5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Name Thank you Europe’s cultural wealth at a mouse click

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A What is EUROPEANA ? ?  A common multilingual and digital access point to Europe’s cultural heritage  Stimulated and co-ordinated by the European Commission  Users will be enabled to search different collections in Europe’s cultural institutions in their own language through a web portal (without having to visit multiple sites or countries) search is free of charge 2

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A The political vision ‘Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material are essential 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 to culture and knowledge and to develop the information society and the knowledge-based economy.’ European Council of Ministers, 20 November 2008

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A ? Whom is EUROPEANA aimed at?  Anyone interested in European cultural resources such as literature, history, arts, music, cinema, books, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, records, photographs, films, radio, TV, and the like. The challenges: INTEROPERABILITY - INTERDISCIPLINARITY - MULTILINGUALITY  End-users: experts and professionals as well as citizens, researchers and scientists as well as school children, students as well as teachers. 4

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A ?  EUROPEANA’s cross-domain coverage 5

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Overview of Europeana –A portal that integrates the digitised holdings of Europe’s libraries, archives, museums and audiovisual collections –Prototype launched in November 2008 with 2 million items –Currently gives access to 20 million items –1,500 content providers –Interface in 29 languages –Funded mainly by the European Commission

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5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 8 Who governs EUROPEANA?  The European Digital Library (EDL) Foundation  After change of name: Europeana Foundation  Legal entity according to Dutch Law

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Statu -tes Executive Board Supervisory Board admits appoints The Executive Board manages the EDL Foundation and represents it. It holds legal power and reports on finance & strategy.. The Supervisory Board makes decisions and pays contributions fixed by the EB. 9 Purpose: to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage EUROPEANA governance (2010) Statutes The daily business is conducted by the Europeana Office, accommodated at the Royal Library of the Netherlands in The Hague.

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 10 Statu -tes Executive Board Supervisory Board admits appoints Europeana controls Statutes The Executive Board manages the EDL Foundation and represents it. It holds legal power and reports on finance&strategy. Composition, appointment and resignation according to article 9-11 of the Statutes. Min 5, max 9 members. Currently 8 members: ACE, CENL, EMF, FIAT, ICA, KB, LIBER, MICHAEL. EUROPEANA governance (2010

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 11 Statu -tes Executive Board Supervisory Board admits appoints Europeana controls EC provides funds controls EUROPEANA governance (2010) Statutes

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 12 Statu -tes Executive Board Supervisory Board admits appoints Europeana controls EC provides funds controls Partners E.g. sponsoring organisations, member states, associated participants pay contributions, give advice admission by EB Partners may establish expert groups (EG) EG Archives (12) AV collections (7) Cross-domain associations (12) Libraries (14) Museums (11) National representatives (26) Other (2) Project contributors (12) Research institutions (12) (Number not restricted) EUROPEANA governance (2010) Statutes

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Statu -tes Executive Board Supervisory Board admits appoints Europeana controls EC provides funds controls Partners pay contributions, give advice admission by EB Partners may establish expert groups (EG)^^ EG Contributors “Council of Content Providers & Aggregators” provide content, give advice EG Council of Content Providers & Aggregators EUROPEANA governance (2010 ) Statutes

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Stakeholder collaboration at the top level Europeana Foundation’s Supervisory Board: ACE: Association Cinémathèques Européennes CENL: Conference of European National Librarians CERL: Consortium of European Research Libraries EMF: European Museum Forum EURBICA: European Regional Branch of the Int Council on Archives FIAT: International Federation of Television Archives IASA: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives ICOM Europe: International Council of Museums, Europe LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A An Overview of Benefits 1)Political Agenda 2)Key Partners - Aggregators and Content Providers 3)Think Global act Local; Global activities structured and centralised at local level 4)Part of some fast moving developments in portal and technology 5)Traffic; targeting end-user 6)Visibility of your content and institution 7)Network, Projects, Content Council, Thematic Network 8)Europeana Shared Services, activities and tools 9)Europeana Work Groups 10)Be part of Europeana’s Future Developments 15

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Aggregators and Content Providers part of EUROPEANA Foundation Governance Executive Committee Board of Participants Council of Content Providers & Aggregators Up to 6 elected Benefit no. 1 16

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Aggregation structure Domain AggregatorsCountry Aggregators Museums National Aggregators Regional Aggregators Archives Libraries Museums, libraries & archives Film Archives Sound Archives Dark Aggregators Museums, libraries & archives Museums, libraries & archives

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Helga Trupel, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education - European Parliament Reports “Europeana is a very important project, because it gives people easy access to European culture and heritage worldwide.” The European Parliament Resolution adopted on 5 May 2010: “Europeana should become one of the main reference points for education and research purposes and should be integrated into education systems” Stakeholders - Commission consultation “Europeana – Next Steps” Benefit no Political Agenda

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A MuseumsArchivesLibraries Audio- visual collections Cross-domain aggregators Single Aggregators Thematic aggregators Benefit no Glocal - Think Global act Local

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Aggregators: Projects & Organizations Europeana End-user Content Providers Benefit no Data Distribution Channels

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A “However, I find it alarming that only 5% of all digitized books in the EU are available on Europeana. I also note that almost half of Europeana's digitized works have come from one country alone, while all other Member States continue to under-perform dramatically.” Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, 28 August 2009 Moving forwards Benefit no. 5 21

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A September mill objects 5 countries contributing more than 1 % 22

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A September Data Providers contributing more than 1% 23

