The document discusses plans for the #AllezDemocracy campaign to promote digital archival documents on democracy in Europeana and Archives Portal Europe. It notes that 67 documents from 10 countries were identified for the campaign, with more to come. However, challenges with ingesting content within Europeana's deadlines required postponing the campaign start until September 1st. The campaign will feature one document per week under themes like ideas of democracy and liberation. Participation from network members is requested to amplify social media posts using #AllezDemocracy.

1. Archives Portal Europe - Europeana
#AllezDemocracy campaign
Europeana Member Council meeting Copenhagen
7th of July 2017
wim.van.dongen@nationaalarchief.nl

2. the idea ie the theory
•a theme for promoting textual digital objects in Europeana
•follow-up on the Europeana #AllezLiterature campaign
•run by Archives Portal Europe and Europeana PR teams
•using suitable documents available in both portals
•get Archives Portal Europe‘s Country Managers involved

3. the practice: getting content
the Archives Portal Europe‘s network suggested a lot of
suitable documents, but not all were available on both portals
yet, the initial research showed:
•1 document available on both APE and Europeana
•58 documents only available on APE
some countries/institutions informed us they have suitable
documents (17), but no means to publish them

4. the practice: planning
•APE had an ingestion stop from May 31st till June 20th and had new
Europeana rights statements available from June 28th onwards ...
•Europeana has an ingestion stop from the July 17th till ... ??? .., and an
ingestion deadline: July 3rd, maybe 4th ...
•the campaign was supposed to start on August 1st ...
Challenge:
forward as much content from the Archives Portal Europe to Europeana
and get it right in the first take, literally ‘flying blind‘ because of a lack of a
(real time) Europeana Content Checker, so: collect, fine-tune and forward
suitable content within only 4 working days ...

5. the practice: a lot of Plan B‘s
•the APE team helped institutions that couldn‘t produce
EAD/XML files for suitable content 
National Archives of Romania
•the APE team created a Flickr account for institutions that
couldn‘t publish their digital objects (or without login): f.i. For
the National Archives of Estonia, Georgia and Slovakia
•the APE team will publish documents that couldn‘t be
uploaded in time to both portals as “Featured Documents“

6. the practice: but ... we managed ...
•we have 67 documents in Archives Portal Europe and
available for Europeana from 10 European countries:
Estonia (2) Malta (14)
Finland (4) Netherlands (4)
France (4) Romania (11)
Georgia (4) Slovakia (2)
Iceland (2) Spain (20)
•we have more content coming in: Croatia (4), Greece
(2), Hungary (1), Lithuania (1) and Serbia (1)  in total:
76

7. the practice: but ... we managed ...
•we have 67 documents in Archives Portal Europe and
available for Europeana from 10 European countries:
Estonia (2) Malta (14)
Finland (4) Netherlands (4)
France (4) Romania (11)
Georgia (4) Slovakia (2)
Iceland (2) Spain (20)
•we have more content coming in: Croatia (4), Greece
(2), Hungary (1), Lithuania (1) and Serbia (1)  in total:
76
not just texts, also pictures:
publication of election
results Malta 1962

8. the practice: ... however ...
the first results on Europeana‘s test server are disappointing,
only the content we specifically prepared and tweaked for the
campaign looks more or less Ok, like the Romanian dataset
lessons learned (consequence of the new content strategy):
•we can‘t use our current semi-automatic apeEAD to EDM conversion,
which was tailored for producing full EDM for the former Europeana
display, showing hierarchies
•we have to be able to filter suitable Europeana content out of our own
datasets and completely recreate new datasets for Europeana, running
on something between ESE and EDM, ie EDM light

9. nevertheless, the campaign
•will start, but per September 1st (after tweaking our
Europeana content) using the hashtag: #AllezDemocracy
•will be run by APE‘s PR manager Marta Musso and will be
supported by the Europeana PR team
•aims to publish one document per working day throughout
the months following the start date with a short explanation
of why this document was/is important for the Democracy in
Europe

10. the campaign channels
•the documents will be published via the Archives Portal
Europe‘s social media:
• Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/archivesportaleurope.net
• Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ArchivesPortal
• Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/archivesportaleurope/

11. Network: we need you to participate
We want you to:
wait for our pre-launch session (August)
amplify all the @ArchivesPortal and
@Europeanaeu #AllezDemocracy posts
by spreading them via your own channels
publish your own related content using
the hashtag #AllezDemocracy

12. the campaign sub themes
•Ideas of Democracy: documents that contributed to the
shaping of democracy as we have it now
•Dictators and resistance: documents on dictators and the
resistance movements against them
•Liberation and participation: documents on liberation and
participation processes like strikes, protests, elections,
forming of political parties
•Quotes of Democracy: important quotes on democracy
taken from documents and published as postcards

13. thank you for your attention
any questions?
marta.musso@archivesportaleuropefoundation.eu
wim.van.dongen@nationaalarchief.nl