Europeana status quo

Europeana Status Quo

Vilnius Aggregator meeting 07/10/2013

Joris Pekel@jpekel

Thursday 10 October 2013(w)

About


Content

à Where do we come from?à Where are we at?à Where are we going?


Where do we come from?


History of Europeana à April 2005: Jacques Chirac wrote to European Commission President

José Manuel Barroso, recommending the creation of a virtual European library

à EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate had been supporting European digital information exchange projects for 15 years

à September 2005: publication of EC’s i2010 strategy on digital librariesà 2007: European Digital Library Network – EDLnet – began building

Europeana, funded under i2010à November 2008: Europeana prototype launched à Summer 2010: prototype became an operational service funded under

the EC’s CIP ICT-PSP (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme)

à January 2011: New Renaissance Report published - endorses Europeana as ‘the reference point for European culture online’

à September 2012: Europeana metadata released under CC0 waiver, making it freely available for re-use


Growth of Europeana

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Where do we come from?

à Very low barriers for joiningà ‘Ploughing’ the European cultural heritage sectorà Extreme rapid growthà Great in making change, not so great in providing great value


Where are we now?


Where are we now?

à Nearly hit the 30M metadata recordsà Rights labeling campaignà Metadata qualityà Change in fundingà Europeana strategy plan 2015-2020à Great in quantity, not so great in quality


Where are we going?


Where are we going

à Europeana has to become a trustworthy source for accessing cultural content

à Platform driven vs. portal drivenà Continue to set standards on a legal and technical levelà Europeana Cloudà Providing access to contentà Provide tangible value to our data providers


Current aggregation model

Domain Aggregators National initiatives

Audiovisual collections

National Aggregators

Regional AggregatorsArchives

Thematic collections

Libraries

e.g. Musées Lausannois

e.g. Culture Grid,

Culture.fr

e.g. The European Library

e.g. APEX

e.g. EUScreen, European Film Gateway

e.g. Judaica Europeana, Europeana Fashion


Europeana Cloud

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Tangible value - what is that??

à Consultancy and advice on legal and technical issuesà Tools à Trusted source for documentationà Continue to set standards on a legal and technical levelà Highlight and showcase your good workà Metrics about usage of Europeana data


Conclusion


Conclusion

à High quality data is key for success à Europeana as partner to move your institution forward in the

digital age à Making content available for re-use


Thank you

Joris Pekel

[email protected]@jpekel


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Europeana status quo

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