Europeana: Europe's flagship web portal, making Europe's cultural heritage accessible to the world
1. Europeana is Europe’s flagship web
portal, making Europe’s cultural
heritage accessible to the world.
co-funded by the European Commission
2. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • Background to EU funding – what is
covers, reason for europeana –
• Which content is Europeana seeking Google-action. Digital lilbraries / web
to present? portal
• What is the IPR position? • the portal which delivers access to
Europe’s cultural and scientific
• What are the benefits of allowing heritage
access to my content? • delivers services - licensing of
• Is there funding? copyright materials, e-books-on-
demand, multilingual searching, hand-
• How does a content owner proceed? held devices
• Brief overview of the DISMARC • presents existing digital content in new
platform context – i.e. semantic tagging
(covered by other speakers)
• EuropeanaConnect -relationship to
Europeana - focus on the Audio
Aggregation WP
3. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • the portal which delivers access to
• Which content is Europeana seeking Europe’s cultural and scientific
to present? heritage
• What is the IPR position? • delivers services - licensing of
• What are the benefits of allowing copyright materials, e-books-on-
access to my content? demand, multilingual searching,
hand-held devices
• Is there funding?
• presents existing digital content in
• How does a content owner proceed?
new context – i.e. semantic
• Brief overview of the DISMARC tagging (covered by other
platform speakers)
• EuropeanaConnect -relationship to
Europeana - focus on the Audio
Aggregation WP
4. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • cultural heritage material
• What kind of audio content is • European-owned
Europeana seeking to present? • music audio, music-related audio
• What is the IPR position? and non-audio artefacts
• What are the benefits of allowing • thematic approach
access to my content?
• Is there funding?
• How does a content owner
proceed?
• Brief overview of the DISMARC
platform
5. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • content should be either in public
• Which content is Europeana domain, wholly owned or used
seeking to present? under a self-determined Creative
• What is the IPR position? Commons license
http://creativecommons.org/
• What are the benefits of allowing
access to my content? • ownership remains with original
owner
• Is there funding?
• Europeana will offer online tools
• How does a content owner and licenses
proceed?
• www.dismarc.eu/resources/
• Brief overview of the DISMARC pdf/Dismarc_Guide_to_Copyright_
platform for_Archives.pdf
• 30 second extracts rather than
original objects
6. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • increased exposure of content,
• Which content is Europeana enhanced networking possibilities,
seeking to present? increased national & international
• What is the IPR position? funding opportunities
• What are the benefits of allowing
access to my content? • online, customisable archive at no
• Is there funding? cost
• How does a content owner
proceed?
• Brief overview of the DISMARC
platform
7. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • no funds available to cover costs,
• Which content is Europeana possible financial assistance to
seeking to present? cover preparatory work
• What is the IPR position? • other current EU digitisation
• What are the benefits of allowing initiatives -
access to my content? http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/r
elated-projects.php
• Is there funding?
• How does a content owner
proceed?
• Brief overview of the DISMARC
platform
8. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • Step 1: Send test data
• Which content is Europeana
seeking to present?
• IPR issues?
• What are the benefits of allowing
access to my content?
• Is there funding?
• How does a content owner
proceed?
• Brief overview of the DISMARC
platform
9. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • Step 2:
• Which content is Europeana Data from various sources need to
seeking to present? be mapped to a common metadata
• IPR issues? profile
• What are the benefits of allowing
access to my content? ESE v3.2
• Is there funding? (Europeana Semantic Elements)
• How does a content owner
proceed?
• Brief overview of the DISMARC
platform
10. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • Step 3:
• Which content is Europeana Enter collection description
seeking to present?
• IPR issues? • Step 4:
• What are the benefits of allowing Evaluate test import at
access to my content? the Test portal
• Is there funding?
• How does a content owner • Step 5:
proceed? Inform on classifications/word lists
• Brief overview of the DISMARC used – crosswalk to Europeana
platform vocabularies/themes
(together with the WP6 team)
11. Overview…
• What is Europeana? • Step 6:
• Which content is Europeana If no own audio server > then
seeking to present? upload/send audio files
• IPR issues?
• What are the benefits of allowing • Step 7:
access to my content? Data is imported to
• Is there funding? audio aggregation platform
• How does a content owner
proceed? • Step 8:
• Brief overview of the DISMARC Information on update procedure
platform (FTP, Email, OAI etc.)
• Step 9:
Data is harvested by Europeana
13. Overview… www.dismarc.eu
• What is Europeana?
• Which content is Europeana
seeking to present?
• IPR issues?
• What are the benefits of allowing
access to my content?
• Is there funding?
• How does a content owner
proceed?
• Brief overview of the DISMARC
platform
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15. Europeana Network
OAI: www.openarchives.org
Europeana
Harvester Search User
Metadata
OAI
OAI
Audio Digital Objects
Aggregation (Audios) www.dismarc-
audio.org
Provider
Other Providers OAI
Harvester
FTP
FTP,
EMail
Subproviders
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20. Contact details…
General: audio@europeanaconnect.eu
Technical issues - Gerda Koch - email: kochg@ait.co.at
Administration issues - Martin Gordon - email: martin.gordon@rbb-
online.de
Europeana press office - Jon Purday - email: jonathan.purday@kb.nl
LINKS:
www.europeana.eu - home of the European digital library
www.europeanaconnect.eu - EuropeanaConnect project website
www.dismarc.eu - aggregation/content management platform
www.dismarc.org/info - info about the aggregation platform
