Europeana – extending our reach Carlo Meghini CNR ISTI Pisa 11. konference Archivy, knihovny, muzea v digitálním světě 2/12/2010

Europeana: the vision ‘A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European cultural heritage.’ European Parliament, 27 September 2007 ‘A unique resource for Europe's distributed cultural heritage… ensuring a common access to Europe's libraries, archives and museums.’ Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Information Society Directorate, European Commission NKP

Europeana’s communications model political endorsement stakeholder involvement user engagement NKP 2010

Growing political engagement European Commission funding projects thatSince the 1990s promote interoperability of European information Google Print’s library partnerships announced December 2004 Letter from 6 Heads of State to the President of theApril 2005 European Commission Commission launches i2010, a 5 year digital-led June 2005 strategy for growth and jobs The Commission’s Directorate for Information Society September 2005 and Media launches Digital Libraries Initiative NKP 2010

Gaining political momentum Commission recommendation to Member States August 2006 to create a European digital library Endorsement by the Council of Culture Ministers November 2006 representing all the Member States Outcome: European digital library (EDL) Thematic Network July 2007 to 18-month project March 2009 Funded by the digital libraries initiative under the eContentplus call To create a prototype web portal: Europeana ELDC

The Commission’s objectives for Europeana To create a multilingual public-domain access point to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage To use digitised cultural and scientific heritage resources as input for a wide range of information products and services To play a key role in the future growth of sectors such as learning and tourism To inspire new creative enterprise and innovation To promote understanding of our common European background and the sense of a European identity ELDC

Achieving political endorsement European Parliament votes to support a multilingual September 2007 access point to Europe’s common heritage Commission issues Communication detailing eachAugust 2008 Members’ progress on the digital libraries initiative Europeana strategy briefing for policy advisors and October 2008 digital strategists in all Ministries of Culture Council of Culture Ministers meeting publishes 20 November 2008 Conclusions on the European digital library which express strong political support NKP 2010

Council conclusions, 20 November 2008 ‘ Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material are essential to highlight cultural heritage, to inspire the creation of new content and to encourage new online services to emerge. They help to democratise access to culture and knowledge and to develop the information society and the knowledge-based economy.’ NKP 2010

Europeana’s communications model political endorsement stakeholder involvement user engagement NKP 2010

Top-level stakeholder buy-in EDL Foundation: Board of participants from the professional heritage 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 NKP 2010

Involving partners Promoting technology transfer, standards and practices across the heritage domains and between Member States Technical experts contributing to Work Packages Developing services for the Europeana website ELDC

The communications multiplier The EDL Foundation Board members communicate to their communities, focusing on the messages that are relevant to them The partners communicate in their own language with colleagues national professional networks national media: translated press releases; articles visitors and end-users: links on websites; newsletters Enabling Europeana’s core team to maximise their impact NKP 2010

Europeana’s communications model political endorsement stakeholder involvement user engagement NKP 2010

Result: Europeana prototype Europeana.eu launched in November 2008 Cultural and scientific material from every European country 1,000+ contributing organisations Multilingual interface in 25 languages Overwhelming public interest NKP 2010

Europeana’s communications model political endorsement stakeholder involvement user engagement NKP 2010

Europeana facts Last press release: 18/11/ millions objects are searchable and accessible through the Europeana portal  64% images: Digitised photographs, maps, paintings, museum objects and other images, posters  34%: digitised texts, including more than 1.2 million complete books that can be viewed online and/or downloaded. The texts cover thousands of rare manuscripts and the earliest printed books (incunabula) from before  2% videos and sound materials: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts, public information films, cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings NKP 2010

Europeana facts Over 1,000 heritage collections Libraries; museums; galleries; archives; sound, film and TV collections Through a multilingual interface Much of the material accessible through Europeana is out of copyright, items difficulties and cost of rights clearance to digitise and give access to in-copyright material or material whose potential right-holders are unknown (orphan works) NKP 2010

Contributors France17.98 % Germany17.10 % Sweden9.69 % Spain8.85 % The Netherlands7.89 % Italy7.03 …. Czech Republic0.08 % …. NKP 2010

Athena APEnet Biodiversity Heritage Libraries Europe EUScreen European Film Gateway Europeana Local Musical Inst. Museums Online Judaica Europeana The European Library EuropeanaConnect Europeana v.1.0 Europeana Group of Projects Arrow Presto Prime Europeana NKP 2010 ASSETS

Czech participation LIBRARIES (Contact point: National Library of the Czech Republic) Erich, The European Library, ARCHIVES (Contact point: The National Film Archive in Prague) The European Film Gateway, MUSEUMS (Contact point: National Museum) Athena (Access to Cultural Heritage Networks Across Europe), Archaeology and Conservation (Contact point: National Heritage Institute) Carare, NKP 2010

Content stays in its original website Content remains within your organisation Drives traffic to your website Gives users access to vast amounts of information via your organisation’s website Users are interested in going back to the content provider’s website NKP 2010

Europeana Milestones June 2010 Rhine Release 10 million items Spring 2011 Danube Release By million items … Further growing content NKP 2010

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