1 Europeana: and the role of local and regional digital cultural content Belgrade, Serbia 25 September 2008 Rob Davies Co-ordinator, EuropeanaLocal

2 Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) m m m Flagship project of i2010 Flagship project of i2010 Letter by six Heads of State and Government to the European Commission (2005) Letter by six Heads of State and Government to the European Commission (2005) Advocated creation of a virtual European library Advocated creation of a virtual European library Aiming to make Europe’s cultural and scientific records accessible to all Aiming to make Europe’s cultural and scientific records accessible to all Positive response from the Commission Positive response from the Commission Outline strategy: Communication "i2010: Digital Libraries" Outline strategy: Communication "i2010: Digital Libraries" Communication on ‘access to scientific information in the digital age’ (2007) Communication on ‘access to scientific information in the digital age’ (2007)

3 Focus of the DLI Make Europe's rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use online Make Europe's rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use online for work, leisure and/or study for work, leisure and/or study books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc Combine multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models Combine multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models Two strands: Two strands: Cultural heritage: Cultural heritage: build a common European Digital Library build a common European Digital Library Scientific heritage: Scientific heritage: ensure current and future access for research and innovation purposes. ensure current and future access for research and innovation purposes.

4 The EU Vision Across Museums, Archives, Libraries, Audiovisual Archives and other content owners Across Museums, Archives, Libraries, Audiovisual Archives and other content owners Centres of Competence Centres of Competence Access Digitisation Preservation

5 The European Library (TEL) Collaborative platform of 48 CENL national libraries Collaborative platform of 48 CENL national libraries Managed by The European Library Office, Royal Library of Netherlands Managed by The European Library Office, Royal Library of Netherlands Free searching, object level, standardised metadata, multilingual access Free searching, object level, standardised metadata, multilingual access Sequence of projects Sequence of projects TEL TEL TEL-ME-MOR ( ) TEL-ME-MOR ( ) EDL project ( ) EDL project ( ) TELplus ( ) TELplus ( ) Each bringing in more national libraries and advancing technically Each bringing in more national libraries and advancing technically

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7 FUMAGABA index.php TEL project funded by the Swiss Development Agency (2008-9) TEL project funded by the Swiss Development Agency (2008-9) Includes the national library holdings of 10 eastern European countries (all CENL members). Includes the national library holdings of 10 eastern European countries (all CENL members). Albania Albania Armenia Armenia Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Georgia Georgia Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Moldova Moldova Ukraine Ukraine

8 TEL Serbian home page ml

9 “For the users it is not important whether the sources of knowledge and experience are kept by archives, libraries or museums, but to get access to the sources they want, and to be able to use these sources across types of sources and sectors of institutions.” “For the users it is not important whether the sources of knowledge and experience are kept by archives, libraries or museums, but to get access to the sources they want, and to be able to use these sources across types of sources and sectors of institutions.”

10 A structure for EDL? EDL National Digital Library ACE Film Archive X EurbicaNational Archive 1 MICHAEL TEL 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

11  Establish trust between the institutions  Create the organisational structure for a European Digital Library  Tackle domain interoperability issues (standards)  Propose a practical implementation of the European Digital Library (a user defined prototype)  Make recommendations for future research Europeana.Net: goals Europeana.Net: goals

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13 End of 2006: full collaboration among EU National Libraries End of 2006: full collaboration among EU National Libraries From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to Archives, Museums and Audiovisual Archives From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to Archives, Museums and Audiovisual Archives November 2007: EDL Foundation in place November 2007: EDL Foundation in place major European associations of archives, audiovisual archives, museums and libraries as founders major European associations of archives, audiovisual archives, museums and libraries as founders 2,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts, and other cultural works accessible by ,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts, and other cultural works accessible by 2008 At least 6,000,000 works by 2010 At least 6,000,000 works by 2010 The roadmap to a European Digital Library

14 EDL Foundation EURBICAFIATACEEMFCENLLIBERMICHAELKB ICOM Europe CERLINABA European Regional Branch of Intl. Council on Archives Intl. Fed. of Television Archives Association Cinémathèques Europeennes European Museums Forum Conference of European National Librarians Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe National Library of The Netherlands International Council of Museums Europe Consortium of European Research Libraries Institut Audiovisuel, France Bundesarchiv, Germany

15 EuropeanaLocal ( ) Best Practice Network Best Practice Network Improve interoperability of digital content sourced by regional/ local libraries, museums, archives Improve interoperability of digital content sourced by regional/ local libraries, museums, archives 20 million items in this project 20 million items in this project Infrastructure for harvesting and indexing metadata Infrastructure for harvesting and indexing metadata Europe wide network of OAI-PMH repositories/ aggregations Europe wide network of OAI-PMH repositories/ aggregations map existing metadata to Europeana Metadata Application Profile map existing metadata to Europeana Metadata Application Profile local vocabularies processed via SKOS’ local vocabularies processed via SKOS’ Integrated within Europeana prototype service Integrated within Europeana prototype service Establish easy processes for making content/metadata available Establish easy processes for making content/metadata available to Europeana and other services (tourism, education, family history, research to Europeana and other services (tourism, education, family history, research

