Europeana: Connecting society through aggregation

Europeana: Connecting Society through Aggregation

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2010 2008 prototype operational service
1 4.6 million objects
1500 participating institutions
2 28 Aggregators
30 employees
21 projects
1.5 million visits in 2010
Stable portal
Open Source Code
EuropeanaLabs
Public Domain Charter

AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTE FACILITATE ENGAGE Following Four Strategic Tracks 1 3 4 2

Persistent identifiers 1.AGGREGATE source curated content Linked data Multilinguality Data enrichment 5 1 2 3 4 Build the open trusted source for European digital cultural material

Access to Europe’s culture Aggregated

Aggregators CENL National Digital Library ACE Film Archive X Eurbica National Archive 1 MICHAEL NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 Museum X Archive X National Archive 2 Film Archive 1 Film Archive 2 Film Archive 3 National Archive 3 Library X Museum A Archive A Library A FIAT Television Archive 1 Television Archive 2 IASA Sound Archive 1 Sound Archive 2 ICOM Europe Museum 1 Museum 2 Federation of European Publishers Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C RL 1 RL 2 RL 3 euscreen

14.6 million objects 18-20 th Century Dominance Books, Articles, Postcards, Folklore objects, Photography, Art

Tagging content with controlled vocabularies: English vocabulary on Vikings

Tagging content with controlled vocabularies: Norwegian vocabulary on Vikings

Linked Data

LOD Datasets on the Web: September 2010
Over 25 billion RDF triples
Over 395 million RDF links between data sources

Linked Open Data & Europeana
A way to share that data with other parties
A way to give users the best possible search experience
A way to compete and collaborate with Wikipedia

Europeana Data Provider Agreements
Current Agreements have non-Commercial clause = no sharing with Wikipedia
CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain in 2011 = sharing with the world

IPR Solutions
Europeana Licensing Framework
Collective Licensing Research
ARROW- Registry of Orphan works

AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTE FACILITATE ENGAGE 1 3 2 4 Culture.Creativity.Growth.

Cost/Benefits

BENEFITS OF UNLOCKING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES

Partners Resources Activities Activities Activities Relationship Value Proposition Stakeholders Channels Benefits Costs COSTS/BENEFITS 5

COST ALLOCATION Aggregate Facilitate Distribute Engage 5

BENEFITS DIRECT INDIRECT EXTERNAL 1 2 3 2 2 3

DIRECT DIRECT BENEFITS INDIRECT
Benefits for Europeana and its participating investors and partner institutions:
Increased visibility of the content of participating institutions
Decreased cost of providing access through open source code
Cost savings by standardization of metadata
Cost savings through knowledge transfer
BENEFITS EXTERNAL

EuropeanaLabs Six portals are using EuropeanaCode as their base. More in the pipeline.

Cost savings on Source Code 1

DIRECT INDIRECT BENEFITS INDIRECT Benefits that, through market transactions, are transmitted to consumers and producers in other markets: • Time saving by researchers • Creation of new businesses in area’s such as Tourism• Creation of new jobs in the creative industries• Cost savings in the educational market BENEFITS EXTERNAL

Source: Arnold, David and Guntram Geser (2008) EPOCH research agenda for the applications of ICT to cultural heritage. Budapest: Archaeolingua. 2 of the EU’s jobs in the tourism industry are ‘cultural tourism jobs’

INDIRECT BENEFITS OF UNLOCKING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES
Increased visits to real museums
Educational reuse – Schoolnet competition –
20G Blogs
PEK the traveller flea

Multiplier effect of the presence of a cultural heritage site (EU figure) Source: Arnold, David and Guntram Geser (2008) EPOCH research agenda for the applications of ICT to cultural heritage. Budapest: Archaeolingua.

DIRECT EXTERNAL BENEFITS INDIRECT benefits that can be classified as positive consequences of the actions of Europeana: • The strengthening of a shared European Culture • The promotion and enabling of diversity • The increase of social inclusion • The improvement of multimedia literacy BENEFITS EXTERNAL

CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM Multiplier effect of the presence of a cultural heritage site (EU figure) Source: Arnold, David and Guntram Geser (2008) EPOCH research agenda for the applications of ICT to cultural heritage. Budapest: Archaeolingua.

Europeana: Connecting society through aggregation

by Museums Computer Group on Dec 02, 2010

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