The outcomes from the morning's Task Force meetings.

1. TASK FORCE MEETINGS
Europeana Network Annual General Meeting, December 2nd 2013

2. TASK FORCE
PPP

3. MAIN OUTCOMES
 Scope for PPP should be more focused on key issues:
• The value chain
• From digitisation to re-use of data/content and back
• Premium services and enrichment of data
• The business model
• The PAIN and GAIN
• The value proposition
• This is the next phase

5. NEXT STEPS
 To pull in resources from:
• Projects
• National aggregators
• Thematic aggregators
• People
• Organisations
• Research
• Creative industries
 Framework

7. TASK FORCE
ARCHIVES

8. TF MEETING, 2 DEC 2013

9. MAIN OUTCOMES
 Defining the problems
• Awareness and reach
• Fragmentation and need for coordination
• Confusing aggregation model (domain/local/projects)
• Standardising the standards by example
• Questions around licencing possibilities
 Lowering the barrier
• ‘Get started’ guide
• Dedicated information space for archival institutions on
pro.europeana.eu
• Support desk for first steps (and before)

10. NEXT STEPS
 Continue gathering relevant contents/existing
documentation
• On who is who and who’s doing what (Europeana, Archives
Portal Europe and others)
• On what the benefits are (succcess stories and use cases)
• On what the preparatory steps would be (organisational and
technical)
 Come up with ‘easy guides’
• 1-2 page documents highlighting the main aspects
 Create an ‘archives space’
• One entry point where one can find (all) essential information
• To point interested institutions to
• To be re-used by aggregators, projects etc. when addressing
potential new content providers

11. TASK FORCE
META DATA QUALITY

12. MAIN OUTCOMES
 Outlined some of the key issues preventing providers
submission of high quality metadata
 Identified the gaps in current policy and documentation
 Definition of what metadata means in the context of the task
force
• Consistency of material e.g. submission format/vocabularies

13. NEXT STEPS
 Assess appropriate metrics for metadata quality
 Creation of improved documentation covering:
• Basic metadata guidelines for data providers with increased
explanations
• Metadata check list for providers
• What happens to submitted data
• Standardisation of submission formats
• Recommendations of controlled vocabularies
 Next meeting to be held in January

14. TASK FORCE
UGC IN EUROPEANA

15. MAIN OUTCOMES
 Conducted an online questionnaire within the Europeana
network
 Performed in-depth interviews with stakeholders
 Organized an expert workshop at Digital Heritage 2013
 Main challenges for UGC
• NOT technological, but:
• How to engage audiences?
• What is the surplus value for the stakeholders (users, curators)?
• How to re-use user-generated content?
• How to deal with LEGAL issues (licenses, moderation)?

16. NEXT STEPS
 Turn the questionnaire/interviews/workshop into useable
good practices for the network members
• Structured descriptions of the use cases
• Highlight outcomes and required inputs
• Present means on how to engage users
• Show the requirements of the stakeholders in the different
projects
 Explicitly include crowd-sourcing activities
 Transfer the work of the task-force itself in a more structured
format, e.g. as a project

17. Thank you
If you would like to join or propose a Task Force,
please email: network@europeana.eu