Annette Friberg, Business Development Manager Aggregation Forum 27 September 2012

Workshop Aggregation; min A challenge per post it min Explain the challenge to the group min Try to map the challenges to main topics Lunch 10 min three challenges are selected 20 Find solutions to the challenges Feed-back Aggregator Forum What do you expect from an Aggregator Forum? Workshop – Aggregator Forum Feed back and Next Steps

TABLE 1 Metadata Quality (provide tools to enhance metadata at CP) Lobby for providers (DEA, MUST share, TopDown funding needs to reach the CPs) Sustainability (national infrastructure/centralisation is this a sustained model?) TABLE 2 Mutual exchange Europeana and Aggregators (meet more frequent, workshops aggregators AND CPs, join the community – TASK FORCE) Raise awareness of domains (collaborative sites/domains/landscapes, share EF aggregation structure for knowledge exchange) Metadata (crowd source to improve metadata, external researches to set up a TASK FORCE to improve data quality) TABLE 3 Metadata (quality improvement) Advocacy (influences, meet standards, what role of EF, central register for digitalisation projects, promote EF to national aggregators) Communication (inclusion of technology issues, communication channels to be simplied, projects)

Aggregator Forum (AF) Table 3 Aims: share experience and best practices, profit from each other. Focusing on aggregators. Positive for EF to influence European standard Members: NA + Aggregating Projects Communication – set up basecamp group, a known tool, VIP of aggregators, discuss points of relevance for a more selected group of aggregators AF to form as a Task force, join AGM – combine meetings with events Focus on a small practical issues/topics Table 2 Aims: discuss aggregation status and coordination of aggregation, SWOT (duplications of aggregators, managing resources, policy in partnerships, lessons learned from different perspectives and backgrounds as examples how different aggregators works across different domains/countries) Members: Aggregators to invite their aggregator partners, CPs could be invited as well (so not only EF to invite), single and thematic domains Communication: online tools, basecamp to discuss, EPro to share documentation/ archival system, Aggregator Community at Pro, emphasis a dialogue between EF and Aggregators, smooth moderation with online tools to create order of communication. Meetings: aggregator semantic meetings, domains specific ideas, twice a year

Table 1 Aims: communication to have clear role of the different aggregators and the ECs role herein. Communication: Pro A table with task, services, tools overview. Basecamp. Members: All aggregators – but create semantic expert group, are there relevant distictions at all? Topic segmentations Meetings: Once a year.