Presentation given by Lisette Kalshoven at the Europeana Sounds kick-off meeting on 17 February 2014. It explains the basics of the Europeana Licensing Framework (ELF) and discusses the tasks given to WP3 in the first 2 years of Europeana Sounds

1. Europeana Sounds Kick-Off
WP3: Licensing Guidelines
Lisette Kalshoven, Kennisland

2. Starting point

3. The Europeana Licensing Framework
(ELF) is the framework of agreements,
guidelines and terms and conditions that
facilitates the supply, exchange, access
to and use of metadata and content via
Europeana.

4. metadata
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5. Publishing metadata
Main principle: All metadata must be available
under the same (non restrictive) terms
• All metadata that Europeana receives from the data providers is
published under the terms of the CC0 Universal Public
Domain Dedication.

6. content
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7. Publishing content
Main principle: Europeana does not publish (or
even hosts) digital objects
• Europeana publishes metadata about digital objects.
The metadata describing a digital object must
carry a rights statement related to that digital
object.
• edm:rights supports a limited list of rights statements that
can be used to describe the rights status of the digital object
(and the preview image).
• If the digital object is in the public domain the rights statement
must say so.

8. What does the ELF mean for
Europeana Sounds?
• All objects in Europeana must have a (correct)
rights label
• All objects that are in the public domain must
remain in the public domain (Public Domain
Charter)
• User Contributed Content (UCC) - CC BY-SA
• Respect the licenses and statements provided
when using objects for tools, new works or services

9. WP3 objective
Improve access to out-of-commerce
works and increase the opportunities
for creative reuse of Europeana content

10. Participants in WP3
• KL: 18 person months
• EF: 8 person months
• DNB: 7 person months
• BNF: 6.5 person months
• Statsbiblioteket: 5.5 person months
• NLL:1.5 person months
• Beeld en Geluid: 1.5 person months
• All other content partners: 1 person month

11. What we are going to do
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12. WP3 tasks
• T3.1 Integrate audio content into the Europeana
Licensing Framework (M1-12)
• Legal aspects of integrating audio content into Euroepana
• Use of Industry standard unique identifiers
• T3.2 Identification of barriers to online access (M4M10)
• T3.3 Rights holder consultation (M11-M15)
• T3.4 Develop policy recommendations (M15-M24)
!
WP3 ends
after year 2!

13. Year1: Task 3.1, 3.2 + 3.3
• Produce guidelines for integrating audio collections
into the Europeana Licensing Framework
• Examine how Europeana and its data providers can
ensure the adoption of industry standard unique
identifiers for content in Europeana
• Identify the access barriers for out-of-commerce
works and domain-constrained audio works to
obtain a precise understanding of the problems and
to identify approaches to solve them.
• Start of the rights holder (authors and publishers)
consultation.

14. Method (task 3.1)
Survey
M2
Create
M4
Validate
M5
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15. Working together

16. Where we need your help (Y1)
• We need you to help us ask the right questions
• We need you to answer copyright related questions
surrounding your audio-material
• We need you to help us validate the guidelines
during the workshop in M5

17. Where we can help you
• We can help you with licensing related questions
for your content
• We can help you with licensing related questions
for the services being created during Europeana
Sounds (when you want to add or extract
something from the portal)
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18. First steps

19. WP3: Parallel WP session
tomorrow (during GA)
1. Who is our IPR-contact from your organisation?
2. Writing down the first contours of the questions in
the rights survey:
What rights-related problems arise when you try
to ingest audio content into Europeana?
What kind of unique identifiers can we adopt for
Europeana?
What are access barriers for your out-ofcommerce and/or domain-constrained works?
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20. thank you!
lk@kl.nl
@LNKalshoven
Kennisland works with Europeana and its partners to
improve the accessibility of Europe’s cultural heritage
online. Learn more about Kennisland at www.kl.nl