Work Package 4 focuses on community building and dissemination activities around open metadata and Europeana. Key objectives include: 1. Engaging content holders, metadata experts, and technologists to strengthen existing networks and involve new stakeholders in Europeana. 2. Encouraging content holders to contribute new material to Europeana through hands-on workshops and documentation on tools. 3. Identifying and supporting open metadata "evangelists" to raise awareness of best practices. 4. Facilitating conversations between technologists and humanities researchers through events and an online contest.

1. Work Package 4: Community
and Dissemination
The Open Knowledge Foundation
(Lead)

2. Objectives of Work Package
1. Catalyse an active, diverse and well connected community of
content holders, metadata experts, technologists and others
around Europeana - strengthening existing networks and engaging
new stakeholders
2. Enable and encourage content holders to contribute new material
to Europeana through a series of hands-on workshops and
community documentation on DM2E tools and workflows
3. Identify and support a network of open metadata evangelists who
will help to raise awareness of legal and technical best practices in
a variety of different domains
4. Facilitate conversation and collaboration between technologists in
the Europeana community and end users in teaching and research
- particularly in the humanities - with a series of events, online
activities and a contest.

3. Target audiences & communities
Three main target communities for the work done under DM2E:
• The European cultural heritage sector
• Open data in cultural heritage initiatives (Europeana, Wikimedia, Creative
Commons)
• The Digital Humanities community
Internal audiences Media General audiences and
communities
• Consortium members • High profile technology
• The wider Europeana blogs e.g. Guardian Data • Technology experts
project community Blog, • Related industry
• Other ICT-PSP project • Digital Humanities websites
members and news forums e.g.
• National press print and
online

4. http://dm2e.eu

5. http://dm2e.eu
• Project blog
• Information about project: Objectives, Work
Package descriptions, Partners, Advisory
Board
• Calendar of DH and cultural heritage events
• Newsletter sign up (to come)
• Links to Open GLAM

6. http://openglam.org

7. http://openglam.org
• Guest blog posts from members Digital
Humanities projects (e.g. Mapping the
Republic of Letters) and open cultural heritage
initiatives (e.g. Wikipedian in Residence
Scheme, Hack4Europe)
• Workshop and event write-ups
• Documentation

8. Twitter

9. Europeana Community
• Presenting the project at relevant Europeana
Events (Europeana Plenary last week)
• Inviting Europeana speakers to relevant Open
GLAM/DM2E workshops (e.g. Paul Keller at
Berlin event in April)
• Featuring DM2E on relevant Europeana
websites and using Europeana press channels
• Involvement in Hack4Europe

10. pro.europeana.eu/projects

11. Workshops and Events
• Best practices in legal and technical aspects of
opening up metadata
• Coding sprints
• The project at outside events

12. Workshops/Coding Sprints
Date Location Type Partners
20/04/2012 Berlin Legal Workshop WM, CC, Europeana,
Staatsbibliothek
27/04/2011 Paris Legal Workshop WM, CC
13/06/2012 London Technical Workshop DevCSI, Open Biblio,
Net7, British Library,
Cambridge University
Library
13-14/06/2012 London Bibliohack Net7

14. Open GLAM Evangelism
• Engagement with British Library (UK), Cambridge University
Library (UK), Stiftung Preusischer Kulturbesitz (DE), National
Library of Scotland (UK) & many smaller institutions
• Wikimedia (DE, UK, SE)
• Creative Commons
• Open Culture Data (NL)
• Several Europeana projects (Awareness, Open Up!, Assets)

15. Digital Humanities
• Featuring guest blog posts from Digital
Humanities projects on website
• Engagement with TEXTUS project
• DHAB meeting last week – planning going
forward
• Much more engagement in coming
months now Net7 prototype has
stabilized, discuss more tomorrow

16. Deliverables