Harry Verwayen, Business Director of Europeana, outlines a draft strategy for 2015-2020. The strategy aims to shift Europeana from a portal to a platform by focusing 80% of efforts on developing tools and services like APIs to enable others to build on Europeana's data. Other key objectives are to improve data quality, increase re-usable content by promoting open policies, support materials in the public domain, and improve discoverability across languages. The strategy is meant to add value for partners by opening access to content while respecting rights and attribution. Verwayen believes this agenda aligns with the Network's values and ambitions.
Making Audiovisual Heritage Accessible and Valuable through EUscreenXLEUscreen
Presentation about the audiovisual domain, EUscreenXL and their connection to Europeana, by Erwin Verbruggen &
Joris Pekel at the Joint IASA-BAAC conference in Vilnius, September 2013
Summary from presentations by Michel Steen-Hansen at a HIBOLIRE seminar in Copenhagen, December 14-15, 2009
Will the library spirit continue in the future?
Yes…..
– if we redefine the Library in a political context
The question then is, how to make the political decision-makers understand, promote and finance these changes.
I think our major challenges just now is to describe a new narrative frame to get public recognition
New narrative frame for the libraries
We need to create a new narrative frame, or should I say, create a definition for what the modern library is and we need to keep debating how to describe it.
We need to develop strategies to gain access to the politicians to convince them of the continued relevance of libraries in modern society.
See the hole Summary http://biblioteksdebat.blogspot.com/2009/12/will-library-spirit-continue-in-future.html
This report coordinated by Nesta and commissioned by the European Commission, DG CONNECT is the first systematic network analysis of the emerging digital social innovation (DSI) ecosystem in Europe.
Presentation to the Suffolk Libraries Staff Conference in Ipswich looking at the many ways in which public libraries help their users improve their lives.
Making Audiovisual Heritage Accessible and Valuable through EUscreenXLEUscreen
Presentation about the audiovisual domain, EUscreenXL and their connection to Europeana, by Erwin Verbruggen &
Joris Pekel at the Joint IASA-BAAC conference in Vilnius, September 2013
Summary from presentations by Michel Steen-Hansen at a HIBOLIRE seminar in Copenhagen, December 14-15, 2009
Will the library spirit continue in the future?
Yes…..
– if we redefine the Library in a political context
The question then is, how to make the political decision-makers understand, promote and finance these changes.
I think our major challenges just now is to describe a new narrative frame to get public recognition
New narrative frame for the libraries
We need to create a new narrative frame, or should I say, create a definition for what the modern library is and we need to keep debating how to describe it.
We need to develop strategies to gain access to the politicians to convince them of the continued relevance of libraries in modern society.
See the hole Summary http://biblioteksdebat.blogspot.com/2009/12/will-library-spirit-continue-in-future.html
This report coordinated by Nesta and commissioned by the European Commission, DG CONNECT is the first systematic network analysis of the emerging digital social innovation (DSI) ecosystem in Europe.
Presentation to the Suffolk Libraries Staff Conference in Ipswich looking at the many ways in which public libraries help their users improve their lives.
Closing keynote for Sharing is Caring X Stockholm
Nationalmuseum Stockholm and The Royal Armoury
16-17 September 2019
http://sharecare.nu/stockholm-x-2019/
Slides 2 - 35: Introduction to Impact Workshop by Dafydd Tudur, Maja Drabczyk, Julia Fallon and Simon Tanner
Slides 36 - 68: Music to my ears: Making rights understandable by Juozas Markauskas and Jurga Gradauskaite
Slides 70 - 92: Achieving inclusivity & diversity in the Europeana Network by Killian Downing, Larissa Borck and Tola Dabiri
Slides 94 - 123: Communicating the value of digital culture to stakeholders by Susan Hazan, Eleanor Kenny and Katherine Heid
From Digitisation to Preservation, Creative Re-Use of Cultural Content, and C...Lizzy Komen
Workshop at DISH 2015 conference, Rotterdam, 7 December 2015. http://www.dish2015.nl/programme/workshops/lose-your-modesty/
Including presentation of 4 EU projects: RICHES, EUROPEANA SPACE, CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES, PHOTOCONSORTIUM
WHAT NEXT FOR DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION?
