Building Europeana

MICHAEL, RIBA, London23 May 2008

What is Europeana?

•Quick Background

•Potted History

•EDL Foundation

•EDLnet

•What has happened

•What will happen

•What must happen

“A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. Such an access point would increase its visibility and underline common features. The access point should build on existing initiatives such as The European Library (TEL), in which Europe’s libraries already cooperate. It should where possible closely associate private holders of rights in cultural material and all interested stakeholders. A strong commitment by the Member states and cultural institutions to arrive at such an access point should be encouraged.”

European Union Communiqué August 2006

EU Vision for a European digital library

End 2006 full collaboration among EU national libraries.

From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to archives and museums.

2,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts, and other cultural works accessible by 2008

At least 6,000,000 works by 2010

With these goals

A portal or Internet site providing access to Europe’s cultural heritage

EDL FoundationA legal entity to sustain and develop the Europeana and to provide a framework for funding and future governance

European Regional Branch of Intl. Council on Archives – EURBICA

Intl Fed. of Television Archives – FIAT

European Museums Forum - EMF

Association Cinémathèques Européennes – ACE

Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – LIBER

Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe – MICHAEL

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands - KB

International Council of Museums Europe – ICOM Europe

Consortium of European Research Libraries – CERL

Institut National de ‘l’Audiovisuel - INA

Bundesarchiv

Bibliothèque nationale de France

International Association of Sound & Audiovisual Archives – IASA

Ministries of Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden

Invitation to the Ministries from Horst Forster to support – Europeana: the European digital library

EDLnet – Europeana: the European digital library

Thematic Network Partner Group across Museums, Archives, Audio-Visual Archives & Libraries started July 07

•Bringing together cultural institutions across Europe•Creatng a user defined prototype by November 08•Making recommendations for a sustainable service

ProcessArchivesAustrian State ArchivesEuropean ArchiveEuropean Branch of ICA Direcção-Geral de ArquivosLandesarchiv Baden-WürttembergNational Archives of FinlandFederal Archives of GermanyNational Archives of SwedenNational Archives of the NetherlandsNational Archive of FranceInternational Institute for Social HistoryAudio-visual collectionsInternational Association of Sound and Audiovisual ArchivesAssociation des Cinémathèques EuropéennesInternational Federation of Television ArchivesEuropean Broadcasting UnionInstitut national de l'audiovisuelCross-domain associationsMICHAEL AISBLMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council, UKBibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-WürttembergABM-utvikling, NorwayRUNAS, the Danish Archives, Libraries and MuseumsArbeitsgruppe europäischen Angelegenheiten Bibliotheken,Archive MuseenABM-Centrum, SwedenInstitute for Cultural Memory, RomaniaHeritage MaltaIstituto per i beni artistici, culturali e naturali – Regione Emilia-Romagna Erfgoed NederlandLibrariesDanish State Library AarhusCatholic University of LeuvenEuropean Bureau of Library, Information & Documentation AssociationsLigues des bibliothèques européenes de recherchesConsortium of European Research LibrariesState and University Library GöttingenConference of European National LibrariansCervantes LibraryBiblioteca de CatalunyaNational Authorities on Public Libraries in EuropeMuseumsIstituto e Museo di Storia della ScienzaRijksmuseumInstitute for Museum Research, BerlinInternational Council of Museums EuropeNatural History MuseumNetwork of European Museum OrganisationsEuropean Museums ForumMuseum of London GroupScience MuseumProject ContributorsBernsteinCITERDELOSDIGMAPDISMARCDRIVEREPsIplusVideo ActiveMultiMatchCross Czech a.s.TrebleCLEFKnowledge Management in Museums ProjectResearch institutionsArts and Humanities Data ServiceDigitaal Erfgoed NederlandDigital Lifecycle Management ForumEthnological Museum, Berlin, Music ArchiveEuropean Commission on Preservation & AccessGerman Social Science Infrastructure SciencesHeriot-Watt UniversityInstitute of Communication and Computer Systems - National Technical University of AthensInstitute of Mathematics and InformaticsKennisland / KnowledgelandTOPP Consulting GmbHTrans-European Research and Education Networking AssociationVrije Universiteit AmsterdamNational representativesAustria, National Library Belgium, Royal Library Bulgaria, New Bulgarian University LibraryCyprus, Ministry of Education and Culture Czech Republic, National Library Denmark, Royal LibraryEstonia, National Library Finland, National LibraryFrance, National Library Germany, National Library Greece, Veria Central Public LibraryHungary, National LibraryIceland, National and University Library Ireland, University College CorkLatvia, National LibraryLiechtenstein, National LibraryLithuania, Vilnius UniversityLuxembourg, National Library Norway, National Library Poland, National Library Portugal, National LibrarySlovakia, National LibrarySlovenia, National Library Spain, National Library Sweden, National LibraryUnited Kingdom, British Libraryall domains

