Europeana and the current and new projects Jill Cousins EuropeanaLocal Knowledge Sharing Workshop January 2009

Current and new projects Running oEuropeana Local oEFG oAthena oAPEnet oPrestoPrime oSTERNA In negotiation Europeana v1.0 EuropeanaConnect BHLEurope EUScreen EuropeanaTravel MIMO JUDEICA

EDL Foundation & Europeana want Aggregation EDL Foundation National Digital Library ACE Film Archive X EURBICA National Archive 1 MICHAEL CENL NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 Museum X 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 IASA Sound Archive 1 Sound Archive 2 ICOM Europe Museum 1 Museum 2 ACE

Projects helping the aggregation to date NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 EDL National Digital Library ACE Film Archive X EurbicaNational Archive 1 MICHAEL CENL Museum X 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 n IASA Sound Archive 1 Sound Archive n ICOM Europe Museum 1 Museum 2 The European Library VideoActive ATHENA APE net EFG Culture.fr, CulturaItalia BAM, CIMEC etc…… Europeana Local Trebleclef PrestoPrime IMPACT STERNA

Current Projects Europeana Local Is an aggregator (no portal). Helps local and regional museums, archives, audio visual collections and libraries to bring their content to Europeana.eu. Began 01/06/08 ends 31/05/11 EFG Is a portal. Creates European Film Gateway (a portal) and makes more film accessible to Europeana. Began 01/09/08 ends 01/09/11 Athena Is an aggregator (no portal). Helps museums bring their content to Europeana.eu. Began 01/11/08, ends 01/05/11 APEnet Is a portal. Creates European Archives Portal and makes more archives accessible to Europeana. Begins 15/01/09 ends 04/01/12 PrestoPrime Is a network of excellence for the preservation of audio visual archives and will deliver content to Europeana. Began December 08 STERNA Semantic, web based thematic European reference network application building a distributed digital library focussing on natural science, natural history, and biodiversity material. Began 07(?)

Forthcoming Projects Europeana v1.0 Is the successor network to EuropeanaNet. Turns current prototype into an operational service. It creates automated work flows and processes for the ingestion of content and management of a full scale business operation. End user user marketing ensures take up and sustainability, together with longer term financing solutions. Begins February 09 ends July 11 EuropeanaConnect Is a set of technical work packages delivering components essential for the operational Europeana.eu as a truly interoperable, multilingual and user oriented service. portal. Aims to begin May 09 Includes: semantic resource discovery a unique repository of language resources OAI Management Infrastructure Metadata registry for interoperability Service registry for integration of external services Resolution discovery service for unique resource identification Multimedia annotation, GIS and eBooks on demand Accessibility for Mobile Devices Increased audio content

Forthcoming Projects BHL Europe Improves the interoperability of Europe´s biodiversity heritage libraries by introducing common standards and creates a portal to facilitate the search for taxa specific biodiversity information. It will give access to relevant content through Europeana. Begins in 2009 EU Screen Will work towards standardisation in the audio visual sector and provide solutions to achieve interoperability in the sector. It will develop long term solutions to rights issues. Is a portal and gives access to the material also through Europeana. Begins September 2009 Europeana Travel Overall objective to digitise content on the theme of travel and tourism for Europeana from Europe´s national and research libraries. Begins in MIMO Musical Instrument Museums Online Digitises content and creates a common access portal for musical instruments. MIMO also gives access to its content through Europeana. Begins JUDEICA Jewish Urban Digital European Integrated Cultural Archive Identifies content in European Institutions demonstrating the jewish contribution to the cities of Europe. Content will be digitised & accessible through Europeana. Begins 2009.

The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009 The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009 NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 EDL National Digital Library ACE Film Archive X EurbicaNational Archive 1 MICHAEL CENL Museum X 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 Televisio n Archive 1 Televisio n Archive n IASA Sound Archive 1 Sound Archive n ICOM Europe Museum 1 Museum 2 The European Library VideoActive ATHENA APEnet EFG ACE Culture.fr CulturaItalia BAM CIMEC etc…… EuropeanaLocal Trebleclef PrestoPrime IMPACT BHL MIMO Europeana Connect Judaeica Europeana Travel EUScreen STERNA

What does Europeana.eu need from the projects Software Development that has full functional testing Content using the ESE standard Content tested in test sites provided by Europeana, normalised, quality checked and ready for ingestion. A Distributed Development Community

Current and new projects contributing content to Europeana Catherine Lupovici EuropeanaLocal Knowledge Sharing Workshop January 2009

Europeana v1.0 technical roadmap overview 30 months duration. February 2009-July 2012 WP3 Interoperability aspects of Europeana Basic semantic interoperability Modeling and exchange of information objects and their surrogates including ingest and distribution/output issues Technical and architectural interoperability Further Specification of Functionality and functional model evolution WP4 Building Europeana v1 Content ingestion. Target of 10 million digitised objects in November Scalable & sustainable ingestion infrastructure and workflow organisation. Production and R&D platforms developed through 8 releases Sept 2009 (M7) technical and logical infrastructure of v 1.0 in place APIs infrastructure M12 First integration of EuropeanaConnect results M15, Launch v1.0 at M18

Aggregators’ content contribution Short term Content using the ESE metadata elements and associated guidelines Simple search, facet refinements and advanced search Content tested in test sites provided by Europeana, normalised, quality checked and ready for ingestion. Delivery methods recommended by Europeana Preparing the mid-term contribution of richer metadata Europeana object model will continue to be specified in Europeana v 1.0 workpackage 3 and will be implemented in Europeana one of the v1.x release

Practical example of short term and longer term objectives Louvre Museum content in Europeana prototype and Europeana Semantic Search Lab Jeune fille à la fenêtre. Jan VICTORS, 1640 Musee du Louvre. INV 1286