Europeana Creative Kick-off Meeting, Vienna, 21 Feb 2013. Presentation by Breandan Knowlton.

1. What is this Europeana thing?
Breandán Knowlton – @bfk
Europeana Creative Kick-Off, 21 February 2013, Vienna

3. I am ...
Breandán Knowlton
Programme Manager
Europeana Foundation
B @ breandan.org
@bfk

4. Today
• What is Europeana?
• What Sort of Projects Do We Do?
• What’s Next?

5. What is
Europeana?

6. 2008

7. 2008

8. Europeana is a website ….

10. Actually a series of websites ….

12. And an
Application
Programming
Interface (API) ...

14. Built on a data service, with ….
• 150 aggregators and other data providers,
representing ...
• 3,000 museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual
collections, which have contributed ...
• 26 million digital objects, of which ...
• 6 million are available for commercial re-use.
and
growing!

15. It’s operated by a non-profit,
the Europeana Foundation

16. It’s operated by a non-profit,
the Europeana Foundation
Along with a dizzying array of
Museums, Archives and Libraries

17. Called the
Europeana Network

18. The Foundation and the
Network work on
Projects …
like Europeana Creative.

19. Europeana Photography
Europeana Inside
Europeana 1914-1918
Europeana Libraries
Europeana Newspapers

20. Europeana Projects
Core
Projects
Partner
Projects
Subcontracts
Europeana Version 1 Europeana Version 2
Europeana Awareness
Europeana Cloud
Europeana Creative

21. Europeana Cloud
•Ingest 2.4m metadata records and 5m digitised
objects in a cloud-based infrastructure
•Content available for reuse by a targeted group of
humanities and social science scholars.
•Create the Europeana Research portal
•Explore the potential of cloud computing
technologies
•Infrastructure for the use of anyone

22. How do we
do that?

23. Aggregate
Build the trusted source
for cultural heritage.

24. Facilitate
Support the cultural heritage
sector through knowledge
transfer, innovation & advocacy.

25. Distribute
Make heritage available
wherever users are
whenever they want it.

26. Engage
Cultivate new ways
for users to participate
in their cultural heritage.

28. Engagement

29. User
Engagement
Concepts
Target
Groups
Themed
Content
Partners
Interactive
Platform

30. We engage online.

31. Virtual Exhibitions

32. Site for cultural professionals

33. Blog

34. Newsletter

35. Professional Blog

36. Pinterest

37. And connect to offline.

38. Some Exciting Projects
Collaboration with Wikipedia

39. Some Exciting Projects
Hackathons and Hack4Europe

40. Some Exciting Projects
WWI Community Collection Days

41. But there’s a big gap.

42. We can’t build all of the
engagement platforms.
But we’re not enabling creative
industry to do it, either.

43. What’s
Next?

44. 1. Linked Open Data

45. The Europeana Licensing Framework
2. Extend the
Licensing Framework
from metadata to content

46. 3. Crowdsourcing Campaigns

47. And our newest initiative ...

48. 4. The Europeana Open Lab
Network

49. Engagement

51. Watch these:
www.europeana.eu
blog.europeana.eu
pro.europeana.eu/blog

52. Join this:

53. Do this?

54. Thank you!
Breandán Knowlton
Programme Manager
Europeana Foundation
B @ breandan.org
Pro.europeana.eu