Europeana's licensing framework: a standardised approach to deal with unharmonised copyright frameworks Europeana aggregates and displays digital cultural heritage from across Europe and beyond, and as such, is in touch with the diverse copyright challenges faced at the national level by cultural heritage institutions. During this session, Ariadna will briefly introduce how Europeana showcases and uses digital cultural heritage, its central licensing system, the standardised tools that Europeana relies on, what the coming changes such as the CDSM Directive might bring to challenges that are left to be solved.

1. Colour vision, Paul Grigg, Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom, CC BY
A standardised approach to
deal with unharmonised
copyright frameworks
Ariadna Matas

3. WORKING WITH
38
ACCREDITED AGGREGATORS REPRESENTING AROUND
4,000 INSTITUTIONS

4. ANYONE CAN ACCESS
50+ million
CULTURAL HERITAGE ITEMS THROUGH EUROPEANA

5. ANYONE CAN USE
47%
OF THE COLLECTIONS RIGHT NOW - NO ADDITIONAL
CONDITIONS APPLY

6. 71%
OF THE EUROPEANA COLLECTIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR
SOME KIND OF REUSE

7. EDITORIAL

8. PRIORITIES
GIF IT UP COMPETITION
An annual competition from
Europeana, the Digital Public Library
of America, Trove and DigitalNZ, GIF
IT UP challenges people to reuse
digitised cultural heritage material to
produce and share unique gifs.
Roland Zsigmond (Arad, Romania), Source material: Two Sikh men
dueling with wooden swords | Wellcome Collection via Europeana

9. EDUCATION

10. LINKED OPEN DATA
We use contextual vocabularies, especially those available as Linked Open
Data, to give Europeana metadata additional details like precise place
information including geo-location, or translations of key concepts in other
languages.
THINGS WITH CONTEXT MAKE MORE SENSE

11. ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
● Enrich Europeana - transcription and annotation tools, with
automatic enrichment suggestions
● CrowdHeritage - artificial intelligence used to identify elements of
images
● St George on a Bike - machine-learning to create descriptions of
digital objects
● EuropeanaTech AI in GLAMs Task Force - building a foundation to
raise the standard of AI usage in digital cultural heritage
EXAMPLES WE’RE WORKING ON

12. Nordisk hattefabrikk, Ørnelund, Leif, 1965, Oslo Museum, Norway, CC BY-SA
ALL ABOUT THE
USER
STANDARDISATION & SIMPLIFICATION

13. LET’S TALK ABOUT
IMPACT
The cultural heritage sector represents 4% of Europe’s GDP, employs
8.7 million people and makes a real difference to the people who visit
and use its products and services.
We believe that we are all better off if we understand how the things
the cultural and creative industries do every day, week and month
contribute to bringing about a change in people's lives.

14. EUROPEANA LICENSING
FRAMEWORK
=
ALL METADATA IS
RESUABLE
ALL DIGITAL OBJECTS HAVE
A RIGHTS STATEMENT

15. THRIVING PUBLIC
DOMAIN
‘Having a healthy and thriving Public Domain is essential to the social
and economic well-being of society’
European Public Domain Charter

16. HOW MUCH IS HIGH
QUALITY?
45% 67% 58%
HIGH QUALITY AND
REUSABLE CONTENT
HIGH QUALITY
CONTENT
HIGH QUALITY
METADATA
Tier 3+ content Tier 2+ content Tier A+ metadata

17. Creative Commons Licenses
& Public Domain Tools
Used by Europeana

18. We provide 12 standardised rights statements that can be used by any
cultural heritage institution.
Together with Creative Commons tools, they make it easier for cultural
heritage organisations across the globe to share their valuable content
online and communicate the copyright and reuse possibilities.

19. Chronological distribution of dcterms:issued values in Europeana dataset (1800-
2015)

20. Chronological distribution of dcterms:issued values in Europeana dataset (1800-
2015)

21. The Copyright Community seeks to aid practitioners in
the cultural heritage sector to navigate copyright in their
collections, to help them advocate for adequate
institutional support around copyright, and to provide
guidance around how to contribute to adequate legal
frameworks in their countries.
Throughout 2021, it will do so through a series of efforts,
including curating a page with useful copyright tools,
refining copyright guidelines for cultural heritage
institutions, setting up informal online calls to exchange
ideas and tips, and much more.

23. Nordisk hattefabrikk, Ørnelund, Leif, 1965, Oslo Museum, Norway, CC BY-SA
ADAPTING TO
CHANGE

24. Europa [Material cartográfico] : Nach den vorzüglichsten Hülfsnitteln, Götze, Johann August Ferdinand, 1773-1819 Biblioteca Digital de Madrid Spain, Public domain
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