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EURO-Photo “Disclosing the European Library on

common visual historical heritage”

-Project overview: objectives, activities,

experience and sustainability -

“Programma Competitività ed innovazione: il VI bando ICT Policy Support e le prospettive future”

Roma 13 gennaio 2012

EURO-Photo Project: basic information

Participant Country

(Co-ordinator) Italy

ANP Netherlands

BE Belgium

DPA Germany

EFE Spain

EPA Netherlands

EXPSYS Italy

LUS Portugal

M Hungary

PAP Poland

SCANPIX Denmark

11 partners (10 European Agencies 1 technical

partner) 9 countries

Duration: 30 months

Max. EU Grant: 2.300k €

Start date: 1st May 2010

N° of pictures to be digitalised and catalogued:

150.000

Main objectives of EURO-Photo Project

1) Digitization of 150.000 historical pictures from the

archives of 10 leading European News Agencies (15.000 for

each partner)

2) Availability of pictures through Europeana to European

citizens free of charge for educational or private use

3) The sustainability based on the revenue stream coming

from sales: an EURO-Photo Pilot commercial service is

going to be launched

The EURO-Photo Project – The scenario

BEFORE THE PROJECT (Current situation - Problem to be faced)

Agencies’ historical Photo archives are part of a common historical heritage.

At present this heritage is marginally accessible. Only a small fraction (about 2%) of the archives

have been digitalised with limited availability only at a national level and mostly to professional

picture buyers.

AFTER THE PROJECT (Objectives to be reached)

Agencies’ historical Photo archives will be available to European citizens through Europeana.

Pictures will be free of charge for educational or private use, duly taking into account IPR issues.

The sustainability of the project will be based on the revenues stream coming from selling

historical pictures by agencies to their current target (media industry) at an European level.

Partner Quantity & Definition

ANSA,

Italy

1,6 million pictures from ’40 to 1997.

65,000 digital (about 10.000 with complete captions).

ANP,

Netherlands

2,5 million pictures, from 1890 to 2000.

150.000 digitalised with captions.

BELGA,

Belgium

5 million pictures from 1946 to 1993

15.000 digital with captions

DPA,

Germany

8,5 million pictures, (1900 – ‘90s).

About 400.000 digital with captions.

EFE,

Spain

13 million pictures, of which 143.000 digital with captions (before 1990)

EPA

Germany

71.000 pictures from 1985 to 1995.

3.000 digitalised

LUSA,

Portugal

3 million pictures in the archive, from 1970 to 1995, of which about 16.200

digitalized (10.500 with caption in English). About 85.000 digital images with

metadata to be improved.

MTI,

Hungary

13 million negatives dating from 1910s until 2002, of which more than 100.000

have been digitized and are captioned

PAP,

Poland

18 million pictures, from 1924 to 1995.

over 145.000 digital (100.973 with polish captions and 71.611 polish and English)

SCANPIX,

Denmark

10 million pictures, of which 120.000 digital with captions.

TOTAL:

74 millions pictures

with a physical

support

about 1 million

already digitalised

Historical photographic archives of partner news agencies

L’esperienza: qualche

suggerimento per gestire le fasi

del ciclo di progetto e superare le

difficoltà incontrate (ma siamo ancora in corso d’opera…)

a) Fase di preparazione

1) IDEA DI PROGETTO

E OBIETTIVI DELLA CALL

The EURO-Photo Project – The “reason why”

The project is based on needs of the two subjects involved:

News agencies have vast archives of photo-journalistic and

historical material containing millions of images that are

deteriorating and need to be digitalised (an irreplaceable asset to

be enhanced and appreciated) also in order to expand business.

The European Commission has launched “Europeana”

(www.Europeana.eu) to offer and distribute on-line Europe’s most

important digital libraries for European citizens. The Agencies’

archives are part of a common European Historical heritage that

should be preserved and known by citizens.

a) Fase di preparazione

2) Partnership: ognuno il proprio ruolo durante

e dopo il progetto, esperienze comuni,

chiarezza a lealtà

3) Tenacia, imparare dai propri errori (e degli

altri!), fine tuning

b) Gestione del progetto

1) Leadership del coordinatore (chiarezza, puntare

direttamente sulla soluzione dei problemi, mediare e se

possibile esaltare gli interessi dei partner, fermezza su

obiettivi e tempi)

2) Essere pro-attivi, anticipare, misurare e monitorare

3) Le difficoltà: sempre in agguato (per EURO-Photo ritiro

di un partner e problematica sui copyrights vs

Europeana)

c) Sostenibilità nel tempo

Partner di EURO-Photo sono soggetti “profit” (imprese)

La vera “sfida” per la sostenibilità nel tempo è coniugare logiche

imprenditoriali delle agenzie con esigenze sociali e culturali di

Europeana.

Creazione di un portale EURO-Photo per la vendita on line

Attività attualmente in corso

Messa a punto di accordi tra i partner per la futura gestione

Business plan e attività di comunicazione / promozione

Promozione incrociata tra EURO-Photo e Europeana

Punto di attenzione: gestione dei copyrights sui metadati

www.europhoto.org

GRAZIE PER

L’ATTENZIONE

Maurizio Lunetta

EURO-Photo project Co-ordinator

ANSA - Marketing Manager International Department

Via della Dataria, 94 00187 – Roma - Italy

Tel. +39 06 6774672

Mob. +39 335 5755320

e-mail:maurizio.lunetta@ansa.it

Skype: maurizio.lunetta