About Europeana www.europeana.eu

Olaf Janssen

APEnet General Assembly,

Lund, 12th October 2009

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Background….. A bit of history

• EC funding projects that promote Since the 1990s

interoperability of European information

• Google’s library partnerships announced December 2004

• Letter from 6 Heads of State to President of EC April 2005

• The Commission’s Directorate for Information Society September 2005

and Media launches Digital Libraries Initiative

with a clear aim to build the European Digital Library

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European Digital Library - Vision

“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 of Europe online. – European Commission 2006

‘A unique resource for Europe's distributed cultural heritage… ensuring a common access to Europe's libraries, archives and museums.’Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Information Society Directorate, European Commission

‘ Europeana.eu enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.’

Mission of Europeana, 2008

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Europeana Prototype - achievements

Europeana Prototype www.europeana.eu

Launched in Brussels in Nov 2008:

• 4,6 million objects• Content of more than 1000 CH institutions• All EU-countries, cross-domain

• Multilingual interface in all major European languagues• Basic and advanced search• Faceted search on who, what, where, when• Timeline browsing

DEMO !

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Search demo

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Europeana is bringing users to

providing institution!

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end of search demo

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Content analysis

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Europeana Prototype – Content per country

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Europeana Prototype – Content per type

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Europeana Prototype – Content per provider

Archives are underrepresented

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APEnet, Europeana &

Group of Projects

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Athena

Biodiversity HeritageLibraries Europe

EUScreen

EuropeanFilmGateway

EuropeanaLocal

EuropeanaTravel

Musical Inst.Museums Online

Judaica Europeana

The European Library

EuropeanaConnect

Europeana v.1.0

Europeana Group of projects - overview

ArrowPrestoPrime

Europeana

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• Share knowledge & expertise across projects – knowledge base

• Collaborate on difficult areas – IPR, technical & multi-lingual issues

• Avoid (or at least streamline, minimize) duplication of efforts across projects

• Wider channels for dissemination of project results Communications Group

www.group.europeana.eu

Europeana Group of projects – advantages for APEnet

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www.group.europeana.eu

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Advantages of including APEnet content in Europeana

For the APEnet archives• Extra route to holdings & services of archives • Increased visibility of archives on the web• Drive up usage of archives• Political – European CH institutes operate as one force,

increased networking, easier funding

For their users• Allow for cross-domain object searching• Serendipious resource discovery• Access to native resources held in other countries

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Development of Europeana in next 2 years

• Currently : Europeana Prototype – until July 2010

• Europeana Version1 creates fully operational service

2009 2010 2011Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

UOPEANA V1.0

Jan 2009

July 2010 Rhine

- 10M objects- Back-end processes

April 2011 Danube

- Content- Front-end

Dec 2011

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What can APEnet do for Europeana?

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Europeana needs APEnet (1/2)

1) Contribute archival content to Europeana Build APEnet portalTask3.3 DoW: “Objective is that all digitized resources of the APEnet gateway are also searchable through Europeana” Danube feasible?

2) Actively participate in discussion and testing • Current conceptual discussion on developing Europeana

Data Model via Wiki on the EuropeanaV1 Collaboratory• EuropeanaV1 mailing list WP3PARTICIPANTS@NIC.SURFNET.NL

(on interoperability and functionality)• EDM prototyping phase between Oct09 and Jul10

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Europeana needs APEnet (2/2)

3) Sharing archival expertise of APEnet to help other projects in the Europeana Group

BHL-Europe and other projects also deals with hierarchical and contextual display of objects cross fertilization

WP3 – Wim van Dongen

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Questions ?

Olaf.Janssen@kb.nl