Jill Cousins

June 18, 2012, Madrid

Europeana: a shared resource

Agenda

•Policy•Strategy 2011-2015

•Aggregate•Distribute•Facilitate•Engage

•Next Steps•Shared resource for all

Like truth, culture & creativity are enduring

Nelson Mandela from an undated letter to his cousin Sisi writtenfrom Robben Island

The political vision

‘Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material are essential to highlight cultural and scientific heritage, to inspire the creation of new content and to encourage new online services to emerge. They help to democratise access to culture and knowledge and to develop the information society and the knowledge-based economy.’

European Council of Ministers, 20 November 2008

The political vision

Digital Agenda

Key Action 15: Propose a sustainable model for financing the EU public digital library Europeana and digitisation of content

Connecting Europe Facility 2014-2020Digital Service Infrastructure

……would be selected for CEF grants….

Enabling access to Europe’s cultural heritage (Europeana)

October 2011October 2011

May 2010May 2010

1.Framework

Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Europeana Now

6 Hackathons yielding 55

prototypes

20 API implementations

(and 68 denied requests)

23 million objects in the repository

2200 participating

institutions

17 million records covered by the

Data Exchange Agreement

Linked Open Data Pilot of 3 million items

Build the trusted source for cultural heritage

AGGREGATE

Expand the networkSource content

Improve data quality

1,995,888

Make heritage available wherever users are whenever they want it

DISTRIBUTE

Upgrade portalDevelop partnerships

Put content in users’ workflow

New Features Europeana.eu Portal

www.pro.europeana.eu

Linked Open Data

FACILITATESupport the cultural heritagesector through knowledge transfer, innovation & advocacy

Strengthen advocacy

Share knowledge

Foster R&D

CC0 Universal Public Domain

17 million metadata records covered

3 million more expected end June

1 July begin clean up operation

1 September release all Europeana held metadata

as open data

‘The Milkmaid’, one of Johannes Vermeer's most famous pieces, depicts a scene of a woman quietly pouring milk into a bowl. During a survey the Rijksmuseum discovered that there were over 10,000 copies of the image on the internet—mostly poor, yellowish reproductions. As a result of all of these low-quality copies on the web, according to the Rijksmuseum, “people simply didn’t believe the postcards in our museum shop were showing the original painting.This was the trigger for us to put high-resolution images of the original work with open metadata on the web ourselves. Opening up our data is our best defence against the ‘yellow Milkmaid’.”

Tim Berners Lee – 5 stars for Linked Open (Interoperable) Data

★ Put your data on the Web with an Open Licence★★ Make it available as structured data★★★ Use open, standard formats★★★★ Use URIs to identify things★★★★★ Link your data to other people’s data

Cultivate new ways for users to participate in their cultural heritage

ENGAGE

Enhance users’experience

Extend social media presence

Broker new user / curator relationships

Next StepsShared Resource for All

Who are we doing this for?

Where do cultural heritage institutions want to be in 5 years time?

End User

End User

Access to Cultural Heritage

End User

Access to Cultural Heritage

scholar

wikipedia

searchbooks

Commons

Public(Culture) Private

Community

Europeana

EUScreen

APEnet

Biblioteca Espana

National Archive

(Espana)

bibliothéque national de France

(France)Public(national)

culture.fr

TEL

European Film Gateway

Public (Research)

clarin

CESSDA

DRIVER

ESHispana

APENET

Europeana

The European

Library

Hispana

Europeana Research

d.lib

.si

EUScreen

2007-2011

researcher

cultural tourist

student

general public

researcher

cultural tourist

student

general public

researcher

cultural tourist

student

EuropeanaAPI

general public

Sharing the

back end =

sharing a cor

e cloud

based platfo

rm,

making data

interoperabl

e

Research API’s

EuropeanaAPI

general public

marketingdistributetoolsenrich

the value chain

cultural tourist

student

researcher

Europeana

aggregate

Europeana.eu

But deliver

according to

user need.

What they

want, how

they want it

TEL

general public

researcher

cultural tourist

student

Europeana

So different set of tools and services

and different front end for a researcher

Research API’s

TEL

general public

Spanish school child

cultural tourist

student

Europeana

And for school childin their own language…..

HIspana

Requires new ways of storing, preserving and access

The Europeana Cloud

Hispana

•Different shopfronts•Curated by experts•Based on user need

Who are we doing this for?

Where do cultural heritage institutions want to be in 5 years time?Where do cultural heritage institutions want to be in 5 years time?

GrowthCreativityCulture

Thank you

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