Bringing culture to all - Together !Europeana and Open Data

Joris Pekel

Oslo, Norway 06/01/2014@jpekel

Hi

Content

à About Europeana à About Open Data à Why Open? à What are the obstacles? à How are we trying to solve this? à Going forward

@jpekel

During the next 30 minutes I will tell you more about what Europeana exactly is and how we work, why we think this is important, and share some of the results with you. I will also go a bit deeper into the concept of open culture, talk about the issues we are running into, and finally what our goals are for the future

What is Europeana

@jpekel

The first time the idea for Europeana was mentioned was in 2005. Six countries wrote a letter to EU-president Barroso where they explained the need for a European digital library where all European citizens can freely access all of Europe’s heritage from books, paintings, music, audiovisual, etcetera. One of the goals of Europeana is to strengthen the sense of a ‘European Identity’. By giving wider access to culture from all the European countries, people are able to construct their history and realise that their national culture is always interwoven with that of other countries. Borders have shifted, people have migrated, pan-European events etc. It is impossible to say our identity is only from one nation, it is a much more complex gathering of different identities through time which we can reconstruct through culture, and by that get a better understanding of who we are and why we are here. That is the more philosophical side of the project, but there is also a very practical one, and that is to bring together all of Europe’s cultural heritage and to make it accessible from one point. !When I was an art history and film student, I would very often study people/films/plays that were not bound to one place, as art and people tend to move around. Ran around into the gallery, Monet. It was therefore incredibly difficult to get all the source material together for my research. Even if the material was to be found in the Netherlands, it would take me a long time to get there and cost me. If I found the book I copied the parts I needed and went back for further studying. I was always really happy with the expertise and willingness of the staff to help me find my relevant material. Institutions really want their information to be used and spread. When something was not in the Netherlands I just had to be lucky that somebody would have put it online (illegal) or that the snippet version of Google books would by accident show me the relevant pages. !This is obviously not ideal, and in the digital world we are now living in this is not necessary anymore, The cost of storage has reduced to almost zero and through the internet we can connect and disseminate collections and objects more easily than ever. And it is even not expected. What is not to be found online, does not exist. We risk as institutions to become obsolete if we do not make the transition in to the digital world.

What is Europeana

à Found in 2005

@jpekel

The first time the idea for Europeana was mentioned was in 2005. Six countries wrote a letter to EU-president Barroso where they explained the need for a European digital library where all European citizens can freely access all of Europe’s heritage from books, paintings, music, audiovisual, etcetera. One of the goals of Europeana is to strengthen the sense of a ‘European Identity’. By giving wider access to culture from all the European countries, people are able to construct their history and realise that their national culture is always interwoven with that of other countries. Borders have shifted, people have migrated, pan-European events etc. It is impossible to say our identity is only from one nation, it is a much more complex gathering of different identities through time which we can reconstruct through culture, and by that get a better understanding of who we are and why we are here. That is the more philosophical side of the project, but there is also a very practical one, and that is to bring together all of Europe’s cultural heritage and to make it accessible from one point. !When I was an art history and film student, I would very often study people/films/plays that were not bound to one place, as art and people tend to move around. Ran around into the gallery, Monet. It was therefore incredibly difficult to get all the source material together for my research. Even if the material was to be found in the Netherlands, it would take me a long time to get there and cost me. If I found the book I copied the parts I needed and went back for further studying. I was always really happy with the expertise and willingness of the staff to help me find my relevant material. Institutions really want their information to be used and spread. When something was not in the Netherlands I just had to be lucky that somebody would have put it online (illegal) or that the snippet version of Google books would by accident show me the relevant pages. !This is obviously not ideal, and in the digital world we are now living in this is not necessary anymore, The cost of storage has reduced to almost zero and through the internet we can connect and disseminate collections and objects more easily than ever. And it is even not expected. What is not to be found online, does not exist. We risk as institutions to become obsolete if we do not make the transition in to the digital world.