Realising the potential of people and technology to tackle social challenges
Matt Stokes, Peter Baeck, Toby Baker
Presentation during the BeMuseum conference of 2019 about digital strategy and how the digital and digital transformation now permeates 'all' aspects of work at heritage institutions. How can we adapt to this change?
Presentation during the BeMuseum conference of 2019 about digital strategy and how the digital and digital transformation now permeates 'all' aspects of work at heritage institutions. How can we adapt to this change?
Closing keynote for Sharing is Caring X Stockholm
Nationalmuseum Stockholm and The Royal Armoury
16-17 September 2019
http://sharecare.nu/stockholm-x-2019/
Slides 2 - 35: Introduction to Impact Workshop by Dafydd Tudur, Maja Drabczyk, Julia Fallon and Simon Tanner
Slides 36 - 68: Music to my ears: Making rights understandable by Juozas Markauskas and Jurga Gradauskaite
Slides 70 - 92: Achieving inclusivity & diversity in the Europeana Network by Killian Downing, Larissa Borck and Tola Dabiri
Slides 94 - 123: Communicating the value of digital culture to stakeholders by Susan Hazan, Eleanor Kenny and Katherine Heid
From Digitisation to Preservation, Creative Re-Use of Cultural Content, and C...Lizzy Komen
Workshop at DISH 2015 conference, Rotterdam, 7 December 2015. http://www.dish2015.nl/programme/workshops/lose-your-modesty/
Including presentation of 4 EU projects: RICHES, EUROPEANA SPACE, CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES, PHOTOCONSORTIUM
WHAT NEXT FOR DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION?
Realising the potential of people and technology to tackle social challenges
Matt Stokes, Peter Baeck, Toby Baker
Presentation during the BeMuseum conference of 2019 about digital strategy and how the digital and digital transformation now permeates 'all' aspects of work at heritage institutions. How can we adapt to this change?
Presentation during the BeMuseum conference of 2019 about digital strategy and how the digital and digital transformation now permeates 'all' aspects of work at heritage institutions. How can we adapt to this change?
At this online web conference, the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum will open their virtual doors to cultural heritage professionals and anyone with an interest in high quality, open cultural heritage content.
At this online web conference, the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum will open their virtual doors to cultural heritage professionals and anyone with an interest in high quality, open cultural heritage content.
Slides 2 - 39:Europeana Network Association General Assembly by Marco de Niet, Georgia Angelaki, Erwin Verbruggen, Fred Truyen and Sara Di Giorgio
Slide 40: Keynote Frédéric Kaplan
Slide 41: State Secretary Angela Ferreira
Slide 42: Wrap up day one by Marco de Niet
Slide 45: Welcome by Marco de Niet
Slide 46: Welcome by Maria Ines Cordeiro
Slide 47: Europeana Strategy 2020+ by Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak
Slides 48 - 142: Developments at Europeana by Harry Verwayen
Slides 143 - 147: Welcome & Introduction to the conference programme by Marco de Niet
Slides 149 - 191: The Europeana Innovation Agenda highlights by Ina Blümel, Johan Oomen, Sara Di Giorgio, Lorna Hughes, Pedro Santos and Andy Neale
Slides 193 - 194: Introduction of the afternoon programme by Fred Truyen
Slides 195 - 231: We transform the world with culture by Harry Verwayen, Elisabeth Niggemann, Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak, Katherine Heid and Merete Sanderhoff
Slides 232 - : The Europeana Innovation Agenda highlights by Gregory Markus, Chris Dijkshoorn, Maarten Dammers and Harald Sack
Slide 285: Pitch your project (See pitch your project presentation slides)
Slides 286 - 290: Unsung Heroes by Marco de Niet
Slides 291 - 292: Wrap up and closure of day two by Sara Di Giorgio
Slides 2 - 6: Introduction to the programme by Georgia Angelaki
Slides 7 - 9: Keynote Michael Edson
Slides 10 - 40: Europeana Aggregators Forum by Marco Rendina
Slides 42 - 75: Promoting Cultural Heritage with digital invasion by Altheo Valentini-Egina and Marianna Marcucci
Slides 77 - 97: Opportunities for digital cultural heritage and the public domain, under the EU Copyright Rules by Paul Keller, Steven Stegers, Jurga Gradauskaite, Antje Schmidt, Sebastiaan ter Burg and Harry Verwayen
Slides 98 - 101: Climate Call for Action: Outcomes by Barbara Fischer
Slides 102 - 114: Wrap up and closure by Marco de Niet
