21-22 February 2017, Europeana Impact – A working group proposal

1. Supporting Europeana GLAM Time Machine FET Flagship
Europeana Impact – A working group proposal
George Homs
Europeana Members Council – The Hague, February 21-22, 2017

2.  Consortium proposal to EU
 Future & Emerging Technologies
 Horizon 2020 Working Programme
 FET Flagships
 “Science-driven, large-scale, multidisciplinary research
initiatives oriented towards a unifying goal, aiming at
transformational impacts with substantial benefits for
European competitiveness and for society”
 Typical duration: 10 years
 Funding: up to € 1 billion
What is it about?
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
Time
Machine
FET
Flagship

3. Rationale behind Time Machine
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
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Today
Future
Past
21st century
20th century
Industrial
Revolution
Enlightenment
Renaissance
Middle Ages
Antiquity
Digital information
DigitizationDigitization
SimulationSimulation

4.  Driven by the Digital Humanities
 Heritage = data
 Big Data from the past
 4D digitisation : Time
 Mapping European history
 Leveraging the Venice Time Machine
 80 kilometres of archives about Venice
 Project launched in 2012
 Headed by EPFL and the University Ca’Foscari
Key take-aways
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship

5.  Consortium
 80+ partners in 23 countries (to date)
 European and national programs
 Institutional partners (archives, libraries, DH centres…)
 Timeline
 Autumn 2017 : Call for proposals
 Late 2017 : pre-selection + call/funding for detailed proposals
 Autumn 2018 : Final selection
Status
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
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6.  Increased legitimacy for digitisation
 It is more than access and presentation
 Connecting collections
 Pooling “big data of the past”
 Interdisciplinarity
 Expand from “culture” to humanities as a whole
 Outreach
 Encouraging creative re-use of heritage in society
What’s in it for us?
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship

7. What can we do – and why?
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
Define
IMPACT
Identify
CHANNE
LS
Support
COALITI
ON
What is it?
Can we quantify?
Who are stakeholders?
What do they need?
How can we facilitate?
Encourage cooperation?

8.  Permanent “Impact” Working Group
 Impact – Channels - Coalition
 Serving GLAMs, Europeana, Time Machine – in one go
 Meets the Europeana business plan goals
 Outcomes
 Conceptual presentation of Impact
 Build-out of inventory of practical use cases
 Facilitate dialogue and partnering through ENA
 Confirm role of ENA as a representative body
Proposition
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
Driving the
digitised
heritage
ecosystem