•Brings together the digitised & digital items from Museums, Archives, Audio Visual Collections & Libraries across Europe

•Solves the issues of interoperability in data

•Works on usability – finding paths, presenting items, appealing

•Finds sustainable governance & organisational models

•Builds on previous initiatives / BRICKS, ANNOculture, Qviz, Michael

•3 major Workpackages•Network of nearly 100 cultural institutions

What has happened since July 2007

• Requirements gathered from all 4 domains

• Pulled together in the Maquette

What has happened since July 2007

• Requirements gathered from all 4 domains

• Pulled together in the Maquette

• Professional & end user feedback

What has happened

• Requirements gathered from all 4 domains• Pulled together in the Maquette• Professional & end user feedback• Functional specification and new object model• Collection of your data - in progress• Build of Prototype1 – due June 08 –• First Concept of the Business Model

What will happen

• Users expect the Interoperable Europeana -EDLnet Conference June 23 and 24

• Launch in November 2008 a fully working prototype representing the material of the 4 domains in sufficient quantities to work.

• More network partners particularly from museums, film and sound

• Validate the concept for the Business Model

• Create a roadmap

• Secure funding to match next projects

• 4 new projects starting now

New Projects – adding content to Europeana

1. Athena – Museums

2. EFG – Film Gateway – starts June 08

3. EPA - Archives

4. EDLocal – small, medium regional archives, libraries and museums starts June 08

Matched by funding from:

OCW, Dutch Education, Culture & Science Ministry

What must happen

• New Project Proposals accepted• Sustainable Long Term Funding found and made part

of Council Recommendations

French Presidency and use of MSEG

New Project Proposals

• Europeana v1.0 – operational service• EuropeanaConnect – best practice network• EuropeanaTravel – libraries digitisation targeted project• EuropeanaFilm• Diamond• BHLEurope• EUScreen• ROSE

Matched by funding from ?

Need about 1 million euros for next 3 years.

Sustainability

• Costs – minimum 6-8 million per year to run operational service– Does not include digitisation– Does not include R&D

• Revenue streams:– Advertising– Sponsorship– Subscriptions– Brokerage fees– Affiliate fees

• Structural Funding– Agency such as CERN, ESA

The Roadmap

June 08 - 5 eContentPlus Proposals:

Europeana v1.0, Europeana BPN & Europeana Targeted Projects x3

-Europeana Plenary Conference, KB, 23/24th

-Start of EDLocal and EFG

Sept 08 – Secure next round of matching funds

- complete Business model for Europeana

- complete Road Map for Europeana

-start EPA, Athena, ROSE,

Nov 08 - Launch of Europeana prototype by Vivien Reding

- Recommendations for next steps – the Road Map

-Conference in Brussels on 21 November

Jan 09 – start Europeana v1.0 and EuropeanaConnect

Dec 09 – longer term funding structure in place ?Agency?

June 2010 - Launch of Europeana v1.0 – the operational service

Thank You