Europeana.eu: cultural collaboration across borders and domains Jon Purday Senior Communications Advisor, Europeana The 12th Annual International Conference «EVA 2009 Moscow»
PARTNER LOGO What is Europeana.eu ? Prototype portal launched in November 2008 Public access point for European cultural and scientific heritage Links users to content digitised by libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual collections Content from all 27 European Union Member States Multilingual interface in 26 languages Material from over 1,000 content providers
PARTNER LOGO What’s in the Europeana prototype ? Current contents: 4.5 million items 3,500,000 images: paintings, drawings, postcards, posters, photos, pictures of museum objects 935,000 texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts, letters 115,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts, public information films 13,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings
PARTNER LOGO Securing collaboration political endorsement provider involvement user engagement
PARTNER LOGO Stakeholder collaboration at the top level EDL Foundation’s Board of Participants from the cutural heritage and research associations: ACE: Association Cinémathèques Européennes CENL: Conference of European National Librarians CERL: Consortium of European Research Libraries EMF: European Museum Forum EURBICA: European Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives FIAT: International Federation of Television Archives IASA: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives ICOM Europe: International Council of Museums, Europe LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
PARTNER LOGO Partner collaboration at the site-building level The Europeana partner network 150+ partners from museums, libraries, archives, audiovisual collections, software developers, university research Representatives from every Member State Promotes technology and knowledge transfer across the sectors and between Member States Shares common standards and best practice Technical experts lead work groups developing use cases, data models, components etc. Network translates all parts of the interface into 26 languages
PARTNER LOGO CENL National Digital Library ACE Museum X EurbicaNational Archive 1 MICHAEL National Library 1 NL 2 NL 3 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 ICOM Europe Museum 1 Museum 2 EU Screen Aggregators promote collaboration National aggregator
PARTNER LOGO Athena Archives Portal Europe [APEnet] STERNA BHL Europe EUScreen Video Active European Film Gateway Europeana Local Europeana Travel MIMO Judaica Europeana Connect Europeana v1.0 Collaboration and the growth of Europeana Europeana.eu Arrow Presto Prime
PARTNER LOGO Content providers to Europeana Major new release in 2010 will give access to 10 million items from: Athena: museum objects Archives Portal Europe [APEnet]: national archives Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL Europe]: texts and taxonomies European Film Gateway: film, scripts, posters, stills Europeana Connect: sound recordings Europeana Travel: exploration, tourism and cartography Europeana Local: regional libraries and museums EU Screen: TV broadcasts Judaica Europeana: documentation of Jewish life in Europe’s cities Museum of Musical Instruments Online: images and audiovisual of instruments Information about all the projects contributing to Europeana:
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