Cultural data and contentaccess and re-use in

Europeana Georgia Angelaki, EuropeanaLAPSI Seminar, Warsaw 20 October 2011

Cultural heritage organisations (ie

archives, libraries, museums, broadcasters,

etc…)X

2011

140 direct providers and aggregatorsmore than 1500 individual institutions20+m items

CC-BY-NC(like)

CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication

Why?

Users:Trusted sourceEase of use

Re-use

In my workflow

Cultural Institutions:VisibilityServices Revenue

Politicians:Inclusion Education Leadership

Economic growth

Market:Straightforward route to content

Access to the networkPremium servicesBrand Association

AGGREGATE

DISTRIBUTE

FACILITATE

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ENGAGE4

Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Metadata related to the digitised objects produced by the cultural institutions

should be widely and freely available for re-use.

Key recommendations, p5

When public data (which already has been created at public

expense) is made openly available for re-use, everybody can benefit:

Citizens get better information, companies can come up with new

business opportunities and public administrations will

(or anyhow should) be grateful for others to work and add

value for everybody: this is win-win.

Europeana Data Exchange Agreement

Drops “Non-commercial use only” (NC) Drops “Attribution” (BY)Drops “Share-alike” restriction (SA) Adopts a standardised license

• Only give to Europeana what you are comfortable with

• No need to provide metadata for complete or all collections

• Lives no doubt about possible re-uses of the data

Why drop NC and BY?• Most of the metadata is factual information

• Most has been created with taxpayers’ money and everyone should have the right to use it

• It is very difficult to define the boundaries of NC

• Attribution is very hard to enforce especially when a long chain of intermediaries are involved

• New applications and uses can spring for data

• There is much more to gain by giving up something

• Need for a standardised license that will allow a minimum threshold for re-use

The Process• Workshops on risks and rewards of open licenses –

(September 2010-December 2012)

• Workshops and presentations (APENET, ATHENA, EFG, EUSCREEN)

• Workshop with directors of museums, libraries, archives and av on the business models of open data

• Online consultation with the network between December 2010 and January 2011

• Second round of consultation with whole network in May

• 4 Hackathons in June (Barcelona, Poznan, London, Stockholm)

• LOD pilot

• Paper commissioned on the compatibility of CC0 with German jurisdiction

• Dedicated website about open data and our new agreement

Risks identified in the workshops

Rewards identified in the workshops

Published 20

September 2011Published 20

September 2011

Result of long series of negotiations with content providers & aggregators.

http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/newagreement

CENL / EU screen adopt

DEA

CC0 will be applied as of July 1st, 2012!

Metadata re-useexamples

Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot

• 9 direct providers representing

• 300 libraries, museums, archives and av collections

• 16 countries

• 3,5 m records

• Pilot went live in June

• Proof that nothing bad will happen

• It’s a pilot- it’s still subject to change

• CC0 is cleared for this data

• Check it out: Data.europeana.eu

Digital Agenda Day API Hackathons

Hack4Europe!

•About 85 developers participated•With a majority being independent developers or representing SMEs

•Creating 48 prototypes•Why: to showcase the social and commercial value of open cultural data

•With 14 winners in the categories and local special awards

Winner of the Commercial Potential Award: Art4Europe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PEz2d7OLE

Winner of the Innovation Award: TimeMash

Winner of the Audience Award: TimeBook

Legal standardisation-

Content

CC labeled objects

• PD: 465,114

• CC-BY-NC-SA: 160,500

• CC-BY-NC-ND: 69,872

• CC-BY-NC: 60,696

• CC-BY: 17,036

• CC-BY-SA: 6,205

• CC-BY-NC-ND: 2,693

• CC-BY-ND: 4

We need solutions!

• Address the 20th century black hole & make available in- copyright

material

• Legal security for CH organisations for preservation, digitisation-

harmonisation in exceptions and limitations

• Make rights clearance time and cost effective : develop tools,

support legal framework for ECLs to enable mass digitisation

• Orphan works directive is a good step

• Stakeholders dialogue for allowing certain (re) uses of in-

copyright out-of-commerce material/ cut-off dates?

• Interoperable and/or standardised licenses that are easily

interpreted by humans/ machines

• Not all content has (only) commercial value

• Make it easy for users to respect copyright! (also by protecting

the public domain)

More activities…

• Upcoming publication on Europeana’s Licensing

Framework

• Improve rights’ labelling in the portal

• Increase the amount of content available under

open licenses and in the Public Domain

• Raise awareness among providers for the adoption

of standardised licenses

• Advocacy with the Commission for standardisation

of licenses and rights’ information and for

solutions with rightsholders to promote adoption

of open licenses for certain uses (ie non-

commercial, educational, etc)

Thank you!

Georgia.angelaki@kb.nl