Europeana: what next -governance, finance and projects

Jill CousinsJill Cousins

EDL FoundationEDL Foundation

MSEG, Luxembourg, 29 January 2009MSEG, Luxembourg, 29 January 2009

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o 150 network members o ALL EU countries o ALL sectors representedo Over 4 million items accessibleo Standards being agreed & appliedo Enormous publicityo Europeana Beta version back on 18 December 08o EDL Foundation as governance backboneo Financial backing from several ministrieso Business model published

Europeana: the successes in 2008

Purpose: • to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage.

The Foundation will: • facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives, audio-

visual archives and libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal. 

• provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding purposes and as a springboard for future governance.

The EDL Foundation

Present Shape of the EDL Foundation & its Governance

European Associations

National AssociationsNational Institutions

Regional InstitutionsIndividual museums, archives, libraries

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Decision

Channelling

Cross Domain

Foundation

Associates e.g.: ministries, sponsoring private partners etc

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National Digital Library

ACE

Film Archive X

Eurbica National Archive 1

MICHAELCENL

NL 1 NL 2 NL 3

Museum X

Archive X

National Archive 2

Film Archive 1

Film Archive 2

Film Archive 3

National Archive 3

Library X

Museum A Archive A Library A

FIAT

Television Archive 1

Television Archive 2

IASA

Sound Archive 1

Sound Archive 2

ICOM Europe

Museum 1Museum 2

ACE

Federation of European Publishers

Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C

A structure for EDL FoundationA structure for EDL Foundation

Board of Participantscurrent situation

Participants can be:

A. European Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders

B. National Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders

C. International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch (non legal entities) of this association

D. Relevant individual institutions (legal entities) for one of the domains,

E. Natural persons for the benefit of a relevant individual institution or association for one of the Domains, which is not a legal entity.

EDL Foundation Governance

EU Funding & Orientation Committee: Commission & Member States

Advisory & Budgetary roles

Holds legal power & Reports on finance & strategy

Executive Committee

Board of Participants

Council of Content Providers & Aggregators

Up to 5 elected

Up to 9 elected

Board of ParticipantsProposal

Participants can be:

A. European Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders

B. International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch (non legal entities) of this association

C. Natural persons for the benefit of an association for one of the Domains, which is not a legal entity.

D. Existing/Founding members of the Board of Participants and the hosting organisation (BnF, INA, BNS, BA, KB)

E. Elected representatives of the Council of Content Providers and Aggregators (5)

Old sections B & D deleted:National Associations of Content Holders & Relevant

individual institutions

Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (CCPA)

Participants can be:A. Content Providers, individual institutionsB. Associations of Content ProvidersC. Aggregators (on all levels and all domains)

o 5 people/institutions to be elected to the Board of Participants from the Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (1 per Domain and 1 aggregator)

o The CCPA will convene at least 1x per annum for a general assemblyo The CCPA can form Working Groups on specific topics and themes to advise

the EDLF and associated projectso Members of the CCPA will actively be invited to participate in associated

projects

Commission Funding & Orientation Committee

Participants can be:A. Representatives of Member States that contribute to the EDLFB. Representatives of European Commission

o The Commission Funding & Orientation Committee will advise the EDL Foundation on strategic and budget issues

o The EDL Exec. Committee will inform Commission Funding & Orientation Committee on what is being done with the money and the strategy

o The Commission Funding & Orientation Committee will be chaired by the Commission

o The Commission Funding & Orientation Committee to convene around Member State Expert Group meetings

Next steps

o Draft any proposed changes middle February 2009o Executive Committee EDL Foundation agrees middle March 2009o Assess changes in statutes needed and costs middle April 2009o Ratify draft statutes at EDL Foundation Board meeting early June 2009o Instruct lawyers to change statutes June 2009o New statutes and structure in place Autumn 2009

Runningo Europeana Localo EFGo Athenao APEneto PrestoPrimeo STERNA

In negotiationo Europeana v1.0o EuropeanaConnecto BHLEuropeo EUScreeno EuropeanaTravelo MIMOo JUDEICA

The universe of Europeana Projects 2009

NL 1 NL 2 NL 3

EDL

National Digital Library

ACE

Film Archive X

Eurbica National Archive 1

MICHAELCENL

Museum X

Archive X

National Archive 2

Film Archive 1

Film Archive 2

Film Archive 3

National Archive 3

Library X

Museum A Archive A Library A

FIAT

Television Archive 1

Television Archive n

IASA

Sound Archive 1

Sound Archive n

ICOM Europe

Museum 1

Museum 2

The European Library

VideoActive

ATHENA

APEnet

EFGACE

Culture.fr

CulturaItalia

BAM

National Digital Libray Fnland

EuropeanaLocal

Trebleclef

PrestoPrime

IMPACT

BHLMIMO

EuropeanaConnect

Judaeica

EuropeanaTravel

EUScreen

STERNA

v1.0

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The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009

Europeana –financial backing for known projectsEuropeana –financial backing for known projects

Contributions to date:

euros

  France  200000Netherlands     200000Italy   72500Finland 30000Lithuania       18805Germany 45000BnF     30000Total   596305

Need minimum 760,000, would like 1 million euros

image Europeana

Europeana´s Value PropositionAggregator of Interoperable European Content

Image business model blocks

Realising the value propositionRealising the value propositionBusiness Model ConceptBusiness Model Concept

Europeana.euEuropeana.eu the Mutual Incentive Business Model the Mutual Incentive Business Model

o Budgetary committment from 2011 onwards, against key of monetary distribution

o New funding help to match any new projects in 2009 or 2010o Encouragement of aggregation at national levels o Encouragement of content delivery from institutionso Funding of digitisation and preservation in institutionso Engagement in the public domain and copyright debates

Europeana wishes from Member StatesEuropeana wishes from Member States

o Builds networko Pushes towards aggregation o Maintains Prototype o Glue for projectso Works on sustainable financingo Works on licensing and public domain o 10 million items by 2010o Europeana v1.0 operational service June 2010o Surrogate modelo Reuse

Europeana v1.0Europeana v1.0

Questions?Questions?