europeana: creating a digital resource for researchers

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e-mail

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Jill Cousins

18 March 2013, Goportis, Hannover

Europeana:Creating a digital resource for researchers

Where we are now

Creating a common hub for tools, content, metadata & services

Europeana Research

An Action

Where we are now

Vision:

We believe in making cultural heritage openly accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural diversity better and

contributes to a thriving knowledge economy.

5.6 million visits 2012

500+ Europeana

Network members

2200+ participating institutions

Many Hackathons yielding 75 prototypes

25 API implementations,

40 requests per week

27 million objects released as open data

Data Model used by US, Brazil,

Korea, S.Africa

Build the trusted source for cultural heritage

AGGREGATE

Expand the networkSource content

Improve data quality

Aggregated• 2200+ content

providers• 173 aggregators

• 26.9 million objects

The European Library acts as

the library aggregator

indexes 115m

bibliographic

records, plus 16m

digital links

48 National

Libraries of EuropePlus 19 research

librariesLinks to digitised

content and bibliographic

records at libraries

Started in 1990s - ‘Mother’ of

Europeana.

Make heritage available wherever users are whenever they want it

DISTRIBUTE

Upgrade portalDevelop partnerships

Put content in users’ workflow

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FACILITATESupport the cultural heritagesector through knowledge transfer, innovation & advocacy

Standardise copyright

Share knowledge

Open data

Release of Europeana Data as CC0 20

September 2012

Europeana Data Model

Europeana API

Europeana SPARQL Endpoint

Europeana Linked Open Data

Cultivate new ways for users to participate in their cultural heritage

ENGAGE

Enhance users’ experience

Extend social media presence

Channels to Users

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Creating a common hubfor tools, content, metadata & services

Licensing

Framework

EDM

Business models

Open

Labs

Knowledge sharing

Repository

Core Platform

Europeana as a core service platform

We have a 3-year project

Europeana Cloud

Cloud-based infrastructure for

the storage & sharing of data &

content Offering

economies of scale

With access to knowledge & solutions for

sustainability, licensing

&governance

Impact

A sustainable infrastructure and

service for European

Researchers and others

Provide use cases from Researchers on what they want and how they want

it

Produce a Legal, Social and

Technological Framework for

working together in the Cloud

Deliver technical infrastructure to

support the cloud

Create pilot ‘service’ Europeana

Research. Joint Venture Europeana

& The European Library

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Europeana Cloud Work

contributors2200 users

30,000+

network 500+

incl. EUScreen, TEL, EFG, APeX, Europeana Fashion,

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LibrariesMuseumsArchives

AV

Policy makers

Office:35

creative industries

The backend

infrastructures

are shared

But there are

different front ends

targeted at specific audiences

Europeana Open Lab Living

labs

Design to

Delivery

Virtual lab

Europeana Research

Europeana Research:

Cross-domain platform to support digital scholarship

Emphasis on open access content, tools and services

Data from Europeana & The European Library but also content from willing museum, library, archive, audio visual providers

TEL

researcher

Europeana

Europeana Research

DARIAH

DANS

CESSDA

CLARIN

Europeana Research Services

Europeana

Research Platform

Content & Data

Tools “Porta

l”

“Annotatio

n”“A

PI”

“SPARQL”

Service

s

Europeana

Repository

TEL Repository

DARIAH

CLARIN

Includes 115 m

illion

bibliographic records

from European

libraries

Includes non textual

material AV,

Pictures, 3D etc

Working with user communities in Europeana Cloud and from the Europeana Network to create Europeana Research,

But this may not be a portal…..it could be an API delivering tools and services to existing humanities portals, or a set of resources, data and

mechanisms accessible via the cloud…..

Europeana Research

Digital Humanities researchers

Product Developers from TEL & Europeana and within

Europeana Cloud

contributors2200 users

30,000+

network 500+

incl. EUScreen, TEL, EFG, APeX, Europeana Fashion,

Europeana 1914-1918Europeana Reserch

LibrariesMuseumsArchives

AV

Policy makers

Office:35

creative industries

Europeana Research

Europeana Fashion,

1914-1918, 1989,

Tourism

Creative industries

Join the Europeana Network

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Jill Cousins

Jill.Cousins@kb.nl

Thank you

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