europeana and extended collective licensing
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Presentation given by Jill Cousins, director of the Europeana Foundation at the Europeana Connect workshop on Extended Collective licensingTRANSCRIPT
Luxembourg,March, 2011
Europeana and ECL,
“Goal of Workshop: Forthcoming IvIR report is as complete & useful as possible and knowledge around ECL is shared & strengthened
“Digitisation and online accessibility are essential ways to highlight cultural and scientific heritage, to inspire the creation of new content and to encourage new online services to emerge. They help to democratise access and to develop the information society and the knowledge-based economy”
Vision
“Access for One and All”
No European wide solutions to digitise and make accessible the 20th and 21st century material
= No access for users to their cultural heritage
Consigned to History
Extended Collective Licensing has the potential to solve the gridlock
To work within the law(s) while compensating (at reasonable rates!) the
rightsholder(s)
Vision Current Status
Strategy Barriers Vision
AGGREGATE
DISTRIBUTE
FACILITATE
1
3
2
ENGAGE4
Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015
become THE trusted source for cultural heritage
AGGREGATE
Expand the networkSource content
Improve data quality
FACILITATESupport the cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation & advocacy
Strengthen advocacy
Share knowledge
Foster R&D
Make heritage available wherever they are whenever they want it
DISTRIBUTE
Upgrade portalDevelop partnerships
Put content in user workflow
Cultivate new ways for users to participate in their cultural heritage
ENGAGE
Vision Current Status
Strategy Barriers Vision
15,800,000objects
accessible via their
metadata
Status Content Gaps
Status Content Gaps
Real term increase of 25% in Video46% in Sound since July 2010
Status Content Gaps
Pre 1900 = 11 million1900-2011 = 4.8 million1950-2011 = 1.5 million1970-2011 = 900 thousand1990-2011 = 400 thousand
OLD! Stuck in the 19th century
glory days!
Vision Current Status
Strategy Barriers Vision
Proquest – Denmark, Netherlands
Google – Public Library of Lyons
Google Art Project
Silo Digitisation
Barriers to overcome include:
Legal – current law pre internet – (national boundaries are meaningless on the internet and should be meaningless in Europeana)
Definitions – orphan works, out of commerce
Poor lobbying pro access versus pro control
Light at the end of the tunnel: KB, the Dutch Collecting societies and the Dtuch government taking the risk.
Users need AccessIf we don’t give it they will take itControl of giving will reap returns
ECL as Risk Management
Vision Current Status
Strategy Barriers Vision
Overcoming the Gridlock Research – EuropeanaConnect, Europeana AwarenessLobbying for AccessCulture as part of the PSI DirectiveBold changes at EU level to bring the law into the 21st centuryKeep the vision in mind
The Vision
ACCESS FOR ALL
