group
Europeana Group homepage
www.group.europeana.eu/
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Europeana CONTACTS
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Partner Network: annette.friberg@kb.nl
Ingestion:
Susanna.Summa@kb.nl
Communications
Jon.Purday@kb.nl
Technical:
Jan.Molendijk@kb.nl
EUROPEANA web site: http://www.europeana.eu
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Future Developments
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Country contributions
Tackle IPR and copyright issues
Increase quality in data adapt to Europeana’s Data Model
Continuosly develop the portal to engage users
Multilingualism
Funding & revenue models
That it remains “hot news”
Join private and public partners
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EUROPEANA
belongs to
all of us (Europeans)
created by all of us and
to be explored by all of us
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