Europeana 2019 - Connect Communities - Pitch your projectEuropeana
Slides 3 - 10: The GIFT Box: Helping museums make richer digital experiences for their visitors by Anders Sundnes Lovlie
Slides 11 - 18: Between people and things - Transfer of knowledge at SHMH by Elisabeth Böhm
Slides 19 - 30: Automated recognition of historical image content by Tino Mager
Slides 31 - 51: 50s in Europe: Kaleidoscope by Sofie Taes
Slides 52 - 63: CrowdHeritage: Crowdsourcing Platform for Enriching Europeana Metadata by Vassilis Tzouvaras
Slides 64 - 73: One by One: developing digital literacy in museums by Anra Kennedy
Slides 74 - 85: HeritageMaps.ie - Ireland's One-Stop Heritage Portal by Patrick Reid
Slides 86 - 90: Open GLAM now! - Sharing knowledge openly online by Larissa Borck
Slides 91 - 103: Endangered Archives Programme the world's most diverse online archive by Tristan Roddis
Slides 104 - 109: We transform the world with culture - Our impact on climate change by Barbara Fischer, Killian Downing and Peter Soemers
Slide 2 - 66: Shaping innovatin in education with cultural heritage by Fred Truyen, Steven Stegers, Evita Tasiopoulou and Marco Neves
Slides 67 - 152: Multilingual access and machine translation by Andy Neale, Antoine Isaac, Pavel Kats, Alex Raginsky and Sergiu Gordea
Slides 155 - 164: How to implement the FAIR principles in digital culture by Sara Di Giorgio, Saskia Scheltjens and Makx Dekkers, Seamus Ross, Franco Niccolucci and Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
Slide 166: EuropeanaTech Unconference by Clemens Neudecker
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3
Strategy 2015-2020 transcript - Europeana Network AGM - Harry Verwayen - 2 December 2013
1. Europeana draft strategy 2015-2020
Presentation given by Harry Verwayen, Europeana Business Director, at the
Europeana Network Annual General Meeting on 2 December 2013, in Rotterdam.
Be bold – be inspired. Those final words give me a really strong message – we’re in
the business of making bold moves, helping to cause big changes. Europeana is a
catalyst for those changes and for making those dreams real. And that makes me
really proud to work here.
Why did we collect our culture in our museums, audiovisual collections, libraries and
archives? Because we believe that the knowledge and ideas expressed there
constitute key values of our civilisation. You will find these ideas expressed in long,
complicated documents such as the Lisbon Treaty, where it is stated that ‘the Union
shall respect its cultural and linguistic diversity and shall ensure that Europe’s
cultural heritage is safeguarded and enhanced.’ But what treaties like this don’t
highlight is how important we believe it is to give people access to that culture. But it
is exactly this transmission of that creativity from one generation to the next that
encourages people to rethink those ideas and re-use them to shape their future.
That makes you the transmitters of the DNA of Europe’s culture. It’s a vital role. And
now that computing is everywhere, in every pocket, on every desk, in every home,
we – and all our children – have almost unlimited opportunities for access to the
wonders that we spend our professional lives caring for.
Network
Over the past five years, this Network has come together to fulfill a dream that has a
long history. We had an ambition to combine all the different aspects of our cultural
heritage for the greater good. Our Network is now 800 strong – there are over 200 of
you here today, and you must all take credit for what’s been achieved in that time.
Content Diversity
As we celebrated our fifth birthday last week, we made available our 30 millionth
object, two years ahead of the schedule we had set ourselves. Those 30 million
metadata records come from every Member State in the EU and beyond. They cover
36 European languages. This is an incredible testimonial of ‘Unity in Diversity’.
Europeana Data Model (EDM)
The great value of the Network is not only that every country is represented, it’s also
that it welcomes every type of cultural heritage institution - museums, archives,
galleries, audio-visual centres and libraries. Through Europeana, we are able to
combine all aspects of the heritage of Europe because together we have developed
an enabling rich metadata standard– the Europeana Data Model. This gives the
world the machine-readable descriptive basis for interoperability, and prepares us for
the web of the future, the semantic web of linked open data.
