Joris Pekel - Europeana status quo.

1. Europeana Status Quo
Vilnius Aggregator meeting 07/10/2013
Joris Pekel
@jpekel
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2. About
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3. Content
à Where do we come from?
à Where are we at?
à Where are we going?
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4. Where do we come from?
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5. History of Europeana
à April 2005: Jacques Chirac wrote to European Commission President
José Manuel Barroso, recommending the creation of a virtual
European library
à EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate had been supporting
European digital information exchange projects for 15 years
à September 2005: publication of EC’s i2010 strategy on digital libraries
à 2007: European Digital Library Network – EDLnet – began building
Europeana, funded under i2010
à November 2008: Europeana prototype launched
à Summer 2010: prototype became an operational service funded under
the EC’s CIP ICT-PSP (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
Programme)
à January 2011: New Renaissance Report published - endorses
Europeana as ‘the reference point for European culture online’
à September 2012: Europeana metadata released under CC0 waiver,
making it freely available for re-use
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6. Growth of Europeana
2
4.6
14.6
10
21
16
23.5 24
27.4 27
28 30
0
10
20
30
Recordsinmillion
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Year
Realised Target
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7. Where do we come from?
à Very low barriers for joining
à ‘Ploughing’ the European cultural heritage sector
à Extreme rapid growth
à Great in making change, not so great in providing great value
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8. Where are we now?
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9. Where are we now?
à Nearly hit the 30M metadata records
à Rights labeling campaign
à Metadata quality
à Change in funding
à Europeana strategy plan 2015-2020
à Great in quantity, not so great in quality
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10. Where are we going?
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11. Where are we going
à Europeana has to become a trustworthy source for
accessing cultural content
à Platform driven vs. portal driven
à Continue to set standards on a legal and technical level
à Europeana Cloud
à Providing access to content
à Provide tangible value to our data providers
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12. Current aggregation model
Domain Aggregators National initiatives
Audiovisual
collections
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
e.g. Musées
Lausannois
e.g.
Culture
Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The
European
Library
e.g. APEX
e.g. EUScreen,
European Film
Gateway
e.g. Judaica Europeana,
Europeana Fashion
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13. Europeana Cloud
GLAM
%
End)user%
Crea0ve%Industries%
Aggregator%
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14. Tangible value - what is that??
à Consultancy and advice on legal and technical issues
à Tools
à Trusted source for documentation
à Continue to set standards on a legal and technical level
à Highlight and showcase your good work
à Metrics about usage of Europeana data
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15. Conclusion
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16. Conclusion
à High quality data is key for success
à Europeana as partner to move your institution forward in the
digital age
à Making content available for re-use
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17. Thank you
Joris Pekel
joris.pekel@kb.nl
@jpekel
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