Europeana: a shared resource Jill Cousins June 18, 2012, Madrid
Agenda Policy Strategy 2011-2015 Aggregate Distribute Facilitate Engage Next Steps Shared resource for all Like truth, culture & creativity are enduring Nelson Mandela from an undated letter to his cousin Sisi written from Robben Island
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, 20 November 2008
The political vision
Digital Agenda May 2010 Key Action 15: Propose a sustainable model for financing the EU public digital library Europeana and digitisation of content October 2011 Connecting Europe Facility 2014-2020 Digital Service Infrastructure would be selected for CEF grants. Enabling access to Europe s cultural heritage (Europeana)
1.Framework
Strategic Plan 2011-2015
6 Hackathons yielding 55 prototypes Europeana Now 20 API implementations (and 68 denied requests) 23 million objects in the repository Linked Open Data Pilot of 3 million items 2200 participating institutions 17 million records covered by the Data Exchange Agreement
AGGREGATE Build the trusted source for cultural heritage Source content Expand the network Improve data quality
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DISTRIBUTE Make heritage available wherever users are whenever they want it Develop partnerships Upgrade portal Put content in users workflow
New Features Europeana.eu Portal
www.pro.europeana.eu
Linked Open Data
FACILITATE Support the cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation & advocacy Strengthen advocacy Share knowledge Foster R&D
CC0 Universal Public Domain 17 million metadata records covered 3 million more expected end June 1 July begin clean up operation 1 September release all Europeana held metadata as open data
The Milkmaid, one of Johannes Vermeer's most famous pieces, depicts a scene of a woman quietly pouring milk into a bowl. During a survey the Rijksmuseum discovered that there were over 10,000 copies of the image on the internet mostly poor, yellowish reproductions. As a result of all of these low-quality copies on the web, according to the Rijksmuseum, people simply didn t believe the postcards in our museum shop were showing the original painting. This was the trigger for us to put high-resolution images of the original work with open metadata on the web ourselves. Opening up our data is our best defence against the yellow Milkmaid.
Tim Berners Lee 5 stars for Linked Open (Interoperable) Data Put your data on the Web with an Open Licence Make it available as structured data Use open, standard formats Use URIs to identify things Link your data to other people s data
ENGAGE Cultivate new ways for users to participate in their cultural heritage Enhance users experience Extend social media presence Broker new user / curator relationships
Next Steps Shared Resource for All
Who are we doing this for? Where do cultural heritage institutions want to be in 5 years time?
End User
Access to Cultural Heritage End User
Public (Culture) EUScreen Private European Film Gateway APEnet Europeana books search scholar clarin Public(Resea rch) TEL DRIVER Access to Cultural Heritage CESSDA (Espana) Biblioteca Espana End User Community National Archive Public (national) ES (France) Hispana wikipedia Commons bibliothéque national de France culture.fr
APENET EUScreen 2007-2011 Europeana Europeana Research The European Library d.lib.si Hispana
general public researcher cultural tourist student
general public researcher cultural tourist student
Europeana API general public researcher cultural tourist student Sharing the back end = sharing a core cloud based platform, making data interoperable Research API s
the value chain Europeana Europeana API aggregate enrich tools distribute marketing Europeana.eu general public researcher cultural tourist student But deliver according to user need. What they want, how they want it
Europeana TEL general public Research API s researcher So different set of tools and services and different front end for a researcher student cultural tourist
Europeana TEL general public HIspana Spanish school child And for school child in their own language.. cultural tourist student
Requires new ways of storing, preserving and access Hispan a The Europeana Cloud Different shopfronts Curated by experts Based on user need
Who are we doing this for? Where do cultural heritage institutions want to be in 5 years time? Where do cultural heritage institutions want to be in 5 years time?
Culture Creativity Growth
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