1. The National library of
Luxembourg and Europeana
Patrick Peiffer
Bibliothèque nationale Luxembourg
30/01/2013 CIP ICT PSP Workshop – Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg

2. Plan
 Intro
 What does the National Library do in Europeana?
 Why do we participate in European projects?

3. Intro
 Job 1: Manager of the largest digital scientific library
in Luxembourg, hosted an managed by national
library: www.findit.lu , http://blog.findit.lu/start
• Free public access to 50k eJournals, 80k eBooks
and 350 reference platforms
 Job 2: Legal issues in digitisation and open access
publishing: www.eluxemburgensia.lu
• This is the link to Europeana

4. Europeana – the platform for digitised
cultural works
 www.europeana.eu
 Thousands of members: museums, archives and
libraries
 Repertoire of 20+ million digitised works online
 Key player for standard setting and legal issues
 Very large and active Open Data platform

5. What did we do with Europeana?
 Started as passive participants in 2006
 Active role 2009-2011: Leader of IPR Team
 Established licensing framework for Europeana
• Public Domain policy: Charter/ Mark/ Calculator
• Plenty of workshops and stakeholder consultation
• Open data policy, live since 2011
• 2009-2011 results:
http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-and-resources.p

6. www.outofcopyright.eu
 Goal is automatic calculation
of copyright protection terms
 Analysis of 30 countries

7. What do we do with Europeana?
 Current project: “Europeana Awareness” 2012-2014
 Member of same IPR team
 Tasks:
 Continuous refinement and of Europeana Licensing
Framework, Guidelines and FAQ:
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/licensing
 Our focus is on “20th century black hole”:
Pragmatic cross border solutions for rights clearance

9. Why do we participate in Europeana?
 Long term strategy
 Member of innovation network
• Important to “land” results in own organisation
• We “import” knowledge, add value and “export” it
 Exposure to many different stakeholders
• Informs own implementations and national networks
• www.eluxemburgensia.lu (note: new version in mid-February)

10. Next steps
 Building on “Extended Collective Licensing” report 2011:
http://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/guibault/ECL_Europeana_final_report092011.pdf
 In-depth research on cross border solutions for rights
clearance:
 2013-2014: Europeana is financing a legal expert
 2014: Publication of final report written by IvIR (Institute
for Information Law), Amsterdam

11. Thanks for your attention
patrick.peiffer@bnl.etat.lu
@patrickpeiffer

12. Links
Europeana Licensing Framework, Guidelines and FAQ
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/licensing
Public Domain Calculator
www.outofcopyright.eu
Europeana Connect, coordinated by the Austrian national library, Results of WP lead by National library Luxembourg
http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-and-resources.php?page=8
Europeana Awareness, coordinated by Europeana Foundation, current project of National library Luxembourg
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-awareness
“This Painting is not available in your country”, Paul Mutant, CC BY-NC-ND
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmutant/4992725876/
2011 Cross-border extended collective licensing: a solution to online dissemination of Europe’s cultural heritage?, J. Axhamn
and L.Guibault, http://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/guibault/ECL_Europeana_final_report092011.pdf
National library of Luxembourg digitisation website
http://www.eluxemburgensia.lu
National library of Luxembourg digital scientific library
http://findit.lu http://blog.findit.lu/start