2. What we’ll cover
• Introduce Europeana
• #Europeana4Education –
distribution and facilitation
• #Europeana4Education case
studies
• Resources available
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Bokägarmärke, exlibris. 1929, Malmö museer
Sweden. Public Domain
3. Netherlands, Public Domain
1794 - 1795, Rijksmuseum
Adriaan de Lelie
The Art Gallery of Jan
Gildemeester Jansz
WHAT IS EUROPEANA?
4. 53+ million digital records//3.500+ cultural institutions//content from
36 countries//collections available in 22 languages
What is Europeana?
#Europeana4Education – LangOER26 September2016
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5. Who is Europeana for?
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7. Malta, CC0
1607
St. John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
St Jerome
EUROPEANA AND EDUCATION
8. UK, CC BY
Charles Harrison Townse
Bishopsgate Institute, London
1895, Rijksmuseu
Distribution partner:
Integration of digital cultural data in educational partners’ systems and environments
Facilitator:
Help strengthen the relation between education and cultural sector for greater visibility & re-use
Estonia, CC BY-NC-SA
Young Gardeners | Malle Leis
1968 Tartu Art Museum
10. Distribution partners
• Multipliers – key players with well-established
communities of educators in Europe
• Various types: Commercial / non-commercial
(Apple / EUN)
• Formal / informal education (EUN / EUROCLIO/
InventingEurope / EMMA)
• General / specialized (EUN / EUROCLIO/
InventingEurope)
Fransch voor de lagere school. ±1922, Museon
The Netherlands, CC BY
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12. Inventing Europe
Enriching research –
“what’s like this?”
14 learning materials
•2 lecture aids
•12 assignments
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16. Facilitation
• Policy level change: access to
digitized works in the public domain
• New partnerships
• Promoting existing initiatives using
Europeana content in education
#Europeana4Education
• Seven principles to unlock
Europeana content for use in
education [Mai 1968]. Education permanente. Atelier populaire, ex Ecole des
Beaux arts
1968, France | Public Domain
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21. • Our content is available in 31 languages
• 12 languages used in our exhibitions
• 1914-18 also has content in Bosnian,
Slovakian, Czech and Serbian
Trollen zijn het lievelingsspeelgoed van kinderen van de Nutsschool in Den Bosch|
Felix Janssens
1993, Stadsarchief 'S-Hertogenbosch
Netherlands, CC BY-SA
Europeana and language
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23. Quality
• Focus on quality of Tier 2,
3 and 4 content
• Prioritising openly licensed
content
• Development of a Content
Strategy
• More thematic collections
focusing on reusable
materials
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25. Entity API
• Enriching the search
experience
• Entity autosuggest
available by end of this
year
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26. Entity API
• An entity page on
Collections for topics,
people and places
• Browse entity pages
• Links to search results
• On the main portal, a
knowledge card with
detailed information
about the entity
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27. 21 October 2015
Thank you - stay in touch!
Nicole.mcneilly@europeana.eu
@EuropeanaLabs @NicoleMcNeilly
Labs.europeana.eu
Notes de l'éditeur
Quick intro Europeana – most of the audience know who we are, but helpful to give the context of the organisation and our aims
Introduce Europeana’s two roles with regards to education - distribution and facilitation
Success of some of Europeana’s education partnerships
Discuss the resources available on Europeana, including the content, APIs, language offer and an API in development
First of all, what is Europeana?
We are a digital platform of more than 53m digital records in multiple languages and formats from Europe’s galleries, museums, libraries and archives.
A touchpoint between cultural heritage organisations and professional and amateur culture lovers alike
A thought and practice leader – setting and advocating new standards in tech and cultural philosophy
A network of cultural heritage and technology professionals, working together for mutual benefit
A suite of websites to help people make the most of Europeana’s content and tools
A provider of open source software and tools for contributing and making use of cultural content
Europeana is also a network formed of individuals representing cultural heritage organisations and more from across Europe. We work to shape good practice in the field of digital cultural heritage, and Europeana’s core strength are our 1500+ network members who share and shape our goals.
