Presentation by Jill Cousins on 10 January 2013 at the House of European History, Brussels

1. Europeana
10.01.13 House of European History, Brussels

3. Europe’s
digital library,
museum and
archive
Where?
At the portal on your mobile or tablet,
on Facebook, Pinterest and Wikipedia
and using our API, in special interest
sites such as Europeana Fashion or
anywhere online
Why?
So people understand and celebrate
Europe’s cultural diversity, and are able
to use this vast resource to generate
new ideas and fuel
creative enterprise
Who?
Everyone with an interest in
history and culture to use for
their personal interest, for
learning or for work
What?
We put people in touch
with their cultural history
in a 21st
century way
We unite 24 million digitised books,
paintings, manuscripts, letters, films
and audio held by 2,500 memory
institutions from every EU country
We have 13,000
Facebook followers
For the digital generation,
if it’s online, it exists
Our API can be added to
anybody’s website – 30 have
already installed it; 500 have
signed up for it
Software developers and apps
designers from learning, tourism
and the games sector are working
with us to create innovative services
A PhD student in France is
working on a book using
soldiers’ letters and diaries
she has found on Europeana
We hold collection days to digitise
family stories on subjects such WW1
and 1989 to connect them to their
wider European history
A local historian is tracing
information about her
village in Slovenia