future library unconference 2013 - rob davies
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Europeana Awareness Best Practice Network
Creating a buzz around Europeana
www.europeana.eu
Engage
publicise Europeana to users, policy makers, politicians and cultural heritage organisations in every Member State
promote its use by a broad public for a variety of purposes engage users via User Generated Content, digital stories and social networking
Facilitate
• Europeana Awareness will develop new partnerships with key sectors which are currently underexploited by Europeana:
– public libraries
– local archival groups
– broadcasters
– tourism
– open culture re-users
Distribute
• Commitment to open culture and re-use
• New distribution channels for Europeana content working with the tourism sector, education, family history services, broadcasters
Aggregate
• 30 million CH items now indexed by Europeana
• Build an aggregation ecosystem across Europe
• Improve metadata quality
• Represent diversity of our cultural heritage
• Local institutions are important – including Public
Libraries!
– Europeana Local, LoCloud
Build the trusted source
for cultural heritage.
Build the trusted source
for cultural heritage.
Licensing Framework
The Europeana Awareness Public Libraries Network
• Europeana is recruiting
leading public libraries across Europe to join the Europeana Public Libraries Network
• 76 public libraries from 31 countries are already members
• we would like to invite other public libraries to join us
Aim of the Europeana Awareness PL Network
• strengthen Europeana’s engagement with public libraries all over Europe, by developing productive partnerships which: – support public libraries in the digital era
– enable users to interact with the vast quantity of high quality, digital content available through Europeana as part of their own services;
– increase awareness of the Europeana initiative, among public library users and professionals
Benefits
• What’s in it for me?
• What’s in it for my library?
Benefits of joining the PL Network
• networking opportunities and easier cooperation with leading public libraries across Europe
• access to Europeana’s technical expertise and that of the wider Europeana network
– an open forum for experts across Europe: content providers, aggregators, technical, legal and strategic knowledge from the cultural heritage sector and creative industries
Activities
• Member libraries invited to pilot online tools, enabling users to access, use or contribute to Europeana – Widgets – APIs – Digital story telling and content collection platform
• Member libraries in Greece (and elsewhere) will take part in
the Europeana thematic campaigns such as 1914-1918 – helping collect User Generated Content – Memory Hubs
Together we can reach our
goal!
