Cross-domain access to Europe’s heritage Jon Purday Senior Communications Advisor, Europeana Doom or Bloom: reinventing the library in the digital age EUROLIS

PARTNER LOGO Europeana: the vision ‘A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European cultural heritage.’ European Parliament, 27 September 2007 ‘A unique resource for Europe's distributed cultural heritage… ensuring a common access to Europe's libraries, archives and museums.’ Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Information Society Directorate, European Commission EUROLIS Doom or Bloom

PARTNER LOGO European Commission’s Digital Libraries Initiative Three strands of pan-European activity: 1.Digitisation Avoid duplication / create synergies Strategic and financial planning Promoting mass digitisation facilities and programmes 2.Digital preservation Strategies and standards Digitised from analogue Born digital: legal deposit; web harvesting 3.Online accessibility EUROLIS Doom or Bloom

PARTNER LOGO Online accessibility: Europeana Objectives: Create a multilingual, cross-domain portal Provide digitised public domain content as a potential resource for new information products and services Play a role in the future growth of sectors such as research, learning and creative innovation Reinforce the relevance of cultural heritage organisations to an online generation Promote understanding of our common European background Provide a focus for discussion of European copyright harmonisation EUROLIS Doom or Bloom

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Content on the prototype 4.5 million items from every domain, every EU member 3,500,000 images: paintings, drawings, postcards, posters, original photographs and images of museum objects 935,000 texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts, letters 115,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts, public information films 13,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings This integration of media enriches the users’ experience and opens up new opportunities for pan-European and cross-disciplinary study and research EUROLIS Doom or Bloom

PARTNER LOGO Cross-domain collaboration EDL Foundation: Board of participants from the heritage and research associations 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 EUROLIS Doom or Bloom

PARTNER LOGO Collaboration is central to the Europeana network 150+ partners from museums, libraries, archives, audio-visual collections, university research programmes Representing all domains, all Member States Promotes technology and knowledge transfer across the heritage, research and information domains and between Member States Shares minimum common standards and best practice Technical experts lead work groups which develop use cases, models and components Network translates all parts of the interface into 26 languages Currently over 1,000 content providers: individual organisations and aggregators EUROLIS Doom or Bloom

PARTNER LOGO Athena Archives Portal Europe [APEnet] STERNA BHL Europe EUScreen Video Active European Film Gateway Europeana Local Europeana Travel MIMO Judaica Europeana Connect Europeana v1.0 Developing Europeana Europeana.eu Arrow Presto Prime EUROLIS Doom or Bloom

PARTNER LOGO Developing Europeana Core technology providers Europeana v1.0 Creates fully operational service First release: Rhine in 2010 Final release: Danube in 2011 Europeana Connect Content enablers Arrow: Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works Ways to identify rights holders and what the relevant rights are Create network of clearance mechanisms PrestoPrime Audiovisual collections: tools and processes for digitisation and access EUROLIS Doom or Bloom

PARTNER LOGO Domain aggregators providing content to Europeana ‘ Rhine release’ in 2010 will give access to 10 million items from: Europeana Travel: exploration, tourism and cartography Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL Europe]: texts and taxonomies Archives Portal Europe [APEnet]: national archives European Film Gateway: film, scripts, posters, stills Europeana Connect: sound recordings EU Screen: TV broadcasts Athena: museum objects Europeana Local: regional libraries and museums The European Library: books and other texts Information about all the projects contributing content and technology to Europeana: EUROLIS Doom or Bloom

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