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Europeana – Wunderkammer of tomorrow
Jill Cousins
Museum & Change III,
Digitisation & Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage
19 February 2009
“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
www.europeana.eu
Europeana.eu –The Vision
150 network members,
Beta version of Europeana.eu
ALL EU countries
ALL sectors represented
Nearly 5 million items
Standards being agreed
Domains talking
publicity
Europeana Now
image Europeana
Aggregator and Distributor of Interoperable
European Culture
Image business model blocks
Business Model Concept
Realising the Value Proposition
Corporate sponsors
Europeana:
the Mutual Incentive Business Model
Image business model market partners
Users
Aggregators and Partners
Other Business Opportunities
Commission & Ministries
Open source development
API’s/Web services
Semantic Operations
New creative uses
Content Aggregation & Processing
Systems,Semantics &
Projects
Europeana Aggregator and Facilitator
Standards & Guidelines
R&D
Purpose:
• to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage.
So the Foundation w ill:
• facilitate formal agreement across Museums, Archives, Audiovisual collections and Libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal.
• provide a legal framew ork for use by the EU for funding purposes and as a springboard for future governance.
EDL Foundation Governance
Commission Funding & Orientation Committee: Commission & Member States
Advisory &
Budgetary rolesHolds legal power &
Reports on finance &
strategy
Executive Committee
Board of Participants
Council of Content Providers & Aggregators
Up to 5
elected
Up to 9
elected
Europeana –financial backing for known projects
Contributions to date:
euros
France 200000 (incl.30K from BnF)
Netherlands 200000
Italy 72500
Finland 30000
Lithuania 18805
Germany 200000 (2009,2010)
Total 721305
Need minimum 760,000, would like 1 million euros
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
EFG
ACE
National Aggregators
Culture.fr,etc
EuropeanaLocal
Trebleclef
PrestoPrime
IMPACT
BHL
MIMO
Europeana
Connect
Judeica
Europeana
Travel
EUScreen
STERNA
v1.0
TELplus
The Europeana Universe of projects 2009
Arrow
Europeana v1.0 February 09 – July 11
• Successor network to EuropeanaNet.
• Turns current prototype into an operational service.
• Europeana v1.0 Aggregator and Distributor
• Creates an API architecture
• Pushes towards aggregation
• End user user marketing for take up and sustainability.
• Longer term financing solutions.
• Glue for projects
• Europeana v1.0 operational service July 2010
Europeana v1.0
The issues and benefit to Museums of Europeana
• Issues:
• Lack of digitised material
• Poor, missing or ambiguous metadata
• Each museum or exhibition is one of a kind
• Benefits:
• Virtual repatriation
• New exhibitions
• New traffic
Competitiveness & Innovation Programme
• THEME 2: DIGITAL LIBRARIES
• Objective 2.1: European Digital Library – Services
• Objective 2.2: European Digital Library – Aggregating digital content in
Europeana
• Objective 2.3: European Digital Library – Digitising content for Europeana
• Objective 2.4: Open access to scientific information
• Objective 2.5: Use of cultural heritage material for education
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm
Types of projects being proposed
Content
• Aggregating Content for Research Libraries
• Archaeology & Architecture
• Digital Stories, User Contributed Content
• Digitisation in themes, Romani and People, Cities, Place
• Space exploration – Galileo. Gagarin, Gemini – Science Museums
• Virtual Prints – Rijksmuseum, British Museum, Prado, Louvre
Tools and Services
• The European Library – TEL Research & Education Widget
• PolarEx
• Commercial Re-Use of Europeana Content – e.g.TomTom
• Educational Re-Use of Europeana Content – Schoolnet
wolfgang mozart
Questions?