The document summarizes the EuropeanaConnect project, which aims to enhance access to European digital cultural heritage through Europeana. It will add audio content, develop multilingual capabilities, build semantic representations of data, create mobile and social media access channels, and develop backend infrastructure to support these functions over its 2.5 year duration. The project involves 30 partners from 14 countries and has a budget of €5.6 million, 80% of which is funded by the European Commission.

1. EuropeanaConnect Enhancing User Access to European Digital Heritage Cultural Heritage Online 2009 Florence, 16 December 2009 Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library [email_address] , www.onb.ac.at

4. Europeana Group Arrow Presto Prime Europeana Athena APEnet Biodiversity Heritage Libraries Europe EUScreen European Film Gateway Europeana Local Europeana Travel Musical Instruments Museums Online Judaica Europeana The European Library EuropeanaConnect Europeana v.1.0

5. www.group.europeana.eu

6. Project Partners …

9. What will EuropeanaConnect build?

10. Add the music dimension to Europeana

13. What do users really want?

16. Personas matrix PROFILE 3 ”Jukka” PROFILE 4 ”Maria” PROFILE 7 ”Peter” PROFILE 2 ”Sarah” PROFILE 6 ”William” PROFILE 5 ”Sven” PROFILE 9 ”Julia” Explorative behaviour Navigational behaviour Difficult Search Effortless Search Europeana Personas Catalogue will be available on the EuropeanaConnect website soon

18. Building the Semantic Layer

23. Multilingual Access

26. New Access Channels to Europeana

28. Mock-up of the Spatio-temporal User Interface

30. Adaptive Web Client Dynamically adapts to capabilities of mobile devices Based on JAVA / Spring-MVC, running in Jetty / Tomcat on eConnect server Basic Services Device dependent searching Advanced Services Location aware searching Europeana Database Semantic Layer Mobile Web Browsers Heterogeneous devices and browsers (Opera, Safari, …) Europeana Mobile: System architecture

31. Europeana Mobile Prototype: Start Screen

32. Europeana Mobile Prototype: Search Results Mixed mode Thumbnails and Text Lightweight mode Text only Gallery Mode Thumbnails only

33. Prototype: Location-aware Searching / Details Dynamic Map JavaScript enabled Static Map Plain HTML Details Detailed Information

34. User Generated Content

36. Image Annotations

37. Video Annotations

38. eBooks-on-Demand

40. Back-office Components

41. Bringing metadata into Europeana Museums Archives Libraries Audio Archives Film Archives Broadcast Archives others … ?

42. Bringing metadata into Europeana Museums Archives Libraries Audio Archives Film Archives Broadcast Archives others … APEnet Athena The European Library Europeana Connect EFG EUScreen OAI-PMH Management Infrastructure

45. And now for the legal stuff…

47. More information? Visit www.europeanaconnect.eu

49. [email_address] http:// www.onb.ac.at http:// www.europeanaconnect.eu http:// www.linkedin.com/in/maxkaiser http:// www.slideshare.net/maxkaiser http:// twitter.com/maxkaiser