digitising & making available european heritage

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www.dreams.europeana.eu

Digitising & Making Available

European Cultural Heritage

#AllezCulture

December 4, 2013

Twitter: @JilCos

Vision:

Openly accessible digital cultural heritage will foster the

exchange of ideas and knowledge, lead to a better

mutual understanding of our cultural diversity and

support a thriving knowledge economy in Europe

-Council of Europe 2008-

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Aggregation infrastructure

Domain Aggregators:

• TEL

• APEX

• EUscreen

• EFG

National Aggregators

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Access to content

all 28 member

states & in 36

languages

Europeana supports economic growth:

Creative Industries in Europe are growing

fast (estimated 7% per annum) and they

need fuel.

Europeana provides that.

To date 770 businesses, entrepreneurs,

educational & cultural organisations are

re-using our data in websites, apps and

games.

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Impact 1: Europeana Supports Economic Growth

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Europeana Labs

Natural History Game

Europeana connects Europe:

open, democratised access to culture

helps all communities across Europe

to understand the past and to

appreciate cross-cultural differences.

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Impact 2

Europeana connects Europe: open, democratised access to culture helps all

communities across Europe to understand the past and to appreciate cross-cultural

differences.

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Europeana makes Europe’s culture

available for everyone:

30 million records under a Creative

Commons Zero public domain

dedication (CC0) means Europe’s

heritage becomes available for re-use

for everyone, young and old

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Impact 3: Europeana makes Europe’s

Culture available for everyone

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BUT

Europeana Fashion

Europeana Platform

(digital service infrastructure)

The Vision

Museum

Museum

AV Collection

Museum

Archive

Library

Library

Archive

Europeana 1914-18

And we have some major challenges in

delivering user needs?

• Shift from portal to platform

Multilinguality

• Quality of data

• Copyright

• Clearance

• Correctly labeled

• Cross Border

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All Public Domain

material freely

available for re-use

Public Domain Rijksmuseum

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Develop ‘open, unless’

policies for public material

(without 3rd party rights) to

allow re-use

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Ensure that new EU

copyright framework

allows easy non-

commercial and cross

border access

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Jill.Cousins@kb.nl

Twitter: JilCos following EuropeanaEU