CulturaItalia - Europeana: what next? (EN)

Europeana: what next?

Jill Cousins
EDL Foundation

CulturaItalia, Rome, April 2, 2009

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Europeana.eu –The Vision

“A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search
Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by
different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “

European Union Communiqué August 2006

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EuropeanaNet (EDLnet) Remit

Thematic Network of 1.3 million euros across 4 domains: Museums,
Libraries, Archives and Audiovisual Collections

To establish trust between the institutions
To create a coalition of the willing
To tackle domain level interoperability issues (standards)
To propose a practical implementation of the European Digital Library
(a user defined prototype)
To create the organisational structure for a European Digital Library

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A structure for Europeana

Museum A Archive A Library A

Library
X National Digital Library
Film Archive 1
Archive X Film Archive 2
ACE
ACE Film Archive 3
Film Archive X

Museum X Museum 1
ICOM
Europe Museum 2

MICHAEL
CENL
Eurbica National Archive 1

NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 National Archive 2
IASA FIAT National Archive 3

Sound Sound
Archive 1 Archive 2 Television PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER
Television
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Archive 1 Archive 2

The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009

MIMO
Judaeica
STERNA
BHL Museum A Archive A Library A

Library
X National Digital Library
Europeana Film Archive 1
e.g. CulturaItalia Film Archive 2
Connect Archive X ACE
Film Archive 3
EFG
Film Archive X
EuropeanaLocal
v1.0 EDL
Museum 1
Museum X
ICOM
The European Museum 2
Europe
Library ATHENA
CENL
EURBICA MICHAEL

APENET National Archive 1
IASA
VideoActive
FIAT
National Archive 3
Europeana Sound Sound
Travel Archive 1 Archive n
Television Television
Archive 1 Archive 2

Presto EUScreen PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER
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Prime

Europeana.eu – the Mutual Incentive Business Model

Corporate sponsors

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Business Model and Sustainability:

Europeana.eu provides both cultural and economic value
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Short term economic value intangible but cultural value high
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Long term the economic potential helps balance books but not to cover €2.5-3.5
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million running costs per year
Project funding creates the operational service but will not sustain it
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Business model is therefore mixed –structural funding and revenue generation.
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Revenue generation happens when service has eyeballs.
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EuropeanaNet –The Successes in under a year

Strong network 150 members, museums, libraries, archives and
audiovisual collections, research institutes and universities
ALL EU countries represented
ALL sectors represented
Over 4 million items are accessible
Search across domains and material types works
Standards being agreed across & within domains
Domains talking to each other for the first time
A Beta Version of Europeana.eu

Huge Interest

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Europeana v1.0

Builds network, but pushes towards aggregation.
Maintains Prototype, ingests some more content
Acts as glue for various projects
Works on governance and financing
Increases content to at least 10 million items by 2010
Launches Europeana v1.0 operational service in June 2010
Works on surrogate model and semantic search
Creates reuse possibilities

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Europeana next 2 years

4 new content provision projects : EuropeanaLocal, EFG, Athena and
APEnet
Supported by co funding of €300,000 from the Netherlands Ministry of
Culture, Education and Science and €72,500 from the Italian MiBAC

6 new projects starting early 2009 including: Europeana v.1.0 and
EuropeanaConnect
Supported by co funding from Ministries of Culture and Education in Finland,
France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain

a fully operational service within 2 years
With help from the Ministries of Culture and Education in Europe to solve the
issue of co-funding and hosting costs
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The EDL Foundation

Purpose:
• to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage.

The Foundation will:
• facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives, audio-
visual archives and libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery
and sustainability of a joint portal.
• provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding purposes
and as a springboard for future governance.

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Present Shape of the EDL Foundation & its
Governance

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National Associations
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Regional Institutions
Individual museums, archives, libraries

Associates e.g.: ministries, sponsoring private partners etc

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A structure for Europeana = A structure for EDL Foundation

Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C

Museum A Archive A Library A
Federation of European Publishers
Library X National Digital Library
Film Archive 1
Archive X Film Archive 2
ACE
ACE Film Archive 3
Film Archive X
EDL
Museum X Museum 1
Foundation ICOM
Europe Museum 2

MICHAEL
CENL
Eurbica National Archive 1

IASA FIAT National Archive 3

Sound Sound
Archive 1 Archive 2 Television PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER
Television
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Archive 1 Archive 2

Proposed EDL Foundation Governance

Advisory & Executive Holds legal power &
Committee
Budgetary roles Reports on finance &
Up to 9
strategy
elected
Board of Participants

Up to 5
elected
Council of
Content Providers & Aggregators

Commission Funding & Orientation Group
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Board of Participants
Proposal
Participants can be:

A. European Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders
B. International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch
(non legal entities) of this association
C. Natural persons for the benefit of an association for one of the Domains, which is
not a legal entity.
D. Existing/Founding members of the Board of Participants and the hosting
organisation (BnF, INA, BNS, BA, KB)
E. Elected representatives of the Council of Content Providers and Aggregators (5)

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Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (CCPA)

A. Content Providers, individual institutions
B. Associations of Content Providers
C. Aggregators (on all levels and all domains)

o 5 people/institutions to be elected to the Board of Participants from the
Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (1 per Domain and 1
aggregator)
o The CCPA will convene at least 1x per annum for a general assembly
o The CCPA can form Working Groups on specific topics and themes to advise
the EDLF and associated projects
o Members of the CCPA will actively be invited to participate in associated
projects

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Commission Funding & Orientation Group

A. Representatives of Member States that contribute to the EDLF
B. Representatives of European Commission

o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group will advise the EDL
Foundation on strategic and budget issues
o The EDL Exec. Committee will inform Commission Funding & Orientation
Group on what is being done with the money and the strategy
o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group will be chaired by the
Commission
o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group to convene around Member
State Expert Group meetings
o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group made up of member states
paying for Europeana

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Europeana needs

o From 2011 needs budgetary commitment from member states
o New funding help to match any new projects in 2009 or 2010
o Encouragment of aggregation at national levels
o More content from institutions
o Funding of digitisation and preservation in institutions
o Engagement in the public domain and copyright debates

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Europeana in 3 years

o At least 15 million items
o New sites using Europeana aggregated content
o For schoolchildren
o For the visually disabled
o For subject specific portal .....
o Europeana content in tourism sites, and via TomTom
o Enabling virtual exhibitions e.g.: all of Titian, the Roman Empire
o Users creating the associations between objects
o A first level of multilingual search and retrieval
o An aggregator of national and vertical aggregators
o A place of excitement and discovery

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wolfgang mozart

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Jill.Cousins@TheEuropeanLibrary.org

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