Our three target audiences – professionals, those who digitize and share collections, are catered for on Pro – end users for who we’re building the ultimate library, museum and archive of Europe, who we attract to our collections through social media, wikipedia and education – and our creative audience, our re-users – the developers and entrepreneurs, educators who use our content and API for application in multiple areas – whether from education to tourism to creative industries - we cater for them on Labs.
For our creative audience we promote guidance on how to use our APIs, run challenge to encourage re-use, promote the partnerships we are working in our three core areas of tourism, education and cultural industries. This is the responsibility of Europeana Labs and the re-use team.
But education is one of the most important areas for us.
All partners can help us reach to their own big communities and end-users in the most efficient way; they help us increase faster our visibility and re-use in classrooms and for lifelong learning.
EUN, Euroeclio and inventing Europe, partnerships which I’ll introduce now, all use the Europeana API to integrate content into their platforms.
The Learning Resource Exchange is one way we aim to bring digital cultural heritage into education. The resource is led by EUN and enables European primary and secondary school teachers to find quality OERs from many different countries and providers. 339,000+ OERs that travel well across languages and national borders, adding to education provision at a national level. Now there are five times as much Europeana content as there was in March this year; with methods in place to automate the inclusion of new content, this is a growing resource.
European Digital Museum for Science and Technology, organised in 6 virtual exhibitions and 40 virtual tours on various topicsIt is a collaborative online platform developed by Foundation for the History of Technology that connects the digital collections of over 13 cultural and science heritage partners from across Europe, including Europeana, with the research results from about 300 scholars from Europe and North America who are active in the Tensions of Europe Research Network.
It includes 14 learning materials using Europeana content, consisting of two lecture aids and 12 assignments.
Historiana is an online educational tool that offers students multi-perspective, cross-border and comparative historical sources to supplement their national history textbooks. It features material from Europeana and provides access to Europeana Collections via a special Search and Select tool. We’ve recently collaborated to develop the collections on some of history’s most infamous figures – including Stalin, Hitler, Joan of Arc and Queen Elizabeth. The site makes it simple to find sources on some of the most important themes for history educators that, until now, have been more challenging to access – either due to copyright, language, or even just having the time.
Projet d'une société italienne, qui fait partie des gagnants de l'Europeana Challenge deux mille seize (2016) - cette application permet à des enfants entre 5 et 10 ans d'apprendre l'art tout en s'amusant
FACES est soutenu par Europeana. Il s'agit d'un jeu à partir de portraits. Parmi la multitude de tableaux réunis par Europeana, nous avons sélectionné 5 portraits.
Les enfants effectueront des tâches simples dans une galerie virtuelle, chacune des tâches étant dédiée à un aspect spécifique de l'observation :
– Vertumnus (Kaiser Rudolf II) par Giuseppe Arcimboldo : pour apprendre à observer les détails et percevoir l'œuvre dans son ensemble ;
– Alice par Modigliani : pour appréhender les volumes et les formes ;
– L'Homme à la clarinette par Pablo Picasso : pour comprendre comment les formes peuvent être interprétées différemment ;
– Autoportrait par Vincent Van Gogh : pour prêter attention aux couleurs et à leur composition ;
– La Jeune Fille à la perle par Vermeer : pour comprendre qu'il y a un sens dans chaque élément et une histoire derrière le tableau.
À la fin des 5 jeux, les enfants obtiennent un diplôme d'explorateur d’art ainsi qu'un ensemble d'outils virtuels, et ils sont encouragés à visiter des musées dans la vraie vie.
Cette application a été conçue par : Cinzia Franceschini pour les illustrations, Rogerio Carvalho Rossi pour la conception globale, Brian Ayres pour la voix anglaise, Dylan Ayres pour la voix italienne, Fabio Mosca pour le développement.
