Europeana in a nutshell - Breandán Knowlton

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Europeana in a Nutshell Breandán Knowlton “Aggregation & Semantic Web” workshop, 22 May 2012, Stockholm

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A presentation given by Breandán Knowlton of the Europeana project to the Linked Heritage "Aggregation and Semantic Web Workshop" on 22 May 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden. Outlines the primary structures and goals of the Europeana project.

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Europeana in a Nutshell

Breandán Knowlton

“Aggregation & Semantic Web” workshop, 22 May 2012, Stockholm

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Breandán

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[email protected]

Programme Manager

Europeana Foundation

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Today

• What We Do at Europeana

• Why We Do It

• Some Exciting Projects

• What We Need From You

• What’s Next?

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What is Europeana?

What is Europeana?

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And as of now, we represent ….

• 120 aggregators and other data providers,

representing ...

• 2,200 museums, libraries, archives and

audiovisual collections, which have

contributed ...

• 23,410,637 digital objects, of which ...

• 3,000,000 are in the public domain.

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Our Aggregation Structure

Domain Aggregators Country Aggregators

Museums National Aggregators

Regional AggregatorsArchives

Libraries

Museums, libraries & archives

Film Archives

Sound Archives

Dark Aggregators

Museums,

libraries & archives

Museums,

libraries

& archives

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What is Europeana?

What is Europeana?

WHY

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FrancePoland

GermanyItalySpain

Hungary

2005

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2007

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The political vision

★ ‘Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural

material are essential to highlight cultural and

scientific heritage, to inspire the creation of new

content and to encourage new online services to

emerge. They help to democratise access to culture

and knowledge and to develop the information society

and the knowledge-based economy.’

~ European Council of Ministers

2008

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2008

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2008

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2009

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2010

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20112011

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“All public domain masterpieces should be brought into

Europeana”

“Metadata should be widely and freely available for re-use”

“the reference point for European culture online”

“Public Domain material should be freely available for all”

“Public funding for digitisation should be conditional on free accessibility through

Europeana”

20112011

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Strategic Plan2011-2015

Strategic Plan2011-2015

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Aggregate

• Extend the network of aggregators

• Improve the quality of the metadata

• Represent the diversity of our cultural heritage

Build the trusted source for cultural heritage.

Build the trusted source for cultural heritage.

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Facilitate

• Share knowledge among heritage professionals

• Foster Research & Development

• Strengthen Europeana’s advocacy role

Support the cultural heritagesector through knowledge

transfer, innovation & advocacy.

Support the cultural heritagesector through knowledge

transfer, innovation & advocacy.

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Distribute

• Upgrade the Europeana portal

• Put content in the users’ workflow

• Develop partnerships to deliver content

in new ways

Make heritage available wherever users are

whenever they want it.

Make heritage available wherever users are

whenever they want it.

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Engage

• Enhance the user experience

• Extend our use of social media

• Broker a new relationship between

curators, content and users

Cultivate new ways for users to participate

in their cultural heritage.

Cultivate new ways for users to participate

in their cultural heritage.

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What Are We Working On?

What Are We Working On?

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Some Exciting ProjectsSome Exciting Projects

★Community Collection Days★Community Collection Days

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Some Exciting ProjectsSome Exciting Projects

★Collaboration with Wikipedia★Collaboration with Wikipedia

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Some Exciting ProjectsSome Exciting Projects

★Hackathons and Hack4Europe★Hackathons and Hack4Europe

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Getting the Word Out

Getting the Word Out

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Virtual Exhibitions

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Blog

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Newsletter

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What Do We Need From You?

What Do We Need From You?

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So, What Do We Need From You?

•Great Content

•Great Technologies

•A Commitment to Open

Metadata

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Sign Me Up!

1: Data Exchange Information form

2: Sign the Data Exchange Agreement

3: You work with our Operations team

4: We give you feedback

5: We ingest your datasets – yay!

6: We ingest new and updated data

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… to contribute content.

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Let’s Build Stuff

• Help you with technical

specifications

• Provide access to test

environments

• Build domain data models for EDM

• Provide connections to our Network

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• We can ...

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But most of all

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• We need a commitment

to open licensing of your metadata

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So …What’s Next?

So …What’s Next?

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And In the Future?

• Structured Data (EDM)

• API and widgets

• Linked Open Data

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It’s all about:

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•Aggregating into a trusted

repository

•Facilitating the cultural heritage

sector

•Distributing content in users’

workflows

•Engaging users with culture in new

ways

•Aggregating into a trusted

repository

•Facilitating the cultural heritage

sector

•Distributing content in users’

workflows

•Engaging users with culture in new

ways

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Watch these:Watch these:www.europeana.e

ublog.europeana.eupro.europeana.eu

www.europeana.eu

blog.europeana.eupro.europeana.eu

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Thank you!Thank you!Breandán Knowlton

Programme ManagerEuropeana Foundation

Breandán KnowltonProgramme ManagerEuropeana Foundation

b @ breandan.orgb @ breandan.org

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