16 Basic facts Duration 36 months Duration 36 months Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded) Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded) Person-months in total Person-months in total 32 Partners 32 Partners 39 Deliverables 39 Deliverables

17 Europeana content holders Content level (infinite) Local level (1000s) National level (10s) European level (1) European Digital Library Virtual Information Space National Archives National Libraries Aggregated repositories Archives Items & Collections Libraries Items & Collections Museums Items & Collections

18 EuropeanaLocal partners: types of organisation EDLFoundation EDLFoundation 1 Ministry of Culture 1 Ministry of Culture 2 national libraries (as aggregators of local content) 2 national libraries (as aggregators of local content) 2 national museums 2 national museums 3 national cultural agencies 3 national cultural agencies 5 regional cultural authorities 5 regional cultural authorities 7 public libraries 7 public libraries 1 local museum 1 local museum 1 research foundation 1 research foundation 1 regional digital library provider 1 regional digital library provider 7 private sector organisations 7 private sector organisations

19 Variable starting points Advanced practice in implementing digital libraries, portals, OAI-PMH etc Advanced practice in implementing digital libraries, portals, OAI-PMH etc France, Norway, Poland, Spain, UK France, Norway, Poland, Spain, UK Limited progress Limited progress Bulgaria, Greece, Romania etc Bulgaria, Greece, Romania etc Somewhat centralised to very regional/local Somewhat centralised to very regional/local Phased approach Phased approach

20 Contributing content – not straightforward Content collections items and resources Content providers, mediators and aggregators Machine-to-machine technologies End-user service technologies EDLocal content provider organisation Content XML/HTTP Resources Collections Metadata harvesting Legacy databases Standards Items IPR Metadata OCR Mining Commission EDLocal Michael EDL Foundation Committee of Regions National Cps Ministries of Culture Local Cps Regional Cps National initiatives Thematic networks MinervaTEL Tagging Folksonomies Ontologies OWL RDF OAI-PMH SemanticWeb Meta noise Taxonomies Collabularies Search engines Geography Deep content Web Services Web 2.0 Future services Syndication/RSS/Atom XML/HTTP WIKIs Participation Blogs Open Source Multi-lingual services Business models AJAX IPR EDLnet Application profiles Authentication Controlled vocabularies Payment i2010 Google TELplus TEL-ME-MOR Europeana Fedora DSpace Greenstone SKOS

21 Important local content types Items and collections of high cultural value (‘treasures’) held at local or regional level Items and collections of high cultural value (‘treasures’) held at local or regional level Specific local collections held by libraries, museums and archives, local audio-visual archives Specific local collections held by libraries, museums and archives, local audio-visual archives Public domain ‘cultural’ records held by archives etc. Public domain ‘cultural’ records held by archives etc.

22 Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Item metadata URL Collection metadata Object Reuse and Exchange Object data OAI-PMH Repository & Toolkit Metadata storage Object data model for storage of metadata according to a joint EDLocal application profile Data migration toolkit Tools to facilitate migration of metadata from existing object data model to repository including harmonization Web Service GetRecord, Identify, ListIdentifiers, ListMetaDataFormats, ListRecords, ListSets

23 Future steps  Europeana VI delivers first release early 2010  Institutions/aggregators use Europeana Semantic Elements  Need to deal with ‘place’ and geographic metadata  Locally-implemented processes for metadata enrichment?  Monitor new infrastructural standards  RSS/|ATOM  Semantic web  Social networks  Collections  Rights expression (C20 black hole)  Identifiers  Interest in object models (ORE/OAI) for Europeana V1  Data may need to be reindexed by Europeana

24 Other eContentplus projects supporting Europeana ATHENA (museums) ATHENA (museums) European Film Gateway European Film Gateway ARROW (public domain database) ARROW (public domain database) APENet (national archives) APENet (national archives) And now…….Europeana V1, EuropeanaConnects etc And now…….Europeana V1, EuropeanaConnects etc After eContentplus …CIP Policy Support Progamme After eContentplus …CIP Policy Support Progamme Pilot actions Pilot actions January 2009 call January 2009 call 100 million EUR 100 million EUR

25 Funding for new countries to join Europeana? CENL CENL eContentplus eContentplus They will use digital content if it is there, but won’t pay (yet) They will use digital content if it is there, but won’t pay (yet) CIP programme CIP programme CH Research programme CH Research programme Culture programme Culture programme National funding National funding Third party funding Third party funding

26 Europeana and Serbia Become interoperable with Europeana Become interoperable with Europeana Adopt Europeana standards/infrastructure Adopt Europeana standards/infrastructure OAI-PMH repositories OAI-PMH repositories Europeana metadata application profile Europeana metadata application profile Decide on a sensible level of aggregation Decide on a sensible level of aggregation Digitise Digitise Set up centres of competence on digitisation Set up centres of competence on digitisation Train people Train people Establish some priorities for digitisation Establish some priorities for digitisation Work ‘cross domain’ Work ‘cross domain’ that is: work with archives, audio-visual archives, museums that is: work with archives, audio-visual archives, museums

27 Thank You!! Rob Davies Scientific Co-ordinator EuropeanaLocal