Name
Thank you
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
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
→
Europeana Cloud Work
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
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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