main aspects of the europeana data exchange agreement
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presentation given on 11 november 2011 in Helsinki to a group of Finnish Cultural Heritage professionals.TRANSCRIPT
Paul Keller
11 November 2011, Helsinki
Main Aspects of the Europeana Data Exchange Agreement
The Europeana Licensing framework
Structure of the Europeana Licensing Framework
Definitions: Content, Previews and Metadata
Europeana builds on four layers of information:
Layer #1: Physical objects (books, paintings, etc...)
Layer #2: Digital objects (digital reproductions of #1)
Layer #3: Previews (lower quality versions of #2)
Layer #4: Metadata (descriptve information of object)
Europeana builds on four layers of information:
Layer #1: Physical objects (books, paintings, etc...)
Layer #2: Digital objects (digital reproductions of #1)
Layer #3: Previews (lower quality versions of #2)
Layer #4: Metadata (descriptve information of object)
Europeana builds on four layers of information:
Layer #1: Physical objects (books, paintings, etc...)
Layer #2: Digital objects (digital reproductions of #1)
Layer #3: Previews (lower quality versions of #2)
Layer #4: Metadata (descriptve information of object)
Rights information about content (EDM:rights):
EDM:rights - available rights statements
Public Domain (needs to be indicated if the content is in the Public Domain) All Creative Commons Licenses (can be selected if the provider is the copyright holder and wants to grant certains rights to users) Rights Reserved - Free access (to indicate that the work can be accessed freely on the site of the provider) Rights Reserved - Paid access (to indicate that the work can be accessed conditional on payment on the site of the provider) Rights Resreved - Restricted access (to indicate that there are restrictions: partial availability, only for members, etc) Unknown (to indicate that the rights status of a work is unknown)
Europeana builds on four layers of information:
Layer #1: Physical objects (books, paintings, etc...)
Layer #2: Digital objects (digital reproductions of #1)
Layer #3: Previews (lower quality versions of #2)
Layer #4: Metadata
New Europeana Data Exchange Agreement
Europeana Data Exchange Agreement - provisions on metadata
You need to provide your metadata in line with the Europeana Data ModelYou can decide how much metadata you provideAll metadata provided to Europeana will be published under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication, and can be used free from restrictionsEuropeana will allways give you attribution Europeana will allways publish a link to the Europeana Data Use GuidelinesYou can request Europeana to remove metadata or update it
End user terms: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication:
The CC0 Public Domain Dedication 1.0 Universal has three layers:
Layer #3: a promise not to exercise
Layer #2: a free license without any
Layer #1: a waiver of all rights in the licensed work
Subject matter under CC0 can be used without any restrictions in different jurisdictions, as if it was in the Public Domain
Europeana Data Exchange Agreement - provisions for previews
You are encouraged to to provide Previews together with your metadata (not required) If you provide previews Europeana is entiteled to publish them alongside search results. The previews do not fall under the CC0 waiver, instead they can be used according to the rights statement in edm:rightsEuropeana will publish the URL of the preview via the API as Linked Open Data. If you are not comfortable with this you can opt out of this.
Rights information about previews on Europeana:
Rights information about previews on Europeana:
“With the exception of the previews, all data available on europeana. eu is available free
of restrictions under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication. If you reuse metadata from
Europeana, please follow the Europeana Data Use Guidelines. Previews can only be
used in accordance with the rights information displayed next to them.”
Metadata related to the digitised objects produced by the cultural institutions should be widely and freely available for re-use. (Key reccomendation, p.5)
