EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse DON’T ASK WHAT EUROPE CAN DO FOR US, BUT….. ……WHAT WE CAN DO FOR EUROPE ! EBNA May 10, session 2 Martin Berendse

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 2 May 2011: -APEnet project stops January, 2012 (no provisions for continuity) -Europe reassesses its strategy on digital cultural heritage (Report Comité des Sages “The New Renaissance” -Last chance EU funding follow up APEnet project (new call, deadline 1st June, 2011) Proposed actions: 1.APENET 2.0 proposal 2. Reaction EBNA on “The New Renaissance”

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 3 European policy / Archival policy “Digitisation and online accessibility 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 and to develop the information society and the knowledge–based economy”. European Council of Ministers on the launch of the Europeana prototype, Brussels, 20 November 2008

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 4 European policy / Archival policy (2) “Archives: record decisions, actions and memories a unique and irreplaceable heritage are authoritative sources of information, underpinning…....accountable and transparant administrative actions contribute to individual and community memory. Open access to archives enriches our: knowledge of human society, promotes democracy, protects citizens’ rights and enhances the quality of life” Universal Declaration on Archives (International Council on Archives, Oslo, 17 September 2010)

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 5 Trends Digital access to heritage/information helps: education, sientific research, culture, public participation, democracy, economy: information society Common goal European and national ambitions: a digital cultural heritage that is sustainably accessible and meaningful to the public Recent developments: Budget cuts, need for new business models Open data strategies National digital agendas/policies (f.e. F, GB and NL)

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 6 Archives as part of the digital agenda EU “We are cultural heritage and more…..” “… the national archivists, … declare their sincere intentions to support a closer archival professional cooperation in Europe with the aim to enhance further collaboration…”(EBNA declaration On digital access to archives) Recent activities: Intensifying the cooperation in the archives sector in Europe: EAG workprogramme, Brussels Declaration on Digital Access, current APEnet project

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8 APEnet = EU digital agenda Archives Coherent European digital infrastructure: One online access point to the archival material of 17 NA’s The Europeana aggregator for the EU archives community A catalyst for delivering archival material as uniformly as possible to Europeana Still work a lot of work to be done: mapping to new Europeana metadata model (EDM), expansion infrastructure, web 2.0 CONCLUSION: we need APEnet 2.0

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 9 Some background research (March-April 2011) Contacts with: - APEnetpartners - EU (Luxemburg, Brussels) - Europeana (The Hague) - IFLA/TEL (The Hague) - Government officials/consultants CONCLUSION: we have to take action NOW, based on “the library experience” *More commitment for APEnet *independent from European funds…. *…..to attract more European funding

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 10 PROPOSAL: 2 WAY STRATEGY I. APEnet FOUNDATION : -Partner in (EU) Policy Development -Position in European information space -Commitment to maxime production of digital content in close cooperation with our national governments, for the European information space (Europeana, APEnet) -Commitment for agreement on sustainability and continuity of the infrastructure of APEnet II.FOLLOW UP APEnet PROJECT: preproposal -Mapping Europeana, expansion infrastructure, web 2.0 -Knowledge sharing, intensifying cooperation in Europe’s archives sector -connected to APEnet FOUNDATION

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 11 Principles APEnet Foundation EBNA Declaration On digital access: “continue to elaborate innovative and cost effective ways to use modern Internet technologies to make as much descriptive and contextual information as possible, … accessible online and integrate it for cross boarder access into the joint union finding aid, built up by the Archival Portal Europe project” 1.Continuity APEnet infrastructure guaranteed 2.Members contribute to funds, personnel, content, work, based on EU solidarity 3.Financial independency (continuity APEnet infrastucture) 4.Sound contracts / rules in alignment with national regulation 5.Steering committee/board with strong connected to ICA/Eurbica, EBNA, EAG, cooperating with Europeana, EU

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 12 Principles follow-up APEnet (pre-proposal) Objective: to give access to as much archival material of archival institutions in EU as possitble, for as many users as possible, in the easiest way possible Two main principles : 1)Sustainability and continuity of the infrastructure of the Archives Portal Europe 2) Strenghtening the connection APEnet and Europeana (“Europeana for Sources, Europeana for Archives ?”) All operational, technical questions will be answered in accordance with these principles

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 13 Questions follow-up APEnet 1.Are the participants of the current APEnet project willing to continue their participation in the next project? 2.Other participants interested to join the next project ? 3.Who wants to join/support a (small) working group for the proprosal (deadline: 1 June) ? info “prepoposal taskforce”: Wim van Dongen, Yvonne Bos, Ma Oeh Pe, Maurice van den Dobbelsteen

EBNA May 10, session Martin Berendse 14 Questions strategy Do we agree: 1.To clarify our position towards Europe with a clear reaction on the report of the Comité des Sages (to be discussed tomorrow morning, to be presented in EAG afternoon) 1.To run for an APEnet v2.0 project to continue the work on the Archives Portal Europe 1.To create a APENET Foundation (similar to The European Library) with an independent financial basis.