The document outlines Europeana Foundation's priorities for the next 6 months in 3 key areas: 1) Improving data quality by targeting specific tier levels for metadata quality. 2) Improving digital services by increasing site traffic and engagement through new collections and features. 3) Innovating through new projects focused on metadata, newspapers, translation, and time-based collections.

1. Priorities next 6 Months
Harry Verwayen
Europeana Foundation
Europa [Material cartográfico] : Nach den vorzüglichsten Hülfsnitteln, Götze, Johann August Ferdinand, 1773-1819 Biblioteca Digital de Madrid Spain, Public domain

2. Operating the Core Service

4. Business Plan 2019

5. 1
Data quality
improvement
The masquerade ball, Pesne, Antoine,Finnish National Gallery, Finnish National Gallery, CC0

6. 30% 40% 30% 0%
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3/4 non-compliant
to EPF
Aims
Target: >30% tier 3/4 by August 2019 ; 35% tier 3/4 by August 2020
Target: >40% tier 2/3/4 by August 2019; 70% tier 2/3/4 by August 2020

7. 35.5% 24.9% 23.1% 16.5%
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3/4 non-compliant
to EPF
Current
Target: >30% tier 3/4 by August 2019 ; 35% tier 3/4 by August 2020
Target: >40% tier 2/3/4 by August 2019; 70% tier 2/3/4 by August 2020

8. (en) Womens professional billiards championship in London .The women ' s professional billiards championship
opened at the Burwatt Hall , London .Miss Muriel Barber ( Right ), with Miss Joyce Gardner , stringing for the break in
the oprning round . 15 February 1932 -
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2024904/photography_ProvidedCHO_TopFoto_co_uk_EU061865.html. (en)
TopFoto.co.uk. TopFoto.co.uk - http://www.topfoto.co.uk/imageflows2/preview?EU061865. In Copyright -
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
(en) London Dockers in anti - immigra -
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2024904/photography_ProvidedCHO_TopFoto_co_uk_1151242.html. (en)
TopFoto. TopFoto.co.uk - http://www.topfoto.co.uk/imageflows2/?s=1151242. In Copyright -
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
2014 (Europeana Photography
project)
2018 (Photoconsortium
partner in Europeana DSI-4)

9. Metis release
● Metis in use for Europeana
Foundation
● Further research into how Metis
can function for aggregators
(Metis External)
● User group has been set to up
guide requirements analysis

10. Aggregator Forum & Common Culture
● Next Aggregator Forum: 3/4 April,
The Hague
● Common culture infrastructure
workshop: 5 April
● Policy survey
● Data quality plans for all
participating aggregator

11. 2
Improving services
The masquerade ball, Pesne, Antoine,Finnish National Gallery, Finnish National Gallery, CC0

12. Engagement targets
Target: 500.000 visits/month (January
413.000, but rising)
Target: 30% returning visitors
(Currently 13%, but rising)

13. Entity pages

14. New thematic collections
Newspapers: 1.7+ million issues
Archeology: 1.3+ million items
Science Based Collection: ?

15. 2Seasons/yr

16. 3
Innovating
The masquerade ball, Pesne, Antoine,Finnish National Gallery, Finnish National Gallery, CC0

17. Metadata component of the EPF

18. Current status of metadata in
Europeana
38.9% 4.6% 0.6% 55%
Tier A Tier B Tier C other

19. IIIF for newspapers

20. Post-editing automated translations of Europeana exhibitions with
eTranslation DSI:
● Disappointing results
● New pilots with static texts
● R&D on new kinds of automated translation (e.g. metadata)
Etranslation pilot

21. Time Machine CSA
● Europeana to lead impact work on time machine
● Three to four workshops to develop the impact
chapter of Time Machine on Education, Research,
Creative industries, Tourism etc.
● Project will lead to a full proposal and funding
requirements for a FET Flagship from 2021 to …
● CSA project runs from 1 March 2019 to 28
February 2020. Amsterdam Time Machine project: https://amsterdamtimemachine.nl/a-prominent-house-in-
the-kalverstraat-in-16th-century-amsterdam/

22. 4
Network
The masquerade ball, Pesne, Antoine,Finnish National Gallery, Finnish National Gallery, CC0

23. Europeana Generic Services Meeting 2018, CC-BY SA Europeana Foundation
Working with 15+
Generic Services
Projects
● Thematic
collections
Migration and
Newspapers
● Publishing
exhibitions
● Ingestion of new
content
● Integration and
display of
annotations
● Participating in
events
● Developing new
Generic Service-
4 proposal

24. Europeana Network AGM 2018 Vienna CC-BY SA Europeana Foundation
Europeana Network

25. Business Plan 2019

26. europeana.eu @EuropeanaEU
The Chinese Market, 1767 - 1769, Rijksmuseum, Netherlands, Public domain