Okfn 30.06.2011
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What is Europeana?
“A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European cultural heritage.”
European Parliament, 27 September 2007
2011
91 direct providers and aggregatorsmore than 1500 individual institutions19+m items
CC-BY-NC(like)
CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
Why?
Users:Trusted sourceEase of use
Re-use
In my workflow
Cultural Institutions:VisibilityServices Revenue
Politicians:Inclusion Education Leadership
Economic growth
Market:Straightforward route to content
Access to the networkPremium servicesBrand Association
Why drop NC and BY?• Most of the metadata is factual information
• Most has been created with taxpayers’ money and everyone should have the right to use it
• It is very difficult to define the boundaries of NC
• There is much more to gain by giving up something
• Attribution is very hard to enforce especially when a long chain of intermediaries are involved
• We believe in a standardised license that will allow a minimum threshold for re-use
The Rewards• Increased data use & visibility drives traffic to content
holder’s site.
• Providers can still commercially exploit own metadata.
• Europeana LOD helps populate linked data cloud with trusted, quality resource.
• Enhances context of information through increased data interlinking.
• Enriched data back to provider, for own applications & users.
• Shows cultural heritage organisations at vanguard of innovation & stimulating digital research. Leads to funding
• Reinforces relevance of their cultural heritage to new generations.
The Risks• Loss of control over the channels of access and of
authority
• Loss of potential income
• Loss of reputation
• Loss of branding
• Loss of context and of the control over the integrity of the data
• Additional work required
…workshop participants acknowledged that rather than real risks, these are fears related to change…
The Process• Workshops on risks and rewards of open licenses –
(September 2010-December 2010)
• Workshops and presentations (APENET, ATHENA, EFG, EUSCREEN)
• Workshop with directors of museums, libraries, archives and av on the business models of open data
• Online consultation with the network between December 2010 and January 2011
• Second round of consultation with whole network in May
• 4 Hackathons in June (Barcelona, Poznan, London, Stockholm)
• LOD pilot
• Paper commissioned on the compatibility of CC0 with German jurisdiction
• Dedicated website about open data and our new agreement
Metadata related to the digitised objects produced by the cultural institutions
should be widely and freely available for re-use.
Key recommendations, p5
Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot
• 9 direct providers representing
• 300 libraries, museums, archives and av collections
• 16 countries
• 3,5 m records
• Pilot went live in June
• Proof that nothing bad will happen
• It’s a pilot- it’s still subject to change
• We are in the process of clearing CC0 for this data
• Check it out: Data.europeana.eu
Digital Agenda Day API Hackathons
Hack4Europe!
•About 85 developers participated•With a majority being independent developers or representing SMEs
•Creating 48 prototypes•Why: to showcase the social and commercial value of open cultural data
•With 14 winners in the categories and local special awards
Winner of the Commercial Potential Award: Art4Europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PEz2d7OLE
Winner of the Innovation Award: TimeMash
Winner of the Audience Award: TimeBook
Where are we now?
My organization will sign the new DEA (N=104):
Overall response clearly positive
My organization will sign the new DEA (libraries N=51)
Libraries
Museums
My organization will sign the new DEA (museums N=14)
New CC0 agreement will take effect from September onwards
More activities…
• LOD animation
• Individual meetings with providers
• Lots of workshops
• Operationalise some of the apps
• Paper on the Business Models of Open Data for the Cultural Heritage Sector
• Advocacy towards politicians: ie all EU-funded projects have to make their data available under open licenses and publicly funded digitisation should deliver CC0 metadata
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/newagreement
THANK YOU!