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The Europeana ecosystem and the role of libraries
Jill Cousins
The Researcher of Tomorrow, Europeana Libraries Final Conference, Madrid, December 4, 2012
“Ecosystems only survive if you deliver more value than
you capture” (Tim O’Reilly)
History
People have many ways to find and use digital Cultural and Scientific Heritage
End User
End User
Access to Cultural Heritage
End User
Access to Cultural Heritagescholar
wikipedia
search
books
Commons
Public(Europe)
Private
Community
Europeana
EFG
APEx
Royal Library
sound & vision
national archive
(Netherlands)
bibliothéque national
(France)Public(national)
culture.fr
The European Library
EUScreen
These can be seen as different spheres in a universe...
Publicly funded
Support Digital Agenda for Europe
Open Data Philosophy
Europeana
EU Screen
APEx
The European Library
EFG
Each with their own characteristics
The Business
Model
Which dictate the ‘logic of value creation’ (or business model)
Europeana’s had very much been ‘supply driven’
APEx Europeana
InA
University
Computense
The EuropeanLibrary
Royal Dutch LIbrary
Nati
onal A
rchiv
e
2008-2011
Europeana acts as a super aggregator with a network of suppliers on whom it is dependent
We needed to change our perspective
To the demand side
It is clear that aggregation is still necessary and that it is valuable creating standards, interoperability, wide resource
access etc
But the a single portal cannot cater to the needs of wildly differing customer segments...
Who have their own workflows and preferences for accessing information
So we needed to switch to being able to distribute - placing content wherever the user is and whenever they want it
The key to being able to make the switch from Aggregator to Distributor serving the user wherever they are was
changing the licensing framework
CC0Open contentPaid contentCorrect rights labels
Europeana now also acts as a super distributor
CC0Open contentPaid contentCorrect rights labels
Is this a true ecosystem?
In this ‘linear model’, there is not enough sense of shared ownership and cooperation -
Is Europeana giving more than it receives?
CC0Open contentPaid contentCorrect rights labels
We are all trying to distribute to same markets, creating conflict, competition and confusion in the same publicly
funded part of the ecosystem
And there is tension between single domain/cross domain
Drafting solutions
Europeana is a way to make our collective cultural heritage available and re-usable to foster cultural diversity and economic growth
It is comprised of hundreds of institutions and individuals that subscribe to this ideal, the Europeana Network or ecosystem.
They are giving to make something better, bigger, more useful.
Can we rethink Europeana as a more collaborative, distributed model?
should we redefine Europeana as the collective wish to make our cultural heritage available for all to power social and economic growth?
Where all the partners contribute to the cloud (metadata, (open) content, software, knowledge)
with a collectively owned infrastructure (Cloud)
Everyone is invited to act as a distributor by building services for users on top
GLAM
Researc
h
And Europeana Foundation acts as the facilitator of this collectively owned Europeana ecosystem
Licensing
Framework
EDM
Business
models
Open
Labs
Knowledge sharing
Funded by the Connecting Europe Facility
content providers &
aggregators
In this cloud we can develop new services such as Europeana Research that is used by Researchers and take a portion of the cake via CEF funding of the
cloud infrastructure but still compete for projects.
Portal
VE
Apps
Channels API
E-Research
with
14-18/fashio
n/...
with
TEL/DARIA
H/CLARIN
The role of libraries
To continue to pioneer access to digital
material
To organise content, create collections for users
To turn TEL into Europeana
Research
To ensure interoperability &
enforce standards
To make users aware of valuable
resources
To digitise and preserve material for future generations
To lead the way in cooperation & become
greater than the sum of each part
To support/be part of the ecosystem