EuropeanaLocal: its contribution

Digitisation Seminar IrelandDublin 14th September 2010

Lizzy Komen, EuropeanaBusiness and Project coordinator

Content

• EuropeanaLocal project• Project contribution:

• Content, Best Practices and Aggregation

• Content from Ireland in Europeana• Routes to deliver content to Europeana

A common, online multilingual access point to Europe’s distributed digital heritage

Direct access to 10 million digital objects – film, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers, archival papers

EuropeanaLocal

• One of a family of additional projects funded by EC to further develop Europeana

• Focus is on local and regional museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual institutions:

• Goal: to mobilise and assist the huge numbers of them at local and regional level to make the enormous amount of digital content that they hold interoperable and accessible through Europeana and other service providers

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Basic facts

Best Practice Network (June 2008-2011) Duration 36 months Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded) 1031+ Person-months in total 32 Partners 39 Deliverables

A Convent Garden (1911) by William John Leech (1881-1968) Photo (c) National Gallery of Ireland (c) The Artist's Estate

EuropeanaLocal: Consortium

EuropeanaLocalPartners

FinlandSweden

Norway

Ukraine

Romania

Belarus

Estonia

Latvia

LithuaniaDenmark

Poland

CzechRep

Slovakia

HungaryAustria

Germany

Netherlands

Belgium

France

Italy

Spain

Portugal

UnitedKingdom

Ireland

Iceland

Greece

Bulgaria

Luxembourg

Switzerland

Moldova

Albania

Macedonia

Serbia

Montenegro

Bosniaand

Herzegovina

CroatiaSlovenia

Liechtenstein

Cyprus

Turkey

Content partners

Technical Partners

Scientific Coordinator

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EuropeanaLocal partners: types of organisation

• Europeana Foundation (Europeana) • 1 Ministry of Culture • 2 national libraries (as aggregators of local content)• 2 national museums• 3 national cultural agencies• 5 regional cultural authorities• 7 public libraries • 1 local museum• 1 research foundation• 1 regional digital library provider• 7 private sector organisations

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EuropeanaLocal Objectives

Improve interoperability of digital content sourced by regional/ local libraries, museums, archives

Infrastructure for harvesting and indexing metadata Europe wide network of OAI-PMH repositories/ aggregations

Map existing metadata to Europeana standards (ESE) Data integrated within Europeana prototype service Establish easy processes for making data available

The road ahead for EuropeanaLocal

Rhine release Danube release

EuropeanaLocal: where are we?

• June 2008-2011

• Year 1 was preparation

• Year 2 is implementation: getting content into Europeana

• Year 3 focus will be encouraging more sustained aggregation of local and regional content

Dublin zoo, Phoenix Park, Curtin, Maurice 1935

Window shopping, Dublin, Curtin, Maurice

1940 Dublin street traders,Stephens, Frank

EuropeanaLocal: Content ingestion

As the first to use the “Content Checker” the project has assisted Europeana by:

• Acting as a real world ‘test bed’

• Helping to ensure that the systems and facilities developed by Europeana meet the needs of the organizations contributing content, especially the many thousands at local and regional level

• Feedback from EuropeanaLocal played a key role in helping to define the optimal workflows for a range of different types of provider.

EuropeanaLocal: Content ingestion (2)

• Currently EuropeanaLocal partners continue to populate their repositories, where required

• And working with Europeana to test and ingest their content

• The objective has been reached for the main group of

partners to have their metadata harvested during the first half of 2010 in order to be ready for, and correspond with, the Europeana Rhine release

• A big opportunity to prove value of local and regional content

EuropeanaLocal content live in Europeana from:

• Spain• Norway• UK• Poland• Sweden • Greece• Germany• Slovenia• Slovakia• Bulgaria

• Coming soon from:• Latvia• Portugal

• In 2010• Malta • Cyprus

• France

• Lithuania

• Netherlands

• Belgium

• Ireland

• Czech Republic

• Hungary

• Austria

• Finland

Over 3 million items ingested by summer 2010!

Latvian rural women at work, 1920sThe Museum of Latvian Photography

Cyclist in Tarvastu, Estonia, 1912 Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian National Museum

Gradual, Grzegorz z Wronek, 1627 The Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences

EuropeanaLocal: Aggregation

• Local/regional content must go into aggregations that Europeana will continue to harvest – a manageable number

• Convince other local/regional content providers of the value of getting involved.

• Make local content infrastructure available for harvesting and indexing by Europeana service

• Make content available to other service providers

• Need for viable aggregator business models

What after that?

• EuropeanaLocal a proof of concept regarding the value of local and regionally sourced content

• But...... a short term approach to short term targets

• In fact, a Best Practice Network……

• It is not a sustainable approach; there is no 'EuropeanaLocal repository'

• Action is needed at national level to aggregate local and regional content ...its metadata

• You need digital content first!

EuropeanaLocal: its contribution

• Promoting and enabling the participation of local and regional content holders

• making available millions of digital items from local and regional institutions across Europe

• contributing powerfully to the growth and scope of Europeana• Contributing to understanding and solving interoperability issues

across cultural heritage domains• taking account of the particular needs of local and regional

institutions• Acting as a real world test bed for Europeana's standards, tools

and infrastructures and providing feedback• Encouraging the development of sensible and sustainable levels

of aggregation in each partner country

Irish data in Europeana currently 945,357 items…

…data from

• Irish Manuscripts Commission• National Library of Ireland• Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive• Inniúlacht Cartlainne Meán• www.askaboutireland.ie (Library Council as

EuropeanaLocal project partner)

Routes to deliver content to Europeana

• Useful source of information is Europeana Aggregator Handbook: http://www.group.europeana.eu/web/guest/provide_content

• Contribute:1. via existing aggregator2. as individual institution

Who submits data to Europeana?

Europeana

Individual institutionsAggregators

Projects Institutions

Aggregators are

TEL

BAM

SCRAN

Kultura.hr

EFG APENet

BHL EuropeEUScreen

JudaicaMIMO

Travel

ATHENA

CARARE

HOPE

Metadata Contribution

1. Aggregators

Museums Archives LibrariesAudio-visual

collections

Cross-domain aggregators

Single

Aggregators

Thematic aggregators

2. Individual Institutions & Aggregators

• Europeana Provide Content Form:

http://www.group.europeana.eu/web/guest/providing-content/ • Form analysed by Europeana office

1. Receive Europeana Partner application Form

2. Receive Europeana Data Aggregator/Provider Agreement

3. Receive Europeana Submission Form

What data do I submit to Europeana?

1. Thumbnails1. Thumbnails

2. Metadata2. Metadata

Steps to Provide Content

Thank you for your attention

Lizzy.komen@kb.nl

www.europeanalocal.eu