Europeana Introduction & Progress Olaf Janssen EuropeanaLocal Kick-off June 2008, London

Introduction to Europeana – the European digital library

Vision of the EU ‘The European Commission envisages the creation of a European digital library: a unique resource for Europe's distributed cultural heritage, ensuring a common access to millions of great paintings, historical writings, ancient manuscripts, diaries of the known and unknown, personal photos and national documents from Europe's libraries, archives and museums.’ Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Information Society Directorate, European Commission 'A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European cultural heritage.’ European Parliament, 27 September 2007

For the users it is not important whether the sources of knowledge and experience are kept by archives, libraries or museums, but to get access to the sources they want, and to be able to use & re- use these sources across types of sources and sectors of institutions. Demand, not supply driven

EU Roadmap / milestones 2008: full collaboration among 48 EU national libraries. 2008: access to >= 2 million digital books, films, photographs, manuscripts, and other cultural works - multilingual; searchable and usable; 2010: >= 6 million digital objects; including also - museums & archives - local and private initiatives (EuropeanaLocal)

How are we implementing this EU vision?

Implementing the EU vision 1.EDLnet = cross-domain network across - Museums - Archives - Audio-Visual Archives - Libraries 2. EDL Foundation = legal entity to sustain and develop Europeana

1.EDLnet = the cross-domain network

EDL network - purpose EDLnet: 2-year project funded by the EC for 1.3MEuro Started Jun 2007 Coordinated by Europeana KB, NL Aim of EDLnet: Prepare a common & multilingual access point to European cultural heritage by 1.Consensus building, concertation, collaboration (human & political interoperability) 2.Building user defined Europeana prototype with 2M objects (technical & semantical interoperability) 3.Making recommendations for implementing Europeana (>= 2009)

The aspects of interoperability Political & Human Tech & Semantic Users & usability Interoperability is connecting people, data and diverse systems.

90 organisations Representing all EU Member States  4 cultural heritage domains (AV-archives, archives, museums, libraries)  Research institutions  Cross-domain associations  National representatives  Related Commission-funded projects  More info: EDL network – partners

WP1: Human, Political & Intercommunity Interoperability Collaboration, consensus building between libraries, (AV-)archives, museums. Governance, organisational and business model & sustainability for Europeana Roadmap for future Europeana portal More info: WP2: Technical & Semantic Interoperability Set common metadata & access standards Recommendations for technical interoperability between the 4 domains. Deliver complete technical and functional specifications to build Europeana Create the final prototype in November 2008 More info n.ppt EDL network – 4 areas of work (1/2)

WP3: Users and Usability What do users in the 4 domains want to see in Europeana fed into the design of the functionality and look&feel of the prototypes. Each stage will also be validated by users and their input prioritised Final set of recommendations on users and usability for full Europeana More info Philippe.ppt WP4: Concertation and Dissemination will build the Europeana brand. establish Europeana among stakeholders as the place to expose their digital content. fix Europeana in the public mind as the web site for European cultural heritage Central information website – europeana.eu EDL network – 4 areas of work (2/2)

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2. EDL Foundation = legal entity to sustain and develop Europeana

EDL Foundations Members commit to  Provide access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage though a cross-domain portal  Co-operate in the delivery and sustainability of the joint portal  Stimulate initiatives to bring together existing digital content  Support digitisation of Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage More info: EDL Foundation – statutes

EDL Foundation – members Current members include: 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 International 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 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Netherlands: project host More info:

EDL Foundation partner in several current eContentPlus proposals:  EDLlocal - Local & Regional Museums, Libraries, Archives  EPA – Archives  ARROW - Rights Management Libraries & Publishers  ATHENA - Museums  EFG – Film archives EDL Foundation – project partner

EDL network & Europeana Work done so far

July 2007 : EDLnet started - Two years duration. EDL Foundation (=legal entity) set up Initial organisational structure agreed Initial semantic and technical interoperability requirements drawn up Video - Look and feel of prototype determined 5 content themes for prototype agreed Content for prototype selected Prototype 1 previewed + expert feedback given during conference in The Hague on 23-6 (access to >500,000 digital objects) More info:

National Portal European Film Gateway AV Collection X Eurbica National Archive 1 The European Library National Library 1 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 EUScreen TV 1 TV 2 TV 3 Research Libraries L 1 L 2 L 3 Museums Aggregator M1 M2 M3 Organisational structure National Library 2 National Library 3

EDL network & Europeana Work ahead until Jun 09

Work ahead until Jun 09 (1/2) November 2008 Public Final Prototype Direct access to 2 million digitised objects Content that represents all 4 domains Pan-European coverage Multilingual interface 19/20 November 2008 Prototype going Public - Launch by Viviane Reding in Brussels

Work ahead until Jun 09 (2/2) June 2009 Final governance, organisational & business model Final technical & functional specifications Final recommendations of users for Usability (Final prototype)  Ready to build the full Europeana site By 2010 Access to >6 million objects

EDL Foundation & Europeana Work for after Jun 09

Forthcoming projects ‘The Commission is committed to continuing its support for projects that will improve the availability of content from all the different institutions and the quality of services in Europeana’ Projects that will improve the interoperability of digitised collections held by museums, AV collections, archives and libraries EDL Local European Film Gateway Athena EPA ARROW

eContentplus 2008 submissions Proposals from the Europeana office EuropeanaVersion1.0: will launch the full Europeana service (>6M objects by 2010) EuropeanaConnect: will implement additional functionalities in Europeana Projects with EDL Foundation support include: oEuropeanaTravel oEuropeanaMovies oEU Screen

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