Supporting Europeana GLAM Time Machine FET Flagship

Europeana Impact – A working group proposal

George HomsEuropeana Members Council – The Hague, February 21-22, 2017

Consortium proposal to EU Future & Emerging Technologies Horizon 2020 Working Programme

FET Flagships “Science-driven, large-scale, multidisciplinary research

initiatives oriented towards a unifying goal, aiming at transformational impacts with substantial benefits for European competitiveness and for society”

Typical duration: 10 years Funding: up to € 1 billion

What is it about?

Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship

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Rationale behind Time Machine

Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship

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Driven by the Digital Humanities Heritage = data Big Data from the past 4D digitisation : Time Mapping European history

Leveraging the Venice Time Machine 80 kilometres of archives about Venice Project launched in 2012 Headed by EPFL and the University Ca’Foscari

Key take-aways

Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship

Consortium 80+ partners in 23 countries (to date) European and national programs Institutional partners (archives, libraries, DH centres…)

Timeline Autumn 2017 : Call for proposals Late 2017 : pre-selection + call/funding for detailed proposals Autumn 2018 : Final selection

Status

Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship

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Increased legitimacy for digitisation It is more than access and presentation

Connecting collections Pooling “big data of the past”

Interdisciplinarity Expand from “culture” to humanities as a whole

Outreach Encouraging creative re-use of heritage in society

What’s in it for us?

Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship

What can we do – and why?

Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship

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What is it?Can we quantify?

Who are stakeholders?What do they need?

How can we facilitate?Encourage cooperation?

Permanent “Impact” Working Group Impact – Channels - Coalition Serving GLAMs, Europeana, Time Machine – in one go Meets the Europeana business plan goals

Outcomes Conceptual presentation of Impact Build-out of inventory of practical use cases Facilitate dialogue and partnering through ENA Confirm role of ENA as a representative body

Proposition

Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship

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