CC0
Making all that descriptive data as openly accessible as possible was the next great
achievement of this Network. Moving to the CC0 Public Domain Dedication meant
that the vast dataset of European cultural heritage, the building bocks of the
2. European imagination, became freely available for thinkers to interrogate as part of
the semantic web, to make new connections and to weave 2,000 years of ideas into
new structures of understanding. This is a massive contribution to learning.
Similarly, CC0 also enables our data to be used in new applications, and to be
mashed-up with other data in new web services, delivering content to people in
innovative ways, allowing people to interact with the culture that shaped them in their
own ways, in their own space and time.
1914-1918
But we have also been able to touch lives in very real and tangible ways. This new
engagement is nowhere better exemplified than in Europeana 1914-1918. We
borrowed an idea from Oxford University and with their help we have rolled it out
across Europe. In 12 countries so far we’ve run family history roadshows - days
where we digitise family stories and precious documents that have been handed
down the generations. We have collected the stories of 10,000 lives, often
documented by their own hands through unpublished diaries, drawings, photographs
and objects.
1914-1918 has touched the popular imagination, validating every family’s own
stories as part of the wider historical narrative. It gets amazing media coverage
everywhere, and has grown in scale. In France last month there were 102
roadshows held over a two week period across the whole of the country. This is a
brilliant example of how together we can work up a good idea until it becomes great.
Leadership
This Network has been courageous enough to take bold steps towards a new future.
This has been recognised across Europe and beyond. We are now working closely
with the Korean Copyright Agency and the Digital Public Library of America, who
share our focus on open interoperability, including our data model and our API. It’s
reflected too in the Memorandum of Understanding on open data that we signed with
the BBC in London last week, alongside our colleagues from the Open Data Institute,
the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation, supporting free and
open internet technologies.
#AllezCulture
Over the past five years, this Network has turned into a movement leading the way
for free and open culture. The momentum has been very visible in the way you’ve all
mobilised around the #AllezCulture campaign. Thanks to your energy, and the work
of the European Commission, Europeana, which started as a small project in 2008
with five people and a couple of laptops, will be funded from 2015 on as a Digital
Service Infrastructure under the Connecting Europe Facility framework.
This is a significant step. It shows that a real shift in thinking has begun: that the
digital infrastructure is considered on the same level as the transport network, and
that digital culture is starting to be understood as an important factor in underpinning
our ambitions for a European ‘knowledge society’. A recent Mckinsey report has
shown, again, that this knowledge society is not just the blue sky thinking of idealists
and activists, but that there are real and tangible benefits to society and economy if
we make access to data more open and ‘liquid’.
3. But we need to keep this in mind as well: the trust in the ability of this Network to
contribute to these ideals also comes with great expectations and responsibility. We
must be confident that we can put in place the operational realities of a digital
infrastructure, with strong and measurable impacts: how many stories have we been
able to weave into the web of our European identity? But also, how many young
cultural entrepreneurs have we enabled to build new businesses based on open
data? Have we been able to develop value-added services that are considered so
useful that organisations are prepared to pay for them? Because indeed, Europeana
will need to develop alternative funding streams as well.
This is certainly not an easy task. Over the past six months, we have invested a lot
of time and energy in consulting you to develop our strategic vision for the period
2015-2020. We’ve run six workshops that a couple of hundred Network members
have taken part in, and run several studies to investigate the societal and economic
impact of our work in various sectors, from education to tourism and the creative
industries.
We know that the value is there. And we have been reminded that we are in a very
good position to unlock that value, if we keep on building on our strengths, as we
have already outlined. But it also highlighted that we have some serious challenges
to overcome!