What is Europeana

à Found in 2005à Launch in 2008

@jpekel

The first time the idea for Europeana was mentioned was in 2005. Six countries wrote a letter to EU-president Barroso where they explained the need for a European digital library where all European citizens can freely access all of Europe’s heritage from books, paintings, music, audiovisual, etcetera. One of the goals of Europeana is to strengthen the sense of a ‘European Identity’. By giving wider access to culture from all the European countries, people are able to construct their history and realise that their national culture is always interwoven with that of other countries. Borders have shifted, people have migrated, pan-European events etc. It is impossible to say our identity is only from one nation, it is a much more complex gathering of different identities through time which we can reconstruct through culture, and by that get a better understanding of who we are and why we are here. That is the more philosophical side of the project, but there is also a very practical one, and that is to bring together all of Europe’s cultural heritage and to make it accessible from one point. !When I was an art history and film student, I would very often study people/films/plays that were not bound to one place, as art and people tend to move around. Ran around into the gallery, Monet. It was therefore incredibly difficult to get all the source material together for my research. Even if the material was to be found in the Netherlands, it would take me a long time to get there and cost me. If I found the book I copied the parts I needed and went back for further studying. I was always really happy with the expertise and willingness of the staff to help me find my relevant material. Institutions really want their information to be used and spread. When something was not in the Netherlands I just had to be lucky that somebody would have put it online (illegal) or that the snippet version of Google books would by accident show me the relevant pages. !This is obviously not ideal, and in the digital world we are now living in this is not necessary anymore, The cost of storage has reduced to almost zero and through the internet we can connect and disseminate collections and objects more easily than ever. And it is even not expected. What is not to be found online, does not exist. We risk as institutions to become obsolete if we do not make the transition in to the digital world.

What is Europeana

à Found in 2005à Launch in 2008à “Access to all of Europe’s heritage”

@jpekel

The first time the idea for Europeana was mentioned was in 2005. Six countries wrote a letter to EU-president Barroso where they explained the need for a European digital library where all European citizens can freely access all of Europe’s heritage from books, paintings, music, audiovisual, etcetera. One of the goals of Europeana is to strengthen the sense of a ‘European Identity’. By giving wider access to culture from all the European countries, people are able to construct their history and realise that their national culture is always interwoven with that of other countries. Borders have shifted, people have migrated, pan-European events etc. It is impossible to say our identity is only from one nation, it is a much more complex gathering of different identities through time which we can reconstruct through culture, and by that get a better understanding of who we are and why we are here. That is the more philosophical side of the project, but there is also a very practical one, and that is to bring together all of Europe’s cultural heritage and to make it accessible from one point. !When I was an art history and film student, I would very often study people/films/plays that were not bound to one place, as art and people tend to move around. Ran around into the gallery, Monet. It was therefore incredibly difficult to get all the source material together for my research. Even if the material was to be found in the Netherlands, it would take me a long time to get there and cost me. If I found the book I copied the parts I needed and went back for further studying. I was always really happy with the expertise and willingness of the staff to help me find my relevant material. Institutions really want their information to be used and spread. When something was not in the Netherlands I just had to be lucky that somebody would have put it online (illegal) or that the snippet version of Google books would by accident show me the relevant pages. !This is obviously not ideal, and in the digital world we are now living in this is not necessary anymore, The cost of storage has reduced to almost zero and through the internet we can connect and disseminate collections and objects more easily than ever. And it is even not expected. What is not to be found online, does not exist. We risk as institutions to become obsolete if we do not make the transition in to the digital world.

