TASK FORCE MEETINGS

Europeana Network Annual General Meeting, December 2nd 2013

TASK FORCE

PPP

MAIN OUTCOMES

Scope for PPP should be more focused on key issues:

• The value chain

• From digitisation to re-use of data/content and back

• Premium services and enrichment of data

• The business model

• The PAIN and GAIN

• The value proposition

• This is the next phase

NEXT STEPS

To pull in resources from:

• Projects

• National aggregators

• Thematic aggregators

• People

• Organisations

• Research

• Creative industries

Framework

TASK FORCE

ARCHIVES

TF MEETING, 2 DEC 2013

MAIN OUTCOMES Defining the problems

• Awareness and reach

• Fragmentation and need for coordination

• Confusing aggregation model (domain/local/projects)

• Standardising the standards by example

• Questions around licencing possibilities

Lowering the barrier

• ‘Get started’ guide

• Dedicated information space for archival institutions on pro.europeana.eu

• Support desk for first steps (and before)

NEXT STEPS Continue gathering relevant contents/existing documentation

• On who is who and who’s doing what (Europeana, Archives Portal Europe and others)

• On what the benefits are (succcess stories and use cases)

• On what the preparatory steps would be (organisational and technical)

Come up with ‘easy guides’

• 1-2 page documents highlighting the main aspects

Create an ‘archives space’

• One entry point where one can find (all) essential information

• To point interested institutions to

• To be re-used by aggregators, projects etc. when addressing potential new content providers

TASK FORCE

META DATA QUALITY

MAIN OUTCOMES

Outlined some of the key issues preventing providers submission of high quality metadata

Identified the gaps in current policy and documentation

Definition of what metadata means in the context of the task force

• Consistency of material e.g. submission format/vocabularies

NEXT STEPS

Assess appropriate metrics for metadata quality

Creation of improved documentation covering:

• Basic metadata guidelines for data providers with increased explanations

• Metadata check list for providers

• What happens to submitted data

• Standardisation of submission formats

• Recommendations of controlled vocabularies

Next meeting to be held in January

TASK FORCE

UGC IN EUROPEANA

MAIN OUTCOMES

Conducted an online questionnaire within the Europeana network

Performed in-depth interviews with stakeholders

Organized an expert workshop at Digital Heritage 2013

Main challenges for UGC

• NOT technological, but:

• How to engage audiences?

• What is the surplus value for the stakeholders (users, curators)?

• How to re-use user-generated content?

• How to deal with LEGAL issues (licenses, moderation)?

NEXT STEPS

Turn the questionnaire/interviews/workshop into useable good practices for the network members

• Structured descriptions of the use cases

• Highlight outcomes and required inputs

• Present means on how to engage users

• Show the requirements of the stakeholders in the different projects

Explicitly include crowd-sourcing activities

Transfer the work of the task-force itself in a more structured format, e.g. as a project

Thank youIf you would like to join or propose a Task Force,

please email: network@europeana.eu