The document discusses Europeana, a digital platform and network for cultural heritage institutions in Europe. It provides key facts about Europeana, including that it has over 23 million records from 1700 partners across 33 countries. It also describes several Europeana projects that are digitizing collections and helping increase awareness of Europeana. The speaker encourages cultural institutions to get involved with Europeana to increase the exposure and reuse of their online collections.

1. Europeana Inside
Nick Poole, CEO, Collections Trust
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2. Collections Trust
• Our aim is to help people define and achieve excellence in providing
collection-based services to their users
• People use our standards and guidance to reduce their expenditure,
maintain accountability, mitigate risk, train staff and manage programmes
• Collections have to be part of the answer – as a community, we have to
show how what we do delivers value in a way that users understand and
want it
• We are all about supporting change and innovation – every new vision of
what we can do starts with Collections Management
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3. Where is Europe?
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4. Where is Europe?
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5. European Cultural Programmes
• The European Commission invested €6bn in Cultural programmes between
2007-2013
• Key priorities:
– Promoting Intercultural dialogue
– Supporting mobility of skills and Collections
– Developing the Cultural & Creative Industries
– Developing Digital Libraries
– Supporting Digital Literacy
• http://ec.europa.eu/culture
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6. What is Europeana?
PORTAL
NETWORKS API/CHANNELS
PROJECTS
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9. Europeana key facts
• 23m records
• 1700 partners
• 6m unique visitors per annum + rising
• 25+ projects
• 33 countries
• UK is 8th biggest community (1.10m digital assets)
• http://www.europeana.eu
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10. Europeana projects
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11. Europeana projects
EUROPEANA AWARENESS
Promote awareness and use of Europeana in all European
Member States, including press and promotional activity, and
specific projects to engage with Wikipedia and other content
communities
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12. Europeana projects
DIGITISING CONTEMPORARY ART
Digitising 26,921 artworks including paintings, sculptures,
installations and time-based media
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13. Europeana projects
EUROPEANA 1914-18
Crowdsourced digitisation, working with the University of
Oxford to run one-day events where the public bring
photographs and artefacts into libraries and learn how to
digitise, catalogue and publish them
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14. Europeana Inside facts & figures
• €3.8m Research & Development programme
• Developed in partnership with KE
• 28 partners incl. 10 leading software companies
• 12 European Member States, plus the US and South Africa
• 960,000 new records into Europeana
• Led by the Collections Trust
• http://www.europeanainside.eu
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15. The challenge
• We need Collections Management Systems to work harder to support the
increasingly diverse needs of the museum
• Maximising the use of your online collections means delivering them on your
site and serving them up for use via multiple channels/API
• The purpose of Europeana Inside is to build into your CMS the tools to manage
how your collections are shared, with whom and under what conditions
• Putting the control of re-use in your hands
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16. Museum
Museum
Collections Management
Library
System
Europeana
Library Connection
Kits
Archive Digital Asset
Management System
Archive
AV
Archive
Enriched metadata
Content providers Technical partners Aggregators
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17. The benefits
• Connecting Collections Management and Collections publishing workflows
• Europeana, Wikipedia, BBC Digital Public Space, Google History
• Maximising the exposure of your online collections
• Limiting the risk through granular rights/permissions management
• Cleaning up your metadata for re-use
• Providing a channel for user-enhanced metadata to flow back to you
• Opening up opportunities for income generation
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18. The next challenge
• Once we have opened up Collections metadata for re-use through multiple
channels, we need a way of tracking metrics & impact
• This is outside the scope of Europeana Inside, but will form the basis of a future
project proposal
• Part of a broader discussion about metrics & KPI for online collections – moving
from quantity to reach and engagement
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19. European Funding
• European funding presents a huge opportunity for UK museums wanting to
make more active use of their Collections
• As long as you aren’t the coordinator, participating in European-funded projects
is simple
• Participating opens up new networks & partnerships
• The European Commission is currently evaluating the possibility of diverting €m
into enabling Digitisation in European museums
• We need to increase participation in EU funding by UK institutions
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20. Next steps
• Join the Europeana Network – http://pro.europeana.eu
• Find out about CT’s programmes – www.collectionslink.org.uk
• Information about EU funding for UK museums – www.culturefund.eu
• Get in touch with us to find out more about our other EU funded projects and
opportunities for future partnerships!
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