What is Europeana

à Found in 2005à Launch in 2008à “Access to all of Europe’s heritage”à European Identity

@jpekel

The first time the idea for Europeana was mentioned was in 2005. Six countries wrote a letter to EU-president Barroso where they explained the need for a European digital library where all European citizens can freely access all of Europe’s heritage from books, paintings, music, audiovisual, etcetera. One of the goals of Europeana is to strengthen the sense of a ‘European Identity’. By giving wider access to culture from all the European countries, people are able to construct their history and realise that their national culture is always interwoven with that of other countries. Borders have shifted, people have migrated, pan-European events etc. It is impossible to say our identity is only from one nation, it is a much more complex gathering of different identities through time which we can reconstruct through culture, and by that get a better understanding of who we are and why we are here. That is the more philosophical side of the project, but there is also a very practical one, and that is to bring together all of Europe’s cultural heritage and to make it accessible from one point. !When I was an art history and film student, I would very often study people/films/plays that were not bound to one place, as art and people tend to move around. Ran around into the gallery, Monet. It was therefore incredibly difficult to get all the source material together for my research. Even if the material was to be found in the Netherlands, it would take me a long time to get there and cost me. If I found the book I copied the parts I needed and went back for further studying. I was always really happy with the expertise and willingness of the staff to help me find my relevant material. Institutions really want their information to be used and spread. When something was not in the Netherlands I just had to be lucky that somebody would have put it online (illegal) or that the snippet version of Google books would by accident show me the relevant pages. !This is obviously not ideal, and in the digital world we are now living in this is not necessary anymore, The cost of storage has reduced to almost zero and through the internet we can connect and disseminate collections and objects more easily than ever. And it is even not expected. What is not to be found online, does not exist. We risk as institutions to become obsolete if we do not make the transition in to the digital world.

What is Europeana

à Found in 2005à Launch in 2008à “Access to all of Europe’s heritage”à European Identityà Bring culture together and give access from one point

@jpekel

The first time the idea for Europeana was mentioned was in 2005. Six countries wrote a letter to EU-president Barroso where they explained the need for a European digital library where all European citizens can freely access all of Europe’s heritage from books, paintings, music, audiovisual, etcetera. One of the goals of Europeana is to strengthen the sense of a ‘European Identity’. By giving wider access to culture from all the European countries, people are able to construct their history and realise that their national culture is always interwoven with that of other countries. Borders have shifted, people have migrated, pan-European events etc. It is impossible to say our identity is only from one nation, it is a much more complex gathering of different identities through time which we can reconstruct through culture, and by that get a better understanding of who we are and why we are here. That is the more philosophical side of the project, but there is also a very practical one, and that is to bring together all of Europe’s cultural heritage and to make it accessible from one point. !When I was an art history and film student, I would very often study people/films/plays that were not bound to one place, as art and people tend to move around. Ran around into the gallery, Monet. It was therefore incredibly difficult to get all the source material together for my research. Even if the material was to be found in the Netherlands, it would take me a long time to get there and cost me. If I found the book I copied the parts I needed and went back for further studying. I was always really happy with the expertise and willingness of the staff to help me find my relevant material. Institutions really want their information to be used and spread. When something was not in the Netherlands I just had to be lucky that somebody would have put it online (illegal) or that the snippet version of Google books would by accident show me the relevant pages. !This is obviously not ideal, and in the digital world we are now living in this is not necessary anymore, The cost of storage has reduced to almost zero and through the internet we can connect and disseminate collections and objects more easily than ever. And it is even not expected. What is not to be found online, does not exist. We risk as institutions to become obsolete if we do not make the transition in to the digital world.

à 30m records from 2,300 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries

à Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers

à Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs

à Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts

à Film, newsreels, television

à Curated exhibitions à 31 languages

Europe’s cultural heritage portal

So this effort resulted in Europeana. We currently aggregate the material from about 2300 institutions around Europe, leading to a database of a little over 30M records. A few things that are important to notice:

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Layer #1: Digital objects (on the site of the provider)!

Layer #2: Previews (lower quality versions of #1) !

Layer #3: Metadata (descriptive object information)!

EDM:rights!

Preview & Digital Objects are licensed as described in �EDM: rights�!

CCO!

