Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised items – books, music, artworks and more – with various search and filter tools to help users to find what they’re looking for. Thematic collections enable browsing of themed subsets (such as 1914-18, Art, Maps and Geography and Photography) and provide access to exhibitions, galleries and blog posts. Archaeology content in Europeana is not yet available through a designated search entry point (a thematic collection) but this is under development. van Shaverbeke describes two ways of supporting this thematic collection - identification of known datasets, and by inclusion of identified subject concepts from multilingual vocabularies such as the Getty's AAT. In her presentation, van Shaverbeke goes on to describe potential re-uses of archaeology content - by the creative industries, in education and research/

1. Rijksmuseum, Public Domain Marked
Sand Excavation
Johannes Tavenraat
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Archaeology in Europeana
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1914-1918
Photography
Art Music
A diverse and growing family
Fashion Maps & Geography
Sports Natural History

4. ● Inspire discovery through stimulating content & design
● Expand audiences and increase user loyalty
● Promote open content to stimulate use & re-use
● Encourage partner engagement on our platform
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Get the right content to the right
user, at the right time
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● Create engaging, collaborative and
interactive platforms which;
a) provide superior user experience
compared to portal
b) offer greater value to our partners
● Increase audiences by aligning collections
themes with existing communities of
interest
● Transcend perception of
‘Europeana = search engine’
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Europeana Essentials
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Thematic collections users are more engaged
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Editorial
● Exhibitions
● Galleries
● Blogs
● Browse Entry Points
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8. A dynamic exhibition platform
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9. Galleries
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10. 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage
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Two major participatory campaigns Europeana Migration and a
centenary tour for Europeana 1914-1918, both allowing people
to show how their pasts have shaped our present.

11. Archaeology in Europeana
Query currently 950K objects (test version)
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12. Browse entry point (test)
Johann Gunnar Andersonn, Swedish archeologist
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qf=(what: archaeology OR archaeologist OR archäologie OR altertümerkunde OR fornminne OR arqueologia OR
archéologie OR arkeologi OR artefact OR artifact OR prehistory OR préhistoire OR urgeschichte OR hällristning
OR palaeolit OR paleoli OR neolitik OR excavation OR utgrävning OR neolithic OR mesolit OR "iron age" OR
"bronze age" OR "stone age" OR "rock art") OR (PROVIDER: CARARE OR PROVIDER:"3D ICONS" OR
DATA_PROVIDER:"The British Museum" OR DATA_PROVIDER: "Medelhavsmuseet" OR
DATA_PROVIDER:"Rijksmuseum van Oudheden" OR DATA_PROVIDER:"The Discovery Programme" OR
DATA_PROVIDER:"University of Vienna" OR DATA_PROVIDER:"Ure Museum of Classical Archaeology" AND
(provider_aggregation_edm_isShownBy:* AND has_thumbnails:true)) NOT (PROVIDER:"Europeana Food and
Drink" OR DATA_PROVIDER:"Nederlands Architectuurinstituut" OR DATA_PROVIDER:"Local Government
Management Agency" OR DATA_PROVIDER:"The National Architectural Heritage Board" OR
DATA_PROVIDER:"The Portable Antiquities Scheme" OR DATA_PROVIDER:"Europeana 1914-1918" OR
DATA_PROVIDER:"Národní památkový ústav" OR edm_datasetName:"2020737_Ag_EU_CARARE_Danish
Agency of Culture" OR
edm_datasetName:"2058632_Ag_EU_LoCloud_RCE" OR
edm_datasetName:"2020706_Ag_EU_CARARE_NPU" OR
edm_datasetName:"282020721_Ag_EU_CARARE_Brussels" OR
edm_datasetName:"282020712_Ag_EU_CARARE_Slovenia")
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How do we construct thematic
collections?

14. Marketing & Comms Update Feb 2017
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Data providers submitting or
updating data about archaeology are
encouraged and advised to:
● Include the term Archaeology in
either dc:subject or in the label of
a SKOS-compliant contextual
resource.
● Use vocabularies like Getty AAT
or the URI from the Europeana
Entity Collection (eg. abbey,
amphitheater, apse, arch, chapel
church, cathedral, monastery,
villa, wall).
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Data providers

15. Featuring Archaeology in Europeana
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● Top aggregator is CARARE, with
more than 55% and almost 600K
items in the collection.
● Other aggregators:
○ Moteur Collections
○ LoCloud
○ Athenaplus
○ K-samsök
● More than 50% of the collection is
using open licenses.
● Under 20% has restricted licenses,
so this thematic collection is quite
freely reusable!

16. Featuring Archaeology in Europeana
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17. Featuring Archaeology in Europeana
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18. Featuring Archaeology in Europeana
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19. Scale with Partners
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20. Re-Use: Creative Industries
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21. Re-Use for Education
● 30 April - 13 June
● 1.700
registrations
● 5 modules
● Run by European
Schoolnet
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22. Re-Use for Research
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23. Q&A
North American artefacts and places. Album of drawings and watercolours
attributed to Thomas Bateman | Thomas Bateman, Wellcome Collection,
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Nienke van Schaverbeke
Head of Europeana Collections
nienke.vanschaverbeke@europeana.eu
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