europeana roadmap and satellite projects (lizzy komen)

Europeana roadmap and satellite projects

Lizzy Komen, Europeana office

Førde, Norway, 19 February 2009

Presentation set up

• Europeana roadmap

• Europeana v1.0 & Satellite projects

• Users & Usability

• Demo

Europeana – Vision

“A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “

European Union Communiqué August 2006

“to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage”

EuropeanaNet (EDLnet)

ArchivesAustrian State ArchivesEuropean ArchiveEuropean Board of National ArchivistsEuropean Branch of ICADirecção-Geral de ArquivosLandesarchiv Baden-WürttembergNational Archives of FinlandFederal Archives of GermanyNational Archives of SwedenNational Archives of the NetherlandsInternational Institute of Social HistoryNational Archives of MaltaAudio-visual collectionsInternational Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Association des Cinèmathéques Europèennes International Federation of Television ArchivesEuropean Broadcasting UnionInstitut national de l'audiovisuelInstitut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique De BeeldbibliotheekCross-domain associationsMICHAEL AISBLMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg ABM-utvikling, NorwayRUNAS, the Danish Council for Development of National Cooperation between Archives, Libraries and Museums Arbeitsgruppe zu europäischen Angelegenheiten für Bibliotheken, Archive und Museen ABM-Centrum, SwedenInstitute for Cultural Memory, Romania Heritage MaltaIstituto per i beni artistici, culturali e naturali - Regione Emilia-Romagna Erfgoed Nederland FAROLibrariesDanish Agency for Libraries and MediaDanish State Library AarhusCatholic University of LeuvenEuropean Bureau of Library, Information & Documentation Associations Ligues des bibliothèques européenes de recherches Consortium of European Research LibrariesState and University Library Göttingen Conference of European National Librarians Cervantes LibraryBiblioteca de CatalunyaNational Authorities on Public Libraries in EuropeNational Library of the NetherlandsCité de la MusiqueFederico Zeri FoundationMuseumsIstituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza RijksmuseumInstitute for Museum Research, Berlin International Council of Museums Europe Natural History MuseumEuropean Museum ForumMuseum of London GroupScience MuseumSlovak National GalleryMurberget Länsmuseet VästernorrlandGermanisches NationalmuseumNational representativesAustria, National Library ofBelgium, Royal Library ofBulgaria, New Bulgarian University Library Cyprus, Ministry of Education and Culture Czech Republic, National Library of theDenmark, Royal Library ofEstonia, National Library ofFinland, National Library ofFrance, National Library ofGermany, National Library ofGreece, Veria Central Public LibraryHungary, National Library ofIceland, National and University Library of Ireland, University College CorkLatvia, National Library ofLiechtenstein, National Library ofLithuania, Vilnius UniversityLuxembourg, National Library ofNorway, National Library ofPoland, National Library ofPortugal, National Library ofSlovakia, National Library ofSlovenia, National Library ofSpain, National Library ofSweden, National Library ofUnited Kingdom, British LibraryOtherCentre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'EuropeAcrossLimitsProject ContributorsBernsteinCITERDELOSDIGMAPDISMARCDRIVEREPsIplusVideo ActiveMultiMatchCross Czech a.s.TrebleCLEFKnowledge Management in Museums ProjectResearch institutionsDigitaal Erfgoed NederlandDigital Lifecycle Management Forum European Commission on Preservation & Access German Social Science Infrastructure Sciences Heriot-Watt University Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - National Technical University of Athens Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Kennisland / KnowledgelandTOPP Consulting GmbHVrije Universiteit AmsterdamInstitute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, University of Ljubljana Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Berlin School of Library and Information Sciences

• Funded by the Commission’s digital libraries initiative under the eContentplus call

• 2-year thematic partnership network

• >100 partners representing:• all EU Member States• related Commission-funded projects• 4 cultural heritage domains:

• audio-visual• archives• museums• Libraries


• Primary aims:

• Bringing together cultural institutions across Europe

• To tackle domain level interoperability issues

• Creating a user defined prototype by November ’08

• Making recommendations for a sustainable service


• Successes to date • Strong network• The prototype gives people free access to over 4 million digital

objects• Multilingual• All sectors represented• Content > 1000 cultural institutions

• Standards being agreed & applied• Enormous publicity• EDL Foundation as governance backbone• Business model published

Europeana v1.0

• Europeana v1.0 (30 months) Co-ordinating the development of a fully operational site

It creates automated work flows for ingestion of content Begins end user marketing Added functionalities, APIs and mobile access to deliver Europeana

content in whatever way the user wants it Develop longer term sustainability Begins February '09 ends July '11

Europeana v1.0

• Primary aims:• Build the network • Push towards aggregation • Disseminate the service to end users• Integrate related projects• Create a sustainable funding model• Europeana v1.0 operational service June 2010

• 10 million items• Deploy most usable levels of multilingual search and retrieval

Europeana v1.0 and related projects

• The universe of Europeana Projects 2009 Current

Europeana v1.0 (www.europeana.eu) EuropeanaLocal (www.EuropeanaLocal.eu) European Film Gateway (www.EuropeanFilmGateway.eu) Athena (www.AthenaEurope.eu) Archives Portal Europe [APEnet] (www.europeanarchivesgateway.eu) PrestoPrime

In Negotiation EuropeanaConnect (June ‘09) BHL-Europe (May ’09) EUScreen EuropeanaTravel MIMO JUDEICA

NL 1 NL 2 NL 3

EDL

National Digital Library

ACE

Film Archive X

Eurbica National Archive 1

MICHAELCENL

Museum X

Archive X

National Archive 2

Film Archive 1

Film Archive 2

Film Archive 3

National Archive 3

Library X

Museum A Archive A Library A

FIAT

Television Archive 1

Television Archive n

IASA

Sound Archive 1

Sound Archive n

ICOM Europe

Museum 1 Museum 2

The European Library

VideoActive

ATHENA

APEnet

EFGACE

Culture.fr

CulturaItalia

BAM

CIMEC, etc.

EuropeanaLocal

BHLMIMO

EuropeanaConnect

Judeica

EuropeanaTravel

EUScreen

v1.0

The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009

Users & Usability

• EuropeanaNet: WG3: Users for Usability:

Recommendations Formulate user requirements Testing

Surveys & testing Europeana Maquette Europeana Prototype

All feeds back into Prototype

Users & Usability

• Europeana v1.0 WG1: Developing the partner and user network Further develop Added functionalities, APIs and mobile access User feedback Review User generated content & provide policy

• EuropeanaConnect Proceed to meet user needs & demands Log-files Define types of users

Thank you

Questions?

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