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A September Mill objects 14 countries contributing more than 1% 24

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A September 2010, More than 20 providers contributing more than 1% 25

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Aggregators Map overlay Cross domain aggregators Vertical aggregators Legend: Aggregation Landscape Benefit no. 6 26

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Supported Projects 16 projects 2008 –2010 Rhine release Danube release Benefit no. 7 27

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 13,1 million objects – Content types 28

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A User Statistics Benefit no. 8 29

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Increased traffic and visibility to your content-site Targeting End-users Benefit no. 9 30

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Improved portal developments Improved search Related items, autosuggestion, ranking Browse Timeline Search Demo’s Virtual Exhibition Applications Mobile Annotations Metadata Improvement Benefit no

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Thematic Network Council of Content Providers and Aggregators (CCPA) Project Coordinators Group IPR Group Communications Group Technical Group 32 Benefit no. 11 EUROPEANA shared Groups

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5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A “Metadata should be widely and freely available for re- use” “Public Domain material should be freely available for all” “All public domain masterpieces should be brought into Europeana” “the reference point for European culture online” “Public funding for digitisation should be conditional on free accessibility through Europeana”

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives. Mexico City 16–18 November 2011 E U R O P E A N A

Build the trusted source for cultural heritage AGGREGATE Expand the networkSource content Improve data quality

Build the trusted source for cultural heritage Extend the network of aggregators - support national aggregation initiatives Improve the quality of the metadata - persistent identifiers; rights information Represent the diversity of our cultural heritage - 20 million items from 30 countries 14 million images 6 million texts 300,000 sounds 150,000 videos 5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives. Mexico City 16–18 November 2011 E U R O P E A N A

FACILITATE Support the cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation & advocacy Strengthen advocacy Share knowledge Foster R&D

Support the sector through knowledge transfer, innovation and advocacy Share knowledge among heritage professionals - training resources; workshops; conferences Foster R&D - promote open source; prototype apps; Linked Open Data pilot Strengthen Europeana’s advocacy role - defend the public domain; educate on appropriate re-use; support rights’ harmonisation and access to orphan works 5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives. Mexico City 16–18 November 2011 E U R O P E A N A

Make heritage available wherever users are whenever they want it DISTRIBUTE Upgrade portal Develop partnerships Put content in users’ workflow

Make their heritage available to users wherever they are, wherever they want it Upgrade the Europeana portal - new interface released in October 2011 Put content in the users’ workflow - Open Search API and widget Develop partnerships to deliver content in new ways - Digital Public Library of America; Wikipedia; cultural tourism 5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives. Mexico City 16–18 November 2011 E U R O P E A N A

Cultivate new ways for users to participate in their cultural heritage ENGAGE Enhance users’ experience Extend social media presence Broker new user / curator relationships

Cultivate new ways for users to participate in their cultural heritage Enhance the user experience - virtual exhibitions, interactive video Extend our use of social media - Wiki loves monuments Broker a new relationship between curators, content and users - The First World War in Everyday Documents - Wikipedia; cultural tourism services; educational providers 5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives. Mexico City 16–18 November 2011 E U R O P E A N A

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A ?  Why provide content?  User‘s experience is enriched by Europeana  Europeana exposes metadata to search engines  Europeana drives traffic to your sites  Europeana will provide a set of API‘s  Users expect content to be integrated  Knowledge transfer 45

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 46 Why join EUROPEANA as a contributor? Europeana is a unique occasion for content holders to open their collections and gain a completely new visibility. The benefits are:  Increase the degree of familiarity across Europe and even worldwide  Increase the number of users  Get new audience  Increase revenues For organisations willing to contribute their digital contents: basic instructions, mapping aids, a technical requirements questionnaire and specifications of semantic elements are available.

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 47 EUROPEANA’s working groups  WG1: Human, Political & Intercommunity Interoperability  WG2: Technical & Semantic Interoperability  WG3: Users and Usability  WG4: Concertation and Dissemination  WG5: Management and Co-ordination

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 48 EUROPEANA ADDITIONAL SERVICES ACTIVITIES Annual free access Conference Workshops discovering and exploring important topics which are challenging the cultural sector Presentations at Conferences to support our Partners TOOLS Data Aggregator and Data Provider Agreements Aggregator Handbook Content Checker ThoughtLabs Open Source Code..... and more to be shared

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 49 Will European citizens be interested in EUROPEANA?  For example Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Gallica): 1.5 million hits/month, 4000 downloads/day European libraries: 138 million registered users  Depending upon efforts of member states to digitize material as much as possible quality and quantity of the material offered legal conditions

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Partner Network: Ingestion: Communications Technical: EUROPEANA web site: 50 Europeana CONTACTS

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 51 Future Developments Country contributions Tackle IPR and copyright issues Increase quality in data, adapt to Europeana’s Data Model Continuously develop the portal to engage users Multilingualism Funding & revenue models That it remains “hot news” Join private and public partners

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A 52 EUROPEANA is  a unique occasion for content holders to open their collections and gain a completely new visibility.  a unique occasion for experts to access information in a way it was never possible before, with cross-domain approaches and access to content and metadata.  a new occasion for general users to access the cultural richness of our society; to discover unsuspected content and to navigate through knowledge.

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A belongs to all of us (Europeans) created by all of us and to be explored by all of us (all over the world) 53

5 th seminar of sound and audiovisual archives, Mexico City, November 2011 E U R O P E A N A Thank you for your attention