This document summarizes Europeana's activities and future plans. It notes that Europeana currently provides access to over 13 million digitized cultural heritage objects from over 1500 institutions. However, user needs are evolving and Europeana aims to aggregate content from diverse sources, distribute it through various access points, facilitate innovation in the cultural heritage sector through initiatives like Europeana Labs, and engage users through activities like crowdsourcing and social media outreach. Going forward, Europeana will focus on these four paths of aggregation, distribution, facilitation, and engagement to build an open trusted source of European digital cultural heritage and create more opportunities for participation and dialogue.
2. 20102008
13 million objects
28 data aggregators
1500 participating institutions
200 partners
35 FTE’s
21 projects
1 million visits in 2010
30,000 My Europeana signee
Stable portal
Open Source Code
EuropeanaLabs
Public Domain Charter
prototype operational service
4. CUSTOMER NEEDS
• End users are evolving from passive
consumers into active participants.
• They expect content to be free and easily
accessible through the channels they are
used to work with.
6. Persistent identifiers5
1.AGGREGATE
1 source curated
content
2 Linked
data
3
Multilinguality4
Data enrichment
Build the open trusted source for
European digital cultural material
7. 14 million objects
Contribution by country
Slovenia
1%
Italy
1%
Finland
2%
Belgium
2%
Greece
2%
Poland
3%
Europe
3%
Norway
7%
Ireland
7%
United Kingdom
8%
Netherlands
10%
Spain
10%
Sweden
11%
Germany
13%
France
20%
Europeana.eu Content Types
Texts
32%
Images
66%
Videos
1%
Sounds
1%
18-20th
Century
Dominance
Books, Articles,
Postcards,
Folklore objects,
Photography, Art
8. LOD Datasets on the Web:
September 2010
Over 25 billion RDF triples
Over 395 million RDF links between data sources
16. Policy – Public Domain
Public Domain
Charter
Public Domain
Usage Guide
Public Domain
Mark
17. Licensing
• Europeana Licensing Framework
• Leader: National Library of Luxembourg,
• Interoperable licenses that cover rights
information for objects in Europeana.
• Public Domain Charter
• Registries of rights information - ARROW
• Collective Licensing Research
18. 4.ENGAGE
1 Add UGC
2
Experiment with
Mashups
3 Get involved in
social networks
4Create Exhibitions
Hold competitions5
Create dialogue & participation
This is how it started… And where we are now (in numbers).
This is what the end-users want.
Focus will shift from quantity to quality!!!
Europeana will become part of the Linked Open Data cloud. Allowing others to enrich their data with our data and allowing our data to be enriched by the data of others!!!
A new role for Europeana from 2011 will be to re-distribute metadata within the Europeana network and with select non-commercial partners. That way the content will be available on more websites maximising the chances of users finding their way to the content.
API-pilot. www.kringla.nu searches also Europeana via our API.
The Europeana group project EUScreen has developed a Wordpress plug-in that functions as a Search Widget for Europeana.
Jeremy Ottevanger of the Imperial War Museum has developed the “Cultural enrichment mashificator”. It uses a semantic engine to extract named entities (persons.places) and subjects and then sends those as queries to Europeana and various other APIs. The reasults are displayed in a slide-show.
Europeana partners who don’t have the resources to custom integrate Europeana features or content into their own services can easily configure and create a Europeana search widget which they can include on their own site. This will allow their users to directly search Europeana from the Europeana partner’s site. If all 1500 Europeana data providers link to Europeana and through Europeana to each other it will raise traffic and increase SEO for everyone!!!
Requirement: http://europeanalabs.eu/wiki/SpecificationsDanubeSearchWidget
Europeana source code is open.
We encourage clear licensing, open access, open data and a vigorous Public Domain.
A Europeana Licensing Framweork has been developed and is being implemented. Together with Creative Commons we have developed the Public Domain Mark.
Through the facilitation of Europeana The Great War Archive will be extended to collect also information from Germany and France. All content will find its way to Europeana.
Through virtual exhibitions physically separated items can be presented together. Unlike the Europeana portal exhibited items include full digital objects (images, audio, video, texts). Europeana is interested to work with partners to co-create and co-curate exhibitions!!!