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1. We only store metadata, the description. This in order to make the material to be found. All the metadata includes a link to the digital object on the page of the providing institution. 2. This means we won’t store metadata when there is no digital object available. Our sister project The European Library does store complete bibliographies. 3. All metadata is freely available without any restrictions by using the CC0 public domain waiver. I will get back to that later on. 4. It is up to the institution how to license their digital objects. But we want to know and show that to our users by using a rights statement. We do encourage an open policy in the institutions in order to make everything that can be made openly available. 

Who submits data to Europeana?

Domain Aggregators National initiatives

Audiovisual collections

National Aggregators

Regional AggregatorsArchives

Thematic collections

Libraries

e.g. Musées Lausannois

e.g. Culture Grid,

Culture.fr

e.g. The European Library

e.g. APEX

e.g. EUScreen, European Film Gateway

e.g. Judaica Europeana, Europeana Fashion

At a working level, we operate in a network of aggregators. We can’t work directly with 2,200 organisations, so we rely on aggregators to collect data, harmonise it, and deliver to Europeana. Aggregators are important because they share a background with the organisations whose content they bring together, so there is close understanding. The aggregation model enables Europeana to collect huge quantities of data from thousands of providers, through only a handful of channels.  .

Open?

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http://opendefinition.org

So you’ve heard me mention the word open now for a couple of times, but what does that really mean? In this context it means making the data available in an open way. Here is the definition we use for open, taken from the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Definition’  “A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”

Open?

@jpekel

“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”

http://opendefinition.org

So you’ve heard me mention the word open now for a couple of times, but what does that really mean? In this context it means making the data available in an open way. Here is the definition we use for open, taken from the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Definition’  “A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”

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Twelve Rights Statements available for EDM: rights!

@jpekel

So this ranges from material that is in the public domain, which means it is completely out of copyright - often due to the age of the object so can be used without any restrictions-  to the requirement to attribute the original source, or share the new work under the same open license (share alike). For this we use the set of Creative Commons licenses which allow you to decide what kind of rights are reserved. Due to time I will not go into all Creative Commons licenses in this presentation, you can have a further read at their website.

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Twelve Rights Statements available for EDM: rights!

@jpekel

So this ranges from material that is in the public domain, which means it is completely out of copyright - often due to the age of the object so can be used without any restrictions-  to the requirement to attribute the original source, or share the new work under the same open license (share alike). For this we use the set of Creative Commons licenses which allow you to decide what kind of rights are reserved. Due to time I will not go into all Creative Commons licenses in this presentation, you can have a further read at their website.

@jpekel

What I do want to highlight is the CC0 public domain dedication. Note that it is not a license. By applying CC0 you dedicate the data to the public domain and take all restrictions away from it. When Europeana started the metadata was licensed in such a way it would only allow for non-commercial re-use. After a lot of research, and simply experiencing it like this, we have come to the conclusion that this does not work for metadata from a variety of sources. In order to stimulate maximum re-use the data has to be re-usable without any restrictions. For this reason all of Europeana’s metadata was released as CC0 in September 2012, which led to a massive uptake of our API that allows you to re-use the data in new ways. So all the description data in Europeana can be used by anyone for any purpose without asking. Note again that this is only for the metadata! The facts about the object. The digitised object is licensed in a way the institution decides to. 

Open culture on culture

@jpekel

So to come back to my earlier point about Europeana’s aim to make all culture available to anyone - this is why we encourage an open approach to making culture available online. We ask institution to keep digital representations of objects that are in the Public Domain, in the Public Domain. So not to claim new copyright over scans because you consider it as ‘your new creative work’ for example. Also, when you have the rights to open up collections, please do so. We have collected quite a lot of evidence by now that shows that open collections get far more views than non open material and it gets used in places where far more users are, like Wikipedia. Besides we believe that it is the goal of any cultural institution to let as much people as possible enjoy and benefit from their work as possible. 