We’ve talked about our distribution role and those we partner with and the initiatives we organise that further the use of Europeana in formal and informal education. Now I’ll introduce our second role, which is to facilitate the increased use of Europeana content in education – whether by measures we take ourselves (including technical advancements), by advocacy and policy change or partnerships.
How do we facilitate and increase the use of Europeana content in education?
New partnerships with those who want to use Europeana content in education – which is why we’re here!
Policy level change: access to digitized works in the public domain. You can see, for example, our response to the recent publication of the European Commission’s copyright plans.
Promoting existing initiatives using Europeana content in education #Europeana4Education – for example, the Learning Resource Exchange or Inventing Europe featuring as case studies on our website.
Seven principles to unlock Europeana content for use in education – these are on our website and will guide cultural heritage organisations to make their content available in the best possible ways so that it is suitable for educational re-use. This includes relevance and open access.
Education is one of our key re-use communities and improvements we’re making across Europeana has the potential to drive the use of Europeana’s content in education.
53m+ items, which includes image – 29m – text – 22m – video – over 1m – sound – over half a million and growing – and 3D objects, 24,000+. Almost 40% of which is free to re-use.
You can find anything from books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers, paintings, maps, drawings, photographs, music, spoken word, radio broadcasts, film, newsreels, television, curated exhibitions.
One of the best ways to find high quality material is to browse our Collections. Currently we have Art History and Music, but this will grow soon to include photography, fashion and newspapers, and more in the longer term. This content focuses on the best of what Europeana has to offer in each category, and we have dedicated managers for each collection whose role is to develop its quality offer.
What does high quality data look like?
This is an example of some of the richest data we offer. You have a full description, good information about the creator, description of the type of work and date of creation. Quality links to similar items.
We’re liked as a re-use platform because of our clear facet search for licensing conditions. But there is a lot more we can do to facilitate the re-use of cultural heritage content in education.
So, our focus is on quality of content over quantity. Of the 53m plus million items we have on our platform, we estimate that 10million are of the right quality to be used in educational apps.
Our focus on quality runs through all our education partnerships – making sure we have the best content available for re-users and end-users.
We have a mission to focus on the quality of content provided through Tiers 2, 3 and 4 our of publishing framework ensuring best re-use potential. In particular, we are prioritising openly licensed content (tiers 3 and 4) and content that is available for re-use – educators need it!
As part of our work with cultural organisations across Europe and beyond, we continue to advocate and educate for the provision of openly licensed digital cultural heritage where possible.
We’re working on a content strategy that will help us improve the Europeana platform – including depublishing material that doesn’t fit our quality guidelines (for example, where there is insufficient or bad metadata).
We’re building our Thematic Collections – expanding to include fashion, Newspapers, Photographs, Europeana Transcribe and more.
Main API we use is the REST API but we have four available, including the Annotations API that users can use to tag content. Free to register, only need an email – and it’s easy as well.
The entity API will improve and enrich the search experience and offer new ways for users to discover Europeana's content (and discover all that good data) in our growing collections. It will improve search functions by suggesting related contextual information with the outcome of improving the search experience for users. Entity autosuggest should be available by the end of this year.
Some features of the entity API, as we’re still working and testing it – it’s purpose to improve and enrich the search experience and offer new ways for users to discover Europeana's content on our Collections sites. This example is a entity page on one of our collections, Music
You’ll be able to browse these and find links to search results.
On the Europeana platform you’ll be able to access a knowledge card with detailed information about the entity, again with links and information.
Note – all these screenshots are wireframes and are not final in any way.
On that note of developments to come, please remember two things: we are here because we want to know how you want to use Europeana content in education and to talk about potential partnership, so please, come and talk to me over the next days and stay in touch. We want to know how our platform can be used to encourage the integration of Europeana content in resources that support learning in lesser-used languages.
Finally, if you haven’t already, we know that Europeana’s content has the potential to inspire so please, look at our platform and be inspired by the educational value of Europeana’s offer!