- Europeana has achieved support from various organizations and has nearly 5 million digitized objects online through a partner network of 200 institutions. An object data model and governance model have been designed and a prototype developed. 8 million euros in funding has been secured. - The vision for 2011 is for Europeana to become an aggregator, distributor, catalyst, innovator, and facilitator that generates revenue. Key goals are to automate ingestion, improve data quality, resolve intellectual property issues, manage user generated content, improve search capabilities, and secure long-term funding. - Workgroups will focus on legal issues, ensuring user participation, continuing to develop the object and business models, defining policies, and engaging communities

1. Summary of Day 1
David Fuegi
Monika Segbert

2. Achievements to date
•Continuing support from KB, Dutch government, other
Member States, and the Commission
•Nearly 5 million objects
•Partner network of circa 200 institutions
•Object model designed
•Governance model
•Fully functioning prototype
•Business model proposed
•Attracted 8 million euros worth of funding
•Begun to set up an organisation

3. A vision for 2011
•Aggregator
•Distributor
•Catalyst
•Innovator
•Facilitator
•Revenue generator

4. How are we going to get there?
• Automate Ingestion
• Improve our data
• Solve IPR issues (including keeping stuff in the public domain)
• Manage user generated content
• Turn Object model from theory to usable reality
• Improve multilingual search and retrieval
• Treble the number of objects to access
• Create a Brand
• Market Europeana
• Agree governance
• Bid for more projects
• Create an Europeana Open Source Development Community
• Develop new partnerships
• Secure long term non project funding

5. WP 2 *The Boss*: Objectives of EV1.0
•Maintaining and extending a powerful alliance of
stakeholders
•Creation of an operational Europeana service
•Disseminating the service to end users
•Finding a viable organisational solution
•Creating a sustainable funding model
•Policy development

6. Rhine & Danube….July 2010 + April 2011
The Rhine Boat Guerre d'Orient, combat sur le Danube

7. Overall aims of WP1
•Business and organisational recommendations
•Extending partner, stakeholder and end-user networks
•Further develop concept of aggregators at national and
domain (vertical) level
•Resolve legal issues: IPR, terms of use, creative commons,
user generated content, licensing….
•User needs and feedback
•Further develop business and organisational model
•Develop policies for approval by EDL board
•Recommendations on API’s

8. The business model - reminder
Image clients

9. The challenge for Work Group 1.2
•Solving legal issues (some of the tasks)
• Define limitations imposed by content providers. What can be
used in API’s?
• Define how to clear use of Europeana enriched data structures
(with WP2)
• Pragmatic draft for a Europeana Content License (with
EuropeanaConnect)
• Contract to cover the inclusion and reuse of partner and
aggregator content in Europeana API’

10. The challenge for Work Group 1.3
•Ensuring User participation
• Users opinions and wishes
• Strategy to deal with feedback
• Research required to understand users needs and wants
• Identify types of UGC uses
• Management and moderation of UGC
• Europeana Policy on user generated content

11. WP3 Overall objectives
•Continue the work of EDLnet WP2
•Co-ordinate the various projects aiming to deliver content
and technology to Europeana v1
• through additional concertation and work group meetings
• with invitations to WP and task leaders in EuropeanaConnect and
other projects in the Europeana group of projects
• to ensure good integration of services and structures
•Proactive engagement with the various communities
• site visits and focused meetings

12. Issues for Work Group 3.1
•Object model:
• which types of objects need to be included in the surrogate model
(physical, digital, landing pages etc.), which relationships are
important to include?
•Metadata issues:
• how are the various types of objects described (structures, fields,
standards, vocabularies) and how could/should metadata be
improved?
•Functional issues:
• what services should be provided for the different object types and
how should this be presented to the user?

13. Issues for Work Group 3.2:
•Semantic contextualisation
•Multilinguality

14. Work Group 3.3: Prototyping and sandbox
•EuropeanaLabs!
•A development infrastructure with test-suites of high quality
data for creating, testing and evaluating innovative solutions
for Europeana
• Development environment for rapid prototyping
• Large high quality data collection
• Sandboxes for experimenting prototypes on real data for
• Effectiveness
• Efficiency
• and benchmarking for
• Scalability

15. WP4: Production
Rhine & Danube….July 2010 + April 2011
The Rhine Boat Guerre d'Orient, combat sur le Danube

16. Sandboxes as integral part for developing
innovative technologies for EuropeanaV1
• Validate candidate technologies for the v1.0 release with regards
to searching, aligning semantics in a multidimensional content
space, cross-lingual and cross-cultural information retrieval
• Get hands on experience with ingesting and mapping a plethora
of: metadata formats, languages, controlled vocabularies, etc.
• Start building a pan-european network of content aggregators and
cultural heritage partners
• Validate strategies to guarantee future scalibility, maintainability,
agility and extensibility of the Europeana business model.
©Sjoerd Siebinga

17. WP5: Building the brand
politicalendorsement
stakeholderinvolvement
user engagement