What is this Europeana thing?Breandán Knowlton – @bfk

Europeana Creative Kick-Off, 21 February 2013, Vienna

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Breandán KnowltonProgramme ManagerEuropeana Foundation

B @ breandan.org@bfk

Today

• What is Europeana?

• What Sort of Projects Do We Do?

• What’s Next?

What is Europeana?

2008

2008

Europeana is a website ….

Actually a series of websites ….

And an Application Programming Interface (API) ...

Built on a data service, with ….

• 150 aggregators and other data providers, representing ...

• 3,000 museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections, which have contributed ...

• 26 million digital objects, of which ...

• 6 million are available for commercial re-use.

and grow

ing!

It’s operated by a non-profit, the Europeana Foundation

It’s operated by a non-profit, the Europeana Foundation

Along with a dizzying array ofMuseums, Archives and Libraries

Called theEuropeana Network

The Foundation and the Network work on Projects …like Europeana Creative.

Europeana PhotographyEuropeana Inside Europeana 1914-1918Europeana Libraries Europeana Newspapers

Europeana Projects

Core Projects

Partner Projects

Subcontracts

Europeana Version 1

Europeana Version 2Europeana Awareness

Europeana CloudEuropeana Creative

Europeana Cloud

•Ingest 2.4m metadata records and 5m digitised

objects in a cloud-based infrastructure

•Content available for reuse by a targeted group of humanities and social science scholars.

•Create the Europeana Research portal

•Explore the potential of cloud computing

technologies

•Infrastructure for the use of anyone

How do we do that?

Aggregate

Build the trusted source for cultural heritage.

Facilitate

Support the cultural heritagesector through knowledge

transfer, innovation & advocacy.

Distribute

Make heritage available wherever users are

whenever they want it.

Engage

Cultivate new ways for users to participate

in their cultural heritage.

Engagement

User Engagement

Concepts

Target Groups

Themed Content

Partners Interactive Platform

We engage online.

Virtual Exhibitions

Site for cultural professionals

Blog

Newsletter

Professional Blog

Pinterest

And connect to offline.

Some Exciting Projects

Collaboration with Wikipedia

Some Exciting Projects

Hackathons and Hack4Europe

Some Exciting Projects

WWI Community Collection Days

But there’s a big gap.

We can’t build all of the engagement platforms.

But we’re not enabling creative industry to do it, either.

What’s Next?

1. Linked Open Data

The Europeana Licensing Framework

2. Extend the Licensing Framework

from metadata to content

3. Crowdsourcing Campaigns

And our newest initiative ...

4. The Europeana Open Lab Network

Engagement

Watch these:www.europeana.eublog.europeana.eu

pro.europeana.eu/blog

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Thank you!Breandán KnowltonProgramme ManagerEuropeana Foundation

B @ breandan.orgPro.europeana.eu