User engagement - The key element to Exhibitions and User Generated Content

projects: A leading story line

Aubéry Escande – The European Library / Europeana

Second EUscreen International Conference“Use and creativity”

The European Library - Overview

The European Library - Services

• National libraries’ showroom• Multilingual interface• 430 collections, remote access

to +/- 150 million records ==> Exhibition programme

launched in 2007

The European Library exhibition programme

The European Library exhibitions

www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibitions

Exhibition Tool, Set-up & Guidelines

#2Europeana Content todayTotal: 19,2 million items in Europeana

12,7 million images: photos, paintings, drawings, postcards, posters

6 million texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts, letters

146,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts, public information films

291,00 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings

User EngagementOngoing User testing:•Usabilty study•Online user survey

End user activities:• Virtual exhibitions• Social Media•Twitter: @EuropeanaEU•Facebookwww.facebook.com/europeana Blog: http://blog.europeana.eu

•‘The First World War in everyday documents’

http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu

Europeana Virtual Exhibitions

“Europeana 1914-1918”

World War One in pictures, letters and memories

www.europeana1914-1918.eu

The 1914-1918 Europeana programme - From Concept to

Project(s)2008 - Oxford University & Jisc launched The Great War Archive - over 6,500 items contributed by the general public in the UK

2011-2014 – Europeana initiates a set of activities to be completed by November 2014

2010 – Europeana, German National Library & Oxford University announced their partnership in a crowd-sourcing project across Germany

2012

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The 1914-1918 Europeana programme – 8 stories for the 100th

anniversary

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Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten

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