Europeana:Connecting Society through

Aggregation

da vinci

20102008

14.6 million objects1500 participating institutions2 28 Aggregators30 employees21 projects1.5 million visits in 2010Stable portalOpen Source Code EuropeanaLabsPublic Domain Charter

prototype operational service

AGGREGATE

DISTRIBUTE

FACILITATE

ENGAGE

1

3

4

2

Following Four Strategic Tracks

Persistent identifiers

5

1.AGGREGATE

1 source curated content

2 Linked data

3

Multilinguality4

Data enrichment

Build the open trusted source for European digital cultural material

Access to Europe’s culture

Aggregated

CENL

National Digital Library

ACE

Film Archive X

Eurbica National Archive 1

MICHAEL

NL 1 NL 2 NL 3

Museum X

Archive X

National Archive 2

Film Archive 1

Film Archive 2

Film Archive 3

National Archive 3

Library X

Museum A Archive A Library A

FIAT

Television Archive 1

Television Archive 2

IASA

Sound Archive

1

Sound Archive

2

ICOM Europe

Museum 1

Museum 2

Federation of European Publishers

Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C

RL 1 RL 2 RL 3             

euscreen

Aggregators

14.6 million objects Contribution by country

Slovenia1%

Italy1%

Finland2%

Belgium2%

Greece2%

Poland3%

Europe3%

Norway7%

Ireland7%

United Kingdom8%

Netherlands10%

Spain10%

Sweden11%

Germany13%

France20%

Europeana.eu Content Types

Texts32%

Images66%

Videos1%

Sounds1%

18-20th Century

Dominance

Books, Articles,

Postcards, Folklore objects,

Photography, Art

Tagging content with controlled vocabularies:

English vocabulary on Vikings

Tagging content with controlled vocabularies:

Norwegian vocabulary on Vikings

Linked Data

LOD Datasets on the Web: September 2010

Over 25 billion RDF triples Over 395 million RDF links between data sources

Linked Open Data & Europeana•A way to share that data with other parties

•A way to give users the best possible search experience

•A way to compete and collaborate with Wikipedia

Europeana Data Provider Agreements

•Current Agreements have non-Commercial clause = no sharing with Wikipedia

•CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain in 2011 = sharing with the world

IPR SolutionsEuropeana Licensing Framework

Collective Licensing Research

ARROW- Registry of Orphan works

AGGREGATE

DISTRIBUTE

FACILITATE

1

3

2ENGAGE4 Culture.Creativity.Growth.

Cost/Benefits

BENEFITS OF UNLOCKING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES

Partners

ResourcesActivitiesActivitiesActivities Relationship

Value Proposition

Stakeholders

Channels

BenefitsCosts

COSTS/BENEFITS

5

COST ALLOCATION

Aggregate

Facilitate

Distribute

5

Engage

BENEFITS

DIRECT

INDIRECT

EXTERNAL

1

2

3

2

23

DIRECT

DIRECT BENEFITS

INDIRECT

Benefits for Europeana and its participating investors and partner institutions: •Increased visibility of the content of participating institutions•Decreased cost of providing access through open source code•Cost savings by standardization of metadata•Cost savings through knowledge transfer

BENEFITS

EXTERNAL

EuropeanaLabs

Six portals are usingEuropeanaCode as their base. More in the pipeline.

Cost savings on Source Code

1

DIRECT

INDIRECT BENEFITS

INDIRECT

Benefits that, through market transactions, are transmitted to consumers and producers in other markets:

• Time saving by researchers • Creation of new businesses in area’s such as Tourism• Creation of new jobs in the creative industries• Cost savings in the educational market

BENEFITS

EXTERNAL

Source: Arnold, David and Guntram Geser (2008) EPOCH research agenda for the applications of ICT to cultural heritage. Budapest: Archaeolingua.

of the EU’s

jobs in the tourism industry are ‘cultural tourism jobs’

2

INDIRECT BENEFITS OF UNLOCKING DIGITAL REPOSITORIES

•Increased visits to real museums•Educational reuse – Schoolnet competition –

•20G Blogs•PEK the traveller flea

Multiplier effect of the presence of a cultural heritage site

(EU figure)

Source: Arnold, David and Guntram Geser (2008) EPOCH research agenda for the applications of ICT to cultural heritage. Budapest: Archaeolingua.

DIRECT

EXTERNAL BENEFITS

INDIRECT

benefits that can be classified as positive consequences of the actions of Europeana:

• The strengthening of a shared European Culture • The promotion and enabling of diversity •The increase of social inclusion • The improvement of multimedia literacy

BENEFITS

EXTERNAL

CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM

Multiplier effect of the presence of a cultural heritage site

(EU figure)

Source: Arnold, David and Guntram Geser (2008) EPOCH research agenda for the applications of ICT to cultural heritage. Budapest: Archaeolingua.