EDL Foundation and Europeana Deuxiėme Atelier national MinervaEC, Bruxelles, 19 Septembre 2008

Europeana.eu –The Vision “A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “ European Union Communiqué August 2006

Europeana.eu –The Vision Open access to the digitised objects of European cultural institutions –Showing the result of the digitisation efforts –Cross multilingual search our cultural heritage at a single place –Across cultural domains and across European countries General public - User centered Web & Digital library technology

EuropeanaNet (EDLnet) Thematic Network across 4 domains: Museums, Libraries, Archives and Audiovisual Collections To establish trust between the institutions To create a coalition of the willing To create the organisational structure for a European Digital Library To tackle domain level interoperability issues (standards) To propose a practical implementation of the European Digital Library (a user defined prototype)  The EDL Foundation …

Purpose: to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage. So the Foundation will: facilitate formal agreement across Museums, Archives, Audiovisual collections and Libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal. provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding purposes and as a springboard for future governance.

EDL Foundation Structure EDL National Digital Library ACE Film Archive X EurbicaNational Archive 1 MICHAEL CENL NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 Museum X Archive X National Archive 2 Film Archive 1 Film Archive 2 Film Archive 3 National Archive 3 Library X Museum A Archive A Library A FIAT Television Archive 1 Television Archive n IASA Sound Archive 1 Sound Archive n ICOM Europe Museum 1 Museum 2 The European Library VideoActive ATHENA APEnet EFG ACE Culture.fr CulturaItalia BAM CIMEC etc…… EuropeanaLocal

EDL Foundation Board of Participants Conference of European National Librarians European Branch of Intl. Council on Archives Intl. Fed. of Television Archives Association Cinémathèques Europeennes European Museums Forum Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe National Library of The Netherlands International Council of Museums Europe Consortium of European Research Libraries Intl. Assoc. of Sound & Audiovisual Archives Das Bundesarchiv, Germany Bibliothèque nationale de France Institut Audiovisuel, France Biblioteca Nacional de Espaňa Ministerio de Cultura - Espaňa Elisabeth Niggemann (chair) Martine de Boisdeffre (vice) Edwin van Huis (treasurer) Claudia Dillmann Massimo Negri Hans Geleijnse Christophe Dessaux Wim van Drimmelen (secretary) Executive Director Jill Cousins

Project funded til 2011 – Issue of matching funds and missing overhead €1m to find before end of 2008, for proposals to create a sustainable Europeana can go ahead. From 2011 Mixed funding: – Commission and Member States / Agency or Grant Operation Business Model and Sustainability:

The cross domain network Archives Austrian State Archives European Archive European Branch of ICA Direcção-Geral de Arquivos Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg National Archives of Finland Federal Archives of Germany National Archives of Sweden National Archives of the Netherlands National Archive of France International Institute for Social History Audio-visual collections International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Association des Cinémathèques Européennes International Federation of Television Archives European Broadcasting Union Institut national de l'audiovisuel Cross-domain associations Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg ABM-utvikling, Norway RUNAS, the Danish Archives, Libraries and Museums MICHAEL AISBL Arbeitsgruppe europäischen Angelegenheiten Bibliotheken,Archive Museen ABM-Centrum, Sweden Institute for Cultural Memory, Romania Heritage Malta Istituto per i beni artistici, culturali e naturali – Regione Emilia-Romagna Erfgoed Nederland Museums Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza Rijksmuseum Institute for Museum Research, Berlin International Council of Museums Europe Natural History Museum Network of European Museum Organisations European Museums Forum Museum of London Group Science Museum Libraries Danish State Library Aarhus Catholic University of Leuven European Bureau of Library, Information & Documentation Associations Ligues des bibliothèques européenes de recherches Consortium of European Research Libraries State and University Library Göttingen Conference of European National Librarians Cervantes Library Biblioteca de Catalunya National Authorities on Public Libraries in Europe Project Contributors Bernstein CITER DELOS DIGMAP DISMARC DRIVER EPsIplus Video Active MultiMatch Cross Czech a.s. TrebleCLEF Knowledge Management in Museums Project Research institutions Arts and Humanities Data Service Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland Digital Lifecycle Management Forum Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Music Archive European Commission on Preservation & Access German Social Science Infrastructure Sciences Heriot-Watt University Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - National Technical University of Athens Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Kennisland / Knowledgeland TOPP Consulting GmbH Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam National representatives Austria, National Library Belgium, Royal Library Bulgaria, New Bulgarian University Library Cyprus, Ministry of Education and Culture Czech Republic, National Library Denmark, Royal Library Estonia, National Library Finland, National Library France, National Library Germany, National Library Greece, Veria Central Public Library Hungary, National Library Iceland, National and University Library Ireland, University College Cork Latvia, National Library Liechtenstein, National Library Lithuania, Vilnius University Luxembourg, National Library Norway, National Library Poland, National Library Portugal, National Library Slovakia, National Library Slovenia, National Library Spain, National Library Sweden, National Library United Kingdom, British Libraryall domains Brings together the digitised & digital items from Museums, Archives, Audio Visual Collections & Libraries across Europe Solves the issues of interoperability in data Works on usability – finding paths, presenting items, appealing Finds sustainable governance & organisational models Builds on previous initiatives / BRICKS, ANNOculture, Qviz, Michael Network of 120 cultural institutions Access to material from 160 plus Two major cross domain conferences

Europeana.eu –The Successes to Date Strong network 120 members Plus 45 institutions who have completed the questionnaire for harvesting ALL EU countries represented ALL Domains represented 1.3 million items harvested to date 800,000 ingested At least 2 million will be harvested & ingested by November 19. Search across domains and material types works Standards being agreed across & within domains Domains talking to each other for the first time

Europeana.eu –The Successes for the future Interoperability;Standards;Relevance;Accessibility Google speeds accessing deep web material User focus – created with, validated by, cross checked & redesigned according to user wishes......

Europeana.eu – A new design………. All the user surveys, focus groups and information has been give to a design company We have a new design but it is embargoed until November

Europeana.eu – A new design………. For more information: