Europeana, the Commons and CC0

12.12.12 Caring is Sharing, Copenhagen

Vision:

Openly accessible digital cultural heritage will foster the

exchange of ideas and knowledge, lead to a better

mutual understanding of our cultural diversity and

support a thriving knowledge economy in Europe

-Council of Europe 2008-

Aggregated

• 2200+ content

providers

• 142 aggregators

• 24 million objects

Distributed

• Portal

• Mobile

• Tablet

• API

• LOD

Network

• 500 + members

Network

• 500 + members

Breakdown

Galleries: 2

Libraries: 111

Archives: 26

Museums: 60

National Aggs: 22

Publishers: 2

Creative Ind: 5

Research: 78

Ministries: 9

Other: 174

Network

• 500+ members

Breakdown

Galleries: 2

Libraries: 111

Archives: 26

Museums: 60

National Aggs: 22

Publishers: 2

Creative Ind: 5

Research: 78

Ministries: 9

Other: 174

APENET

National Archive

2008-2011

The key to being able to make the switch from Aggregator to

Distributor serving the user wherever they are was changing the

licensing framework

All Europeana metadata

under a CC0 licence

Issue 1: Our interaction with users is still very much ‘push’

Issue 2: in this ‘linear model’, there is not enough sense of shared

ownership and cooperation

Issue 3: we believe in opening up data. Does this leave room for

paid services?

Issue 4: in the current governance structure the ‘users’ take no part

Can we rethink Europeana as a Commons or set of Commons?

We’ve started:

Mutuality

Access

Attribution

Consistency Engagement

European Cultural Commons Principles

Next steps are to apply the

principles to 3 pilots to find out

what works, what doesn’t, what

needs negotiating:

Repository

Core Platform

An infrastructure commons:

3-year project

Europeana

Cloud

Cloud-based

infrastructure for

the storage &

sharing of data &

content

Offering

economies of

scale

With access to

knowledge &

solutions for

sustainability,

licensing

&governance

A Research Commons:

Europeana

Research:

Cross-domain

platform to support

digital scholarship

Emphasis on open

access content,

tools and services

Data from

Europeana but

also content from

willing museum,

library, archive,

audio visual

providers

TEL

researcher

cultural tourist

student

Europeana

Europeana Research

DARIAH

DANS

CESSDA

CLARIN

A Cultural Tourism Commons:

Europeana Creative

Open Culture Labs

• Pilots:

working with cultural

tourism providers

•Content Reuse to

Generate footfall

Knowledge

ROI from sales

Where caring is sharing and the world is a better place

@guardian weekly -photographer: jean baptiste lopez

Jill Cousins

Jill.Cousins@kb.nl

Thank you

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