CulturaItalia - Europeana: what next? (EN)

Europeana: what next? Jill Cousins EDL Foundation CulturaItalia, Rome, April 2, 2009

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Europeana.eu –The 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 online. “ European Union Communiqué August 2006 PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

EuropeanaNet (EDLnet) Remit Thematic Network of 1.3 million euros across 4 domains: Museums, Libraries, Archives and Audiovisual Collections To establish trust between the institutions To create a coalition of the willing To tackle domain level interoperability issues (standards) To propose a practical implementation of the European Digital Library (a user defined prototype) To create the organisational structure for a European Digital Library PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

A structure for Europeana Museum A Archive A Library A Library X National Digital Library Film Archive 1 Archive X Film Archive 2 ACE ACE Film Archive 3 Film Archive X Museum X Museum 1 ICOM Europe Museum 2 MICHAEL CENL Eurbica National Archive 1 NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 National Archive 2 IASA FIAT National Archive 3 Sound Sound Archive 1 Archive 2 Television PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER Television LOGO LOGO LOGO Archive 1 Archive 2

The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009 MIMO Judaeica STERNA BHL Museum A Archive A Library A Library X National Digital Library Europeana Film Archive 1 e.g. CulturaItalia Film Archive 2 Connect Archive X ACE Film Archive 3 EFG Film Archive X EuropeanaLocal v1.0 EDL Museum 1 Museum X ICOM The European Museum 2 Europe Library ATHENA CENL EURBICA MICHAEL APENET National Archive 1 NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 National Archive 2 IASA VideoActive FIAT National Archive 3 Europeana Sound Sound Travel Archive 1 Archive n Television Television Archive 1 Archive 2 Presto EUScreen PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO Prime

Europeana.eu – the Mutual Incentive Business Model Corporate sponsors PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

Business Model and Sustainability: Europeana.eu provides both cultural and economic value • Short term economic value intangible but cultural value high • Long term the economic potential helps balance books but not to cover €2.5-3.5 • million running costs per year Project funding creates the operational service but will not sustain it • Business model is therefore mixed –structural funding and revenue generation. • Revenue generation happens when service has eyeballs. • PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

EuropeanaNet –The Successes in under a year Strong network 150 members, museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections, research institutes and universities ALL EU countries represented ALL sectors represented Over 4 million items are accessible Search across domains and material types works Standards being agreed across & within domains Domains talking to each other for the first time A Beta Version of Europeana.eu Huge Interest PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

Europeana v1.0 Builds network, but pushes towards aggregation. Maintains Prototype, ingests some more content Acts as glue for various projects Works on governance and financing Increases content to at least 10 million items by 2010 Launches Europeana v1.0 operational service in June 2010 Works on surrogate model and semantic search Creates reuse possibilities PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

Europeana next 2 years 4 new content provision projects : EuropeanaLocal, EFG, Athena and APEnet Supported by co funding of €300,000 from the Netherlands Ministry of Culture, Education and Science and €72,500 from the Italian MiBAC 6 new projects starting early 2009 including: Europeana v.1.0 and EuropeanaConnect Supported by co funding from Ministries of Culture and Education in Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain a fully operational service within 2 years With help from the Ministries of Culture and Education in Europe to solve the issue of co-funding and hosting costs PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

The EDL Foundation Purpose: • to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage. The Foundation will: • facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives, audiovisual archives and libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal. • provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding purposes and as a springboard for future governance. PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

Present Shape of the EDL Foundation & its Governance Cross D European w C ec Domain & flo h a is Associations nn n ion Foundation io tio ne at a lli rm in ng National Associations o em f ns I is National Institutions d Regional Institutions Individual museums, archives, libraries Associates e.g.: ministries, sponsoring private partners etc PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

A structure for Europeana = A structure for EDL Foundation Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C Museum A Archive A Library A Federation of European Publishers Library X National Digital Library Film Archive 1 Archive X Film Archive 2 ACE ACE Film Archive 3 Film Archive X EDL Museum X Museum 1 Foundation ICOM Europe Museum 2 MICHAEL CENL Eurbica National Archive 1 NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 National Archive 2 IASA FIAT National Archive 3 Sound Sound Archive 1 Archive 2 Television PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER Television LOGO LOGO LOGO Archive 1 Archive 2

Proposed EDL Foundation Governance Advisory & Executive Holds legal power & Committee Budgetary roles Reports on finance & Up to 9 strategy elected Board of Participants Up to 5 elected Council of Content Providers & Aggregators Commission Funding & Orientation Group PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER Commission & Paying Member States LOGO LOGO LOGO

Board of Participants Proposal Participants can be: A. European Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders B. International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch (non legal entities) of this association C. Natural persons for the benefit of an association for one of the Domains, which is not a legal entity. D. Existing/Founding members of the Board of Participants and the hosting organisation (BnF, INA, BNS, BA, KB) E. Elected representatives of the Council of Content Providers and Aggregators (5) PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (CCPA) Participants can be: A. Content Providers, individual institutions B. Associations of Content Providers C. Aggregators (on all levels and all domains) o 5 people/institutions to be elected to the Board of Participants from the Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (1 per Domain and 1 aggregator) o The CCPA will convene at least 1x per annum for a general assembly o The CCPA can form Working Groups on specific topics and themes to advise the EDLF and associated projects o Members of the CCPA will actively be invited to participate in associated projects PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

Commission Funding & Orientation Group Participants can be: A. Representatives of Member States that contribute to the EDLF B. Representatives of European Commission o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group will advise the EDL Foundation on strategic and budget issues o The EDL Exec. Committee will inform Commission Funding & Orientation Group on what is being done with the money and the strategy o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group will be chaired by the Commission o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group to convene around Member State Expert Group meetings o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group made up of member states paying for Europeana PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

Europeana needs o From 2011 needs budgetary commitment from member states o New funding help to match any new projects in 2009 or 2010 o Encouragment of aggregation at national levels o More content from institutions o Funding of digitisation and preservation in institutions o Engagement in the public domain and copyright debates PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

Europeana in 3 years o At least 15 million items o New sites using Europeana aggregated content o For schoolchildren o For the visually disabled o For subject specific portal ..... o Europeana content in tourism sites, and via TomTom o Enabling virtual exhibitions e.g.: all of Titian, the Roman Empire o Users creating the associations between objects o A first level of multilingual search and retrieval o An aggregator of national and vertical aggregators o A place of excitement and discovery PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

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Jill.Cousins@TheEuropeanLibrary.org PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER LOGO LOGO LOGO

CulturaItalia - Europeana: what next? (EN)

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