Open culture on culture

à What is in the Public Domain stays in the Public Domain

@jpekel

So to come back to my earlier point about Europeana’s aim to make all culture available to anyone - this is why we encourage an open approach to making culture available online. We ask institution to keep digital representations of objects that are in the Public Domain, in the Public Domain. So not to claim new copyright over scans because you consider it as ‘your new creative work’ for example. Also, when you have the rights to open up collections, please do so. We have collected quite a lot of evidence by now that shows that open collections get far more views than non open material and it gets used in places where far more users are, like Wikipedia. Besides we believe that it is the goal of any cultural institution to let as much people as possible enjoy and benefit from their work as possible. 

Open culture on culture

à What is in the Public Domain stays in the Public Domain

à If you have the rights to openly license content, do so

@jpekel

So to come back to my earlier point about Europeana’s aim to make all culture available to anyone - this is why we encourage an open approach to making culture available online. We ask institution to keep digital representations of objects that are in the Public Domain, in the Public Domain. So not to claim new copyright over scans because you consider it as ‘your new creative work’ for example. Also, when you have the rights to open up collections, please do so. We have collected quite a lot of evidence by now that shows that open collections get far more views than non open material and it gets used in places where far more users are, like Wikipedia. Besides we believe that it is the goal of any cultural institution to let as much people as possible enjoy and benefit from their work as possible. 

Decrease of the Public Domain

@jpekel

Public Domain is decreasing

Decrease of the Public Domain

à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public Domain works

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Public Domain is decreasing

Decrease of the Public Domain

à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public Domain works

à Extensions of copyright duration

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Public Domain is decreasing

Decrease of the Public Domain

à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public Domain works

à Extensions of copyright durationà Public Private partnerships

@jpekel

Public Domain is decreasing

Decrease of the Public Domain

à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public Domain works

à Extensions of copyright durationà Public Private partnershipsà Unclear legal situation

@jpekel

Public Domain is decreasing

Decrease of the Public Domain

à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public Domain works

à Extensions of copyright durationà Public Private partnershipsà Unclear legal situationà Digitisation and storage not for free - new business

models are needed

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Public Domain is decreasing

Open culture on culture

@jpekel

Very interesting research that shows that older in copyright works tend to disappear.

Why Open?

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à Public Mission à Larger Audience à Connect and contextualise collections à The digital dream

Public Mission

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"Enable access to everyone who wants to do research" - British Library, Our Mission and 2020 Vision !"Our core values are: accessibility, sustainability, innovation and cooperation." -National Library of the Netherlands, Our Mission and Vision !

"To provide diverse audiences with the best quality experience and optimum access to our collections, physically and digitally." - the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mission and Objectives !

"The Federal Archives have the legal responsibility of permanently preserving the federal archival documents and making them available for use." - German Federal Archives - Responsibilities !

The National Gallery of Denmark is Denmark’s premier museum of art. Through Accessibility, education, and exhibition - Danish National Gallery - Mission

We work with almost solely public institutions. This means they are publicly funded (tax) and have the duty and mission to serve the public. I have copied here a couple of the mission statements of some cultural institutions. As you can see, giving access to a wide audience is in all a major element. As I mentioned earlier, the people working at the archives/libraries I visited during university did everything they could to give me what I was looking for. By opening up your collection your potential audience increases in a way previously not imaginable and helps you a great way completing your public mission. 

Why Open?

@jpekel

à Public Mission à Larger Audience à Connect and contextualise collections à The digital dream

Larger Audience

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à Put your material where the users are !

By opening up not only more people can get access to your material, it can also be used in other platforms. The data can be used where the people are, like in Wikipedia articles, online courses, mobile apps etc. This radically grows your audience. There are now quite a lot of case studies where institutions that opened up their collection saw a great increase in website hits because people started using their material in other platforms and places. (for example Netherlands institute of Sound and Vision that opened up old newsreels that were used in Wikipedia. This led to millions of monthly views and thousands of trackbacks to their own website.) Tim O’reilly described this is ‘The real problem for most artists is obscurity, not piracy’. This goes the same way for cultural institutions. Opening up can make you known to a much wider audience.

