EUROPEANA : From inspirational idea to sustainable service 5th SEEDI international conference Sarajevo, of May 2010 Anne Marie E. van Gerwen

Content 1. Europeana vision 2. How we get content for Europeana 3. Next steps: reaching end users 4. Future challenges

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

Europeana.eu Mission To inspire ideas and understanding by sharing Europe’s cultural heritage with the world online To enable people to explore the digital resources of Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections

Objectives To maintain and extend a powerful alliance of stakeholders To create an operational service; Europeana.eu To disseminate the service to end-users Promoting discovery and networking opportunities in a space where users can engage, share and be inspired To develop sustainable business model and services

From digital object to end user CONTENT & TECH PROVIDERS AGGREGATORS Objects Metadata Technology services API SERVICE PROVIDERS END USERS

Content, March 2010 Content at prototype launch in 2008: 2 million items Now over 7 million items, 10 million by July 2010 Over 5 million images: photos, paintings, drawings, postcards, posters Almost 2 million texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts, letters 90,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts, public information films 23,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings

Who submits data to Europeana? Europeana Individual institutions Aggregators Projects Institutions 1 st layer 2 nd layer 3 rd layer TEL BAM SCRAN Kultura.hr EFGAPENet ConnectBHL Europe EUScreenJudaica MIMOTravel ATHENA Local CARARE HOPE

Aggregator type 1: thematic MuseumsArchivesLibraries Audio- visual collections Cross-domain aggregators Single Aggregators Thematic aggregators

Aggregator type 2: geographical Single Cross- domain Thematic NationalRegionalEuropeanWorldwide CulturaItalia Culturpool BAM Thuis in Brabant Europeana Direcção- Geral de Arquivos (Portuguese archives) MovE (museums in East Flanders) Dismarc TEL EFG World Digital library WorldCat JudaicaArXiv.orgGreat War Archive

Supported Projects Europeana v1.0 Putting content users’ workflow – APIs - Multilinguality Europeana Connect Mobile applications, semantic enrichment Arrow : Accessible Registries of Rights Information,Orphan Works Ways to identify rights holders, create network of clearance mechanisms PrestoPrime Audiovisual collections: tools and processes for digitization and accessibility

Data Providing Projects Rhine release in 2010 with 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 Judaica: Jewish European cultural heritage Europeana Local: regional libraries and museums EU Screen: TV broadcasts MIMO: Musical Instrument Museums Online And all aggregators supplying directly to Europeana

Forthcoming Projects [1/2] CARARE Aggregation service for the archeology and architectural heritage domain. Establishing point of access to 3D/VR objects. Development of sustainable CARARE network. Heritage Of People's Europe (HOPE) Partnership of European social history institutions aiming at improving access to digital content about the history of the labour movement.

Forthcoming Projects [2/2] Europeana Regia Collaborative initiative between European libraries for the digitisation of royal manuscripts in Medieval and Renaissance Europe and the access to these from Europeana ASSETS – Advanced Search Services and Technological Solutions for the European Digital Library Develop, implement and deploy large-scale services focusing on searching, browsing and interfaces New calls 2010 Mother of Pearl, UGC Digital Stories, Schoolnet

Benefits for providers Reaching out to users Remain relevant Put content where people are Open up your marvelous collections Content remains within the organisation Increasing web traffic to site User interest in viewing items in original context 75% of Europeana user survey respondents thought it very useful to view the searched object in its original context.

Data provided by country, March countries contributing more than 1%

Data Providers, March 2010

Content status, Q From the current objects 75% of content currently comes from 4 countries 50% of content currently comes from 3 aggregators/providers 2/3 of content is currently classified as an image The new content strategy is aimed at addressing this and balancing these figures

Statistics - User survey Online User Survey 6-26 May ,204 completed Replies from 54 countries - 53% of replies from five countries Almost everyone expects to visit the site again – less than 1% says they will not revisit Main route to Europeana is from a paper or journal (47.4%), second most popular is a link from another web site (21%) Personal research is dominant reason (72.9%)

Statistics – Users’ rating of general features Majority rated features and functions as “good” or “excellent”. Around a third of all respondents only rate the general features and functions as “average”.

From digital object to end user CONTENT & TECH PROVIDERS AGGREGATORS Objects Metadata services API SERVICE PROVIDERS END USERS

Future developments driven by users’ needs Gather user feedback and research needs & preferences Translate user insights into user requirements Next releases: virtual exhibitions, timelines, mobile access Improve search functionality and algorythms Search engine optimization Market to end users via Web 2.0 and online communities Develop API for service providers Experiment with User Generated Content

Developing Software and Services EuropeanaLabs.eu allows partners and collaborating projects to: test code and new functionality that is being delivered as part of projects’ work plans develop innovations and additional features that will benefit Europeana use the Europeana source code and representative datasets to experiment with new applications URL to EuropeanaLabs: doc: b1a1-6a55b97b9b6a&groupId=10602 The Europeana.eu source code is made available under a European Union Public Licence [EUPL] open source license Europeana strongly supports the development of Open Source services and tools through EuropeanaLabs!

Challenges for Europeana Content: Make the country contribution of data more equal Reach 10 million items Involve and coordinate new projects Improve (meta) data quality Technical development Transfer the current prototype into a user friendly and maintainable operational service (with virtual exhibitions, searches, timelines, demos, mobile access) Deal with multilinguism, duplicates, Europeana’s semantic schema, guidelines Serach engine optimization

Challenges for Europeana Legal Intellectual Property rights issues Dissemination Capture future user needs Develop funding & revenue models Raise public awareness and increase usage in European countries Join private and public partners

Europeana belongs to all of us created by all of us and to be explored by all of us

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