NAPLE & Europeana NAPLE Forum Annual Assembly May 13th 2014 Rianne Brouwers – Netherlands Institute for Public Libraries

www.europeana.eu Mission: to open up Europe’s cultural wealth to as many people as possible. Europeana wants to make it shareable, available at the touch of a button, unlocked from our museums, galleries and archives and accessible for the many to pass on and share. In five years, Europeana built an infrastructure that connects over 30 million objects from over 2,500 institutions. Europeana has made all the data available under the most open licensing conditions and has started experimenting with creative re-use of that material. Objectives: AGGREGATE – build the open and trusted source for European cultural heritage FACILITATE – support the cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation and advocacy DISTRIBUTION & ENGAGEMENT – make heritage available to users wherever they are, whenever they want it, for any purpose NETWORK & SUSTAINABILITY

Some projects Europeana version 2: funds the core business of Europeana: Aggregation, Facilitation, Distributions and Engagement. Activities include efforts to: enhance content; increase and facilitate the re-use of content; develop a sustainable finance model; develop features and functionalities; … Europeana Creative: will demonstrate that Europeana can facilitate the creative re-use of cultural heritage metadata and content. The project will create five pilot applications in the thematic areas of History Education, Natural History Education, Tourism, Social Netwerks, and Design. Europeana Food and Drinks: to promote the wider re-use of the digital cultural resources available through Europeana to boost creativity and business development across Europe.

Board of Europeana Meets twice a year (april and october) Members: Federation of European Publishers, Murberget Länsmuseet Västernorrland, Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte, Bibliotheque National Francaise, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, FIAT/IFTA, Euroclio, Biblioteca Nacional de España, LIBER, The European Library, NAPLE, ICOM, Collections Trust, EMA, Int. Association of Sound & Audiovisual Archives, NEMO, EMF, Consortium of European Research Libraries, OAPEN, National Archive Norway, EURBICA, ACE

Proposed governance structure

New strategic plan 2015-2020 Main strategic objectives: Shift from portal to platform Improve data quality Support the public domain Increase the amount of re-usable content Improve discoverability -> Need to make it easier to participate -> Emphasis on generating usage - chance for public libraries!

Furthermore pro.europeana.eu (Please register as a network member, the more public libraries related, the better) -> How to stay informed about the Europeana board? -> AGM october 2014, Madrid Questions? -> Rianne Brouwers: brouwers@siob.nl