Why Open?

@jpekel

à Public Mission à Larger Audience à Connect and contextualise collections à The digital dream

Connect and Contextualise

Now this is what I think is one of the greatest potentials of open culture data, and that is to combine objects and collections and show them in new contexts. Not a single archive or library has everything about a particular event/artist/author etc. Very often the material is scattered all over the country or even the world. Because it is digital and open we can now combine these different materials and tell new stories about our histories. On the slide you see the Europeana 1989 project which is about the fall of the Iron Curtain. Many countries were involved or affected by this event and by collecting and combining the material from these countries you can have a look at different viewpoints about this important part of history. This project is a combination of curators and crowdsourcing, which again shows the possibilities of working together, instead of for example a government or a textbook deciding how the countries history should look like. It very much democratises our tellings of history.

Why Open?

@jpekel

à Public Mission à Larger Audience à Connect and contextualise collections à The digital dream

The Digital Dream

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A world in which our shared cultural heritage, the map of humanity, is open to all regardless of their background A world in which people are no longer passive consumers of cultural content created by an elite, but contribute, participate, create and share !

This one is a bit more up in the air. But I wanted to summarise the ultimate dream of the digital world.  A world in which our shared cultural heritage, the map of humanity, is open to all regardless of their background A world in which people are no longer passive consumers of cultural content created by an elite, but contribute, participate, create and share

Some context…

@jpekel

Europeana’s goal is to ‘make all of Europe’s heritage available’. That is quite an ambitious statement and definitely not an easy task. Just for a little perspective. We now include material from around 2300 institutions. The total amount of institutions in Europe lies around 60.000. Als only about 7% of the total amount of material is actually digitised, where in some countries this stays below 1%. Digitisation and storage is not Europeana’s core business, we care about making the material available to a wider audience.  So even if the material is digitised and available, we’re not there yet. Many institutions are still afraid to make the move, or are simply not able to. The main issues mainly come down into two things: Copyright and technical issues.

Some context…

@jpekel

à 2300 institutions

Europeana’s goal is to ‘make all of Europe’s heritage available’. That is quite an ambitious statement and definitely not an easy task. Just for a little perspective. We now include material from around 2300 institutions. The total amount of institutions in Europe lies around 60.000. Als only about 7% of the total amount of material is actually digitised, where in some countries this stays below 1%. Digitisation and storage is not Europeana’s core business, we care about making the material available to a wider audience.  So even if the material is digitised and available, we’re not there yet. Many institutions are still afraid to make the move, or are simply not able to. The main issues mainly come down into two things: Copyright and technical issues.

Some context…

@jpekel

à 2300 institutionsà 60.000 in total in Europe

Europeana’s goal is to ‘make all of Europe’s heritage available’. That is quite an ambitious statement and definitely not an easy task. Just for a little perspective. We now include material from around 2300 institutions. The total amount of institutions in Europe lies around 60.000. Als only about 7% of the total amount of material is actually digitised, where in some countries this stays below 1%. Digitisation and storage is not Europeana’s core business, we care about making the material available to a wider audience.  So even if the material is digitised and available, we’re not there yet. Many institutions are still afraid to make the move, or are simply not able to. The main issues mainly come down into two things: Copyright and technical issues.

Some context…

@jpekel

à 2300 institutionsà 60.000 in total in Europeà 7% of all material digitised

Europeana’s goal is to ‘make all of Europe’s heritage available’. That is quite an ambitious statement and definitely not an easy task. Just for a little perspective. We now include material from around 2300 institutions. The total amount of institutions in Europe lies around 60.000. Als only about 7% of the total amount of material is actually digitised, where in some countries this stays below 1%. Digitisation and storage is not Europeana’s core business, we care about making the material available to a wider audience.  So even if the material is digitised and available, we’re not there yet. Many institutions are still afraid to make the move, or are simply not able to. The main issues mainly come down into two things: Copyright and technical issues.

