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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Programme Manager
Europeana Foundation
Today
• What We Do at Europeana
• Why We Do It
• Some Exciting Projects
• What We Need From You
• What’s Next?
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
What is Europeana?
What is Europeana?
WHY
FrancePoland
GermanyItalySpain
Hungary
2005
2007
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
2008
2008
2009
2010
20112011
“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
Strategic Plan2011-2015
Strategic Plan2011-2015
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.
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.
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.
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.
What Are We Working On?
What Are We Working On?
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
Virtual Exhibitions
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Blog
Newsletter
What Do We Need From You?
What Do We Need From You?
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.
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 ...
But most of all
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• We need a commitment
to open licensing of your metadata
So …What’s Next?
So …What’s Next?
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
Watch these:Watch these:www.europeana.e
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www.europeana.eu
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Thank you!Thank you!Breandán Knowlton
Programme ManagerEuropeana Foundation
Breandán KnowltonProgramme ManagerEuropeana Foundation
b @ breandan.orgb @ breandan.org