europeana - yvo volman - eureopean commission
DESCRIPTION
Europeana est une bibliothèque numérique européenne lancée en novembre 2008 par la Commission européenne.TRANSCRIPT
Europeana, making it work for the creative
industries
Yvo Volman European Commission
Enjeux de l’économie de la connaissance Paris, 9-3-2012
Context
• Digital Agenda for Europe: Using ICT for growth and the economy and improving quality of life
• Digitisation and development of Europeana key action in the Digital Agenda
• Europeana launched in 2008
• Strong support from Ministers of Culture and the European Parliament
• Letter of 6 Heads of State and Government in 2005
Every European Digital
Europeana today
• More than 20 million objects from more than 2,000 institutions
• Solid organisational basis and network
• Biggest collaborative cultural endeavour at European level
• Relevance for citizens and for the economy
• Example for the Digital Public Library of America
Europeana and the creative industries
• Link to content brought in by commercial
providers available against payment
• Using the digitised material for new information
products and services
• Education, tourism, design…
• Improving language technologies, search, data-mining
etc
• Use conditions decided by the content holders
• Innovation based on the use of metadata (e.g.
apps)
Hackathons 2011
• 5 cities across Europe
• Shows the potential of the Europeana metadata
• Audience award: Timebook
• Europeana data exchange agreement
• In force on 1 July 2012
• Much more open than the earlier DEA
Apps for Educational use
Partner websites with some commercial
use
Making full use of the Europeana API
Funding possibilities
• CIP-IST-PSP programme
• Workprogramme 2012: line on ‘experimenting with the use of cultural material for creativity’
• Experimentation, creative applications and services that make the best use of Europeana cultural resources
• Collaborative projects
• Call for proposals closes on 15 May 2012
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm
‘Comite des Sages’ on digitisation
“We can reasonably expect that the arrival of millions of new digitised cultural works online wil spur a wave of innovation and new business models for companies specialised in various stages of the digitisation chain, as well as in creative content”