My talk about Europeana at the Festival of Digital Heritage in Zagreb in April 2014. It starts with the current situation of the Europeana project, and our plans for the coming years.

1. Bringing culture to all - Together
!An introduction to Europeana
Joris Pekel
Varna, Croatia 11/04/2014@jpekel

2. Content
à What is Europeana?
à Where are we now?
à Where are we going?
à Why join Europeana?
à How to join Europeana?
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3. What is Europeana
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4. What is Europeana
à Found in 2005
à Launch in 2008
à “Access to all of Europe’s heritage”
à European Identity
à Bring culture together and give access from one point
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5. Europeana’s vision and mission
àEuropeana is a catalyst for change in the
world of cultural heritage.
àOur mission: The Europeana Foundation
and its Network create new ways for
people to engage with their cultural history,
whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure.
àOur vision: We believe in making cultural
heritage openly accessible in a digital way,
to promote the exchange of ideas and
information. This helps us all to
understand our cultural diversity better and
contributes to a thriving knowledge
economy.
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6. à 30m records from 2,300
European galleries,
museums, archives and
libraries
à Books, newspapers,
journals, letters, diaries,
archival papers
à Paintings, maps,
drawings, photographs
à Music, spoken word,
radio broadcasts
à Film, newsreels,
television
à Curated exhibitions
à 31 languages
Where are we now?

7. 6
Layer #1: Digital objects (on the site of the provider)!
Layer #2: Previews (lower quality versions of #1) !
Layer #3: Metadata (descriptive object information)!
EDM:rights!
Preview & Digital Objects are licensed as
described in EDM: rights !
CCO!
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8. Who submits data to Europeana?
Domain Aggregators National initiatives
Audiovisual
collections
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
e.g. Musées
Lausannois
e.g.
Culture
Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The
European
Library
e.g. APEX
e.g. EUScreen,
European Film
Gateway
e.g. Judaica Europeana,
Europeana Fashion

9. Shaping the Europeana cultural landscape
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10. Shaping the Europeana cultural landscape
à Lots of work behind the scenes
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11. Shaping the Europeana cultural landscape
à Lots of work behind the scenes
à Europeana Data Model
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12. Shaping the Europeana cultural landscape
à Lots of work behind the scenes
à Europeana Data Model
à All metadata available without any restrictions (CC0)
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13. Shaping the Europeana cultural landscape
à Lots of work behind the scenes
à Europeana Data Model
à All metadata available without any restrictions (CC0)
à User driven metadata creation
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14. Shaping the Europeana cultural landscape
à Lots of work behind the scenes
à Europeana Data Model
à All metadata available without any restrictions (CC0)
à User driven metadata creation
à Connecting the sector
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15. Where are we now
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16. Where are we now
!
à Europeana is 5 years old now
à Not there yet…
à Quality over quantity
à Copyright a big blocker
à Portal just one representation of Europeana
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17. Some context…
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18. Some context…
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à 2300 institutions

19. Some context…
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à 2300 institutions
à 60.000 in total in Europe

20. Some context…
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à 2300 institutions
à 60.000 in total in Europe
à 7% of all material digitised

21. Some context…
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à 2300 institutions
à 60.000 in total in Europe
à 7% of all material digitised

22. Where are we going?
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23. Where are we going?
à Forward to 2020
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24. Where are we going?
à Forward to 2020
à Europeana as a digital infrastructure
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25. Where are we going?
à Forward to 2020
à Europeana as a digital infrastructure
à Portal to Platform
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26. Where are we going?
à Forward to 2020
à Europeana as a digital infrastructure
à Portal to Platform
à Get institutions ready for the web
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27. Where are we going?
à Forward to 2020
à Europeana as a digital infrastructure
à Portal to Platform
à Get institutions ready for the web
à Connect de sector with other industries
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28. Where are we going?
à Forward to 2020
à Europeana as a digital infrastructure
à Portal to Platform
à Get institutions ready for the web
à Connect de sector with other industries
à Allow others to work with your data - where possible
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29. Why join Europeana?
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30. Why join Europeana?
à Public mission
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31. Why join Europeana?
à Public mission
à Help and expertise
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32. Why join Europeana?
à Public mission
à Help and expertise
à Open source tools
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33. Why join Europeana?
à Public mission
à Help and expertise
à Open source tools
à Europeana Network & Professional platform
@jpekel

34. Public Mission
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"Enable access to everyone who wants to do research"
- British Library, Our Mission and 2020 Vision
!
"Our core values are: accessibility, sustainability, innovation and cooperation."
-National Library of the Netherlands, Our Mission and Vision
!
"To provide diverse audiences with the best quality experience and optimum
access to our collections, physically and digitally."
- the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mission and Objectives
!
"The Federal Archives have the legal responsibility of permanently preserving
the federal archival documents and making them available for use."
- German Federal Archives - Responsibilities
!
The National Gallery of Denmark is Denmark’s premier museum of art. Through
Accessibility, education, and exhibition
- Danish National Gallery - Mission

35. Public Mission
@jpekel
à Put your material where the users are
!

36. Public Mission
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37. Connect and Contextualise

38. Help & Expertise
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39. Help & Expertise
à Advice and assist on data modelling
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40. Help & Expertise
à Advice and assist on data modelling
à Documentation
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41. Help & Expertise
à Advice and assist on data modelling
à Documentation
à Consult on copyright issues and how to pick the right license
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42. Help & Expertise
à Advice and assist on data modelling
à Documentation
à Consult on copyright issues and how to pick the right license
à Usage metrics
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43. @jpekel

44. Open Source Tools
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45. Open Source Tools
à Metadata mapping tools
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46. Open Source Tools
à Metadata mapping tools
à Data enrichment
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47. Open Source Tools
à Metadata mapping tools
à Data enrichment
à Upload to Wikimedia Commons with GLAMwiki Toolset
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48. Europeana Network
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49. Europeana Network
à Connect with industry professionals to solve commons
issues, look for funding opportunities, find project partners
and much more
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50. Europeana Network
à Connect with industry professionals to solve commons
issues, look for funding opportunities, find project partners
and much more
à Not only representatives from memory institutions, but also
creative industries, (history) education, tourism and more
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51. We can do a lot, but…
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52. We can do a lot, but…
à Output only as good as its input
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53. We can do a lot, but…
à Output only as good as its input
à Remember who your users are
@jpekel

54. We can do a lot, but…
à Output only as good as its input
à Remember who your users are
à Higher quality is higher visibility & usability
@jpekel

55. We can do a lot, but…
à Output only as good as its input
à Remember who your users are
à Higher quality is higher visibility & usability
à Open content brings a ton of new possibilities
@jpekel

56. We can do a lot, but…
à Output only as good as its input
à Remember who your users are
à Higher quality is higher visibility & usability
à Open content brings a ton of new possibilities
à Quality over Quantity
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57. How to join Europeana?
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58. How to join Europeana?
à Get in touch with kultura.hr
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59. How to join Europeana?
à Get in touch with kultura.hr
à Join the Network on pro.europeana.eu/network
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60. More questions?
@jpekel
?

61. Get in touch!
Joris Pekel
Joris.pekel@europeana.eu
@jpekel