Access to Culture through the Digital Shift

Europeana & the cultural heritage ecosystem

Ready for Tomorrow. Vilnius, 1-2 September 2013

#AllezCulture

“Much more than an economic alliance, Europe has to become a cultural union”

Robert Schuman on the Founding of ECC, 1951

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Funding Cultural Collaboratively

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Why is Europeana important?Impact, Impact, Impact….

Europeana supports economic growth

Europeana connects Europe

Europeana makes Europe’s culture available to everyone

Europeana supports economic growth: Creative Industries in Europe are growing fast (estimated 7% per annum) and they need fuel.

Europeana provides that.

To date 770 businesses, entrepreneurs, educational & cultural organisations are re-using our data in websites, apps and games.

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Impact 1: Europeana Supports Economic Growth

Europeana connects Europe:

open, democratised access to culture helps all communities across Europe to understand the past and to appreciate cross-cultural differences.

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Impact 2: Europeana Connects Europe

Europeana makes Europe’s culture available for everyone:

29 million records under a Creative Commons Zero public domain dedication (CC0) means Europe’s heritage becomes available for re-use for everyone, young and old

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Impact 3: Europeana makes Europe’s Culture available for everyone.

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Supply/Distribution chain

Content Providers

Aggregators

Distributors Users

Need a similar scalable setup on the distribution side. - Accessing communities of use or networks: Schoolnet, Wikipedia, & social networks (pinterest, tumbler, facebook, etc.) - Creating end-user driven sites: Europeana 1914-1918, 1989, Fashion, Research - Hosting a lab where developers, media artists and entrepreneurs can create new things from old clothes - Europeana Labs

GLAM

Creative industries

Cultural Heritage

Institutions share the

same backend

infrastructure

Europeana Labs

An innovative space for use by developers, media artists, entrepreneurs and creatives to access the content, data, tools & services of Europeana the Digital Service Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage.

Launching early 2014 with a couple of pilots

Europeana: Serious Adventure Game – Natural History Puzzle

Europeana Education site on WW1

Europeana Research

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Europeana Pro

Europeana Fashion

Europeana Digital Service infrastructure

The Vision

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