Expectations: Europeana has been set up to be home for many. Amongst our
stakeholders we can count policy-makers from different ends of the political
spectrum, cultural institutions as well as publishers with different mandates to fulfill,
and individuals with a wide interest in culture as well as entrepreneurs. This is a
good thing. In this environment, we can build bridges that are essential if we are to
be successful in the future. But this has also led to a lack of clarity about the position
of Europeana, about fragmentation of our efforts and about general leaks in energy.
To be successful in the future we will need to make some hard choices that will not
please everyone.
Data quality: We also recognise there are serious challenges around data quality.
Technology still moves at an unbelievable speed and we need to up our game
considerably in order to meet the needs of users and creative industries. Our current
offering does not meet the specs of the latest generation iPads and other mobile
technologies.
Environmental: There are other threats in our environment that are even harder to
overcome. Many of us know the difficulties of keeping up with technology, of staying
relevant in a fast-changing environment while juggling declining budgets at a time
when investments are what is needed. And at the practical level, even when we have
the funding, digitising our collections and making them usable by our citizens is
compromised by an intellectual property regime that has not adjusted to the digital
age yet.
We all share the dream that being able to do so fosters understanding, and inspires
and empowers people. Because as Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further, it is by
standing on the shoulders of giants.” We need to stay true to that vision, to our
4. commitment to give everyone access to Europe’s imagination and the wisdom of the
ages.
Agenda 2020
Values
First and foremost, we need to deeply understand that Europeana is a network
based on values. These are best captured in these three underpinning principles:
•
Mutuality – we are a community, based on the principles of achieving mutual
benefit, acting in good faith and presuming it on behalf of others.
•
Access – we aim to provide a set of high-quality re-usable content, tools and
services to enable creativity and innovation. It’s about making our digital
objects as widely available as possible, with licences that give people the
opportunity to do new things with them.
•
Attribution – we are committed to the principle of respecting rights through
acknowledgement and attribution.
This makes us different from Google. This makes us different from Wikipedia. But we
welcome anyone who is willing to work with us on the basis of these three values.
During the consultation we have established that our ability to be successful
in the future, to create real, tangible value for our partners, depends largely on
how successful we will be in reaching the following 5 objectives:
1. Shift from Portal to Platform: “Portals are for visiting, platforms are for building
on”1. That means less focus on inviting individuals to explore their heritage in a predefined way on the europeana.eu portal, and much more on developing communities
who re-use the data, content, knowledge and technology that Europeana and its
partners make available for them. This shift is essential to enable a future that will be
read-write, where you will be able to take, and give back, to your community.
Practically, this means that we will create service infrastructures such as Europeana
Labs, where developers and creatives will find at least screen resolution content,
technology and documentation that they can use to build new services on. It means
we will work with strong, like-minded partners such as Wikimedia to make all content
that is specifically licensed for re-use available on the platforms that bring the highest
visibility and user interaction. We will also ensure that you will be able to track and
understand the impact of that engagement in your own statistics so that you are not
left in the dark. And it means that we will develop open source products, such as
channels, for partners who want to reach deep into specific interest groups, like
fashionistas and foodies.
1
See the excellent article on the subject by Tim Sherrat:
http://www.nla.gov.au/our-publications/staff-papers/from-portal-toplatform
5. Will the good old portal still exist? Yes, but not as our primary interface to our
audiences. We will still need it as a showcase that can be used as a search
interface, but there will be an evolution, a shift of resources, so that development,
maintenance and marketing of the search portal will take no more than 20% of our
efforts, while 80% will be spent on developing the platform and instruments of re-use
such as APIs and Linked Open Data that can radically extend our audiences: with
this shift, we aim to truly reach the people who can reach the people 2. Does that
mean that Europeana does not want to be engaged directly with end-users
anymore? Certainly not! In all honesty, we just like these projects too much ;-). We
will therefore continue to work on big, pan-European engagement projects such as
1914-1918, 1989 and Food & Drink. But we will be very selective, and use these
themes as demonstrators for improvements of the core of our operations.
As a platform we will therefore reposition the brand of Europeana from a destination
site to a facilitator for the cultural and creative industries – as a digital service
infrastructure, in fact, with scalable mechanisms and a high degree of automation of
processes. Think ‘powered by Europeana’.