Some context…

@jpekel

à 2300 institutionsà 60.000 in total in Europeà 7% of all material digitised

Europeana’s goal is to ‘make all of Europe’s heritage available’. That is quite an ambitious statement and definitely not an easy task. Just for a little perspective. We now include material from around 2300 institutions. The total amount of institutions in Europe lies around 60.000. Als only about 7% of the total amount of material is actually digitised, where in some countries this stays below 1%. Digitisation and storage is not Europeana’s core business, we care about making the material available to a wider audience.  So even if the material is digitised and available, we’re not there yet. Many institutions are still afraid to make the move, or are simply not able to. The main issues mainly come down into two things: Copyright and technical issues.

Copyright Issues

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à Copyright not made for the digital world à Fear of doing it wrong à Expect curators/librarians/archivists to become ‘amateur

lawyers’ à Unclear for (re-)user what is allowed

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Copyright is by far the topic we have the most discussions about. Currently there are 28 countries in the European Union, and each and every one of them has its on copyright law. This makes it extremely hard to work towards a unified approach and many cases have to be dealt with on a case by case basis. Many institutions are hesitant with opening up their collections as they are simply not aware of the copyright status of the work, or they are afraid that something will go wrong. The difficulty is that curators, librarians, archivists etc. are not trained in law, and here they suddenly have to all become amateur lawyers, which is not to be expected either. For this reason Europeana provides a lot of documentation and best practices on copyright. We also provide workshops to our partners were we deal with copyright and give personal advice on collections. And besides that we

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Rights Statements & Issues!

•  We have our own licensing policy

•  Our collection is very complex

•  Europeana Rights Statements don�t apply to our collection

•  We don�t need to provide a Rights Statement, that information

is clear from our website

•  We don�t know which Rights Statements applies

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Some of the questions and comments we hear

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Rights Statements & Solutions!

•  Europeana have clearly defined Rights Statements;

•  Published at www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/terms-and-policies

•  Europeana provide tools for determining the Rights Statement;

•  Public Domain Calculator

•  EDM Rights Selection Tool

•  Europeana deliver workshops and bespoke advice

•  Europeana advocate via publications such as The Public Domain Charter

•  Europeana monitor the usage and appropriateness of the Rights

Statements

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Here are some of the efforts we do to work towards this.

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Looking for content to reuse!

One of the most important things of our work is to make sure it is clear to the end user what can and can not be done with the material. So I will quickly take you through this proces. So first there is the search query.

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Refining content by types of reuse allowed!

The user can filter on the type of licensing

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How can you reuse this object?!

If you wonder what the possibilities and restrictions are of an object you can click on the statement

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What does �Rights Reserved …� mean?!

And get the explanation

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Very recently we added an even more simple filter called ‘can I use it?’ which filters your search results on ‘Open content’ so ranging from Public Domain to CC-BY-SA, open with restrictions so content with the non-derrivatives and non-commercial restriction, and finally ‘you have to ask permission.’ Cause don’t get me wrong, very often it is not up to the institution to decide if something is open or not due to the work still being in copyright, or third party rights. This is fine, but it is important that the institution is clear about this.

Europeana’s vision and mission

àEuropeana is a catalyst for change in the world of cultural heritage.

àOur mission: The Europeana Foundation and its Network create new ways for people to engage with their cultural history, whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure.

àOur vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural diversity better and contributes to a thriving knowledge economy.

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Europeana going forward

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Europeana going forward

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à More data will be added à Quality vs Quantity à Focus on making available content à Less focus on portal, more on platform à Growing the Network à Push for copyright reform à Research possibilities for Cloud based infrastructure

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Questions?

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Thank you

Joris Pekel

Joris.pekel@kb.nl@jpekel