2. Improve Data Quality
Changing the way we distribute our heritage is of course directly related to the
quality of the material that we make available for distribution. While we will continue
to collect all the material that partners make available, the Europeana Foundation
will focus strongly on the quality of that data. This means all data in Europeana
should have relevant descriptions, previews of reasonable sizes, accurate geolocation data, clear rights statements (preferably to allow re-use) and persistent
direct links to the objects. Europeana is not about storing content, and even less
about preservation. But we must become the best place to find direct access to
trusted sources. We will work more intensively with providers of high quality data and
encourage others to do the same.
3. Support the Public Domain: “What is in the Public Domain should stay in the
Public Domain.” We will continue to work with our contributing partners and other
stakeholders to ensure that all digitised Public Domain material is freely available for
re-use without any restrictions. In order to achieve this goal, the principles
established by the Europeana Public Domain Charter and the New Renaissance
report should be applied to all publicly funded digitisation projects in Europe.
4. Increase the amount of re-usable content: “Open unless policies”. Europeana
will work with contributing partners on increasing the amount of material that is made
available for re-use. We will work with these partners on promoting ‘open unless’
policies in the cultural heritage sector that ensure that digital content that is not
subject to third party rights is made available under conditions that allow re-use. We
will also work with distributing partners on making sure these conditions are not
violated. We want to be a voice for the interests of publicly accessible libraries,
museums and archives and their users and make sure they are properly represented
on the European level during the upcoming copyright framework review. Our goal
here is to keep the idea of shaping copyright agenda for the public good at the top of
the policy agenda. This should allow provisions for non-commercial use, for example
in education, and easier cross-border access.
2
Nick Poole, CEO Collections Trust
6. 5. Improve discoverability: “ensure that you can discover my culture in your
language”. We know that we won’t solve the problems of seamless multilingual
access on our own. What we must strive for is that solutions are found which are
sufficiently open source to serve civic society in the long run. We must not look just
for short-term solutions. Again, this must be about the Europeana Network acting in
concert to make sure that this perspective is widely understood in the public debate.
Value for Partners
We believe that this is an ambitious but realistic agenda, firmly vested in the values
and ambitions of the Europeana Network. If we are able to open access to this large
body of content, ensuring mutual benefits and respecting rights and attributions, then
we will truly demonstrate that we can add value for our partners.
We see great examples of this agenda in the making already. This month for
example, several edit-a-thons are being organised by Europeana Fashion, which will
undoubtedly yield some great results. Early next year we will be launching the
GLAM-wiki toolset, which will enable institutions to batch upload and track content on
Wikimedia. We will be running several pilots with Google and by the end of January
will launch a new version of the Europeana Open Culture app. Plenty of stuff to be
excited about!
So be bold- be inspired! Thank you.
1. How do we establish desired impact?
2. What do we need to reach out to creative industries and develop new income
streams?
3. How do we facilitate reciprocal value creation through Cloud?
4. How do we make this Network 2020-proof?
7. 5. Improve discoverability: “ensure that you can discover my culture in your
language”. We know that we won’t solve the problems of seamless multilingual
access on our own. What we must strive for is that solutions are found which are
sufficiently open source to serve civic society in the long run. We must not look just
for short-term solutions. Again, this must be about the Europeana Network acting in
concert to make sure that this perspective is widely understood in the public debate.
Value for Partners
We believe that this is an ambitious but realistic agenda, firmly vested in the values
and ambitions of the Europeana Network. If we are able to open access to this large
body of content, ensuring mutual benefits and respecting rights and attributions, then
we will truly demonstrate that we can add value for our partners.
We see great examples of this agenda in the making already. This month for
example, several edit-a-thons are being organised by Europeana Fashion, which will
undoubtedly yield some great results. Early next year we will be launching the
GLAM-wiki toolset, which will enable institutions to batch upload and track content on
Wikimedia. We will be running several pilots with Google and by the end of January
will launch a new version of the Europeana Open Culture app. Plenty of stuff to be
excited about!
So be bold- be inspired! Thank you.
1. How do we establish desired impact?
2. What do we need to reach out to creative industries and develop new income
streams?
3. How do we facilitate reciprocal value creation through Cloud?
4. How do we make this Network 2020-proof?