Europeana: what next - governance, finance and projects Jill Cousins EDL Foundation MSEG, Luxembourg, 29 January 2009

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o150 network members oALL EU countries oALL sectors represented oOver 4 million items accessible oStandards being agreed & applied oEnormous publicity oEuropeana Beta version back on 18 December 08 oEDL Foundation as governance backbone oFinancial backing from several ministries oBusiness model published Europeana: the successes in 2008

Purpose: to provide cross-domain access to Europes cultural heritage. The Foundation will: facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives, audio- visual archives and libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal. provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding purposes and as a springboard for future governance. The EDL Foundation

Present Shape of the EDL Foundation & its Governance European Associations National Associations National Institutions Regional Institutions Individual museums, archives, libraries Information & dissemination flow Decision Channelling Cross Domain Foundation Associates e.g.: ministries, sponsoring private partners etc

EDL Foundation National Digital Library ACE Film Archive X EurbicaNational 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 Federation of European Publishers Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C A structure for EDL Foundation

Board of Participants current situation Participants can be: A.European Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders B.National Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders C.International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch (non legal entities) of this association D.Relevant individual institutions (legal entities) for one of the domains, E.Natural persons for the benefit of a relevant individual institution or association for one of the Domains, which is not a legal entity.

EDL Foundation Governance EU Funding & Orientation Committee: Commission & Member States Advisory & Budgetary roles Holds legal power & Reports on finance & strategy Executive Committee Board of Participants Council of Content Providers & Aggregators Up to 5 elected Up to 9 elected

Board of Participants Proposal Participants can be: A.European Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders B.International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch (non legal entities) of this association C.Natural persons for the benefit of an association for one of the Domains, which is not a legal entity. D.Existing/Founding members of the Board of Participants and the hosting organisation (BnF, INA, BNS, BA, KB) E.Elected representatives of the Council of Content Providers and Aggregators (5) Old sections B & D deleted:National Associations of Content Holders & Relevant individual institutions

Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (CCPA) Participants can be: A.Content Providers, individual institutions B.Associations of Content Providers C.Aggregators (on all levels and all domains) o5 people/institutions to be elected to the Board of Participants from the Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (1 per Domain and 1 aggregator) oThe CCPA will convene at least 1x per annum for a general assembly oThe CCPA can form Working Groups on specific topics and themes to advise the EDLF and associated projects oMembers of the CCPA will actively be invited to participate in associated projects

Commission Funding & Orientation Committee Participants can be: A.Representatives of Member States that contribute to the EDLF B.Representatives of European Commission oThe Commission Funding & Orientation Committee will advise the EDL Foundation on strategic and budget issues oThe EDL Exec. Committee will inform Commission Funding & Orientation Committee on what is being done with the money and the strategy oThe Commission Funding & Orientation Committee will be chaired by the Commission oThe Commission Funding & Orientation Committee to convene around Member State Expert Group meetings

Next steps oDraft any proposed changes middle February 2009 oExecutive Committee EDL Foundation agrees middle March 2009 oAssess changes in statutes needed and costs middle April 2009 oRatify draft statutes at EDL Foundation Board meeting early June 2009 oInstruct lawyers to change statutes June 2009 oNew statutes and structure in place Autumn 2009

Running oEuropeana Local oEFG oAthena oAPEnet oPrestoPrime oSTERNA In negotiation oEuropeana v1.0 oEuropeanaConnect oBHLEurope oEUScreen oEuropeanaTravel oMIMO oJUDEICA The universe of Europeana 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 Television Archive 1 Television 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 National Digital Libray Fnland EuropeanaLocal Trebleclef PrestoPrime IMPACT BHL MIMO Europeana Connect Judaeica Europeana Travel EUScreen STERNA v1.0 ARROW The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009

Europeana –financial backing for known projects Contributions to date: euros France Netherlands Italy Finland Lithuania Germany BnF Total Need minimum 760,000, would like 1 million euros

image Europeana Europeana´s Value Proposition Aggregator of Interoperable European Content

Image business model blocks Realising the value proposition Business Model Concept

Europeana.eu the Mutual Incentive Business Model

oBudgetary committment from 2011 onwards, against key of monetary distribution oNew funding help to match any new projects in 2009 or 2010 oEncouragement of aggregation at national levels oEncouragement of content delivery from institutions oFunding of digitisation and preservation in institutions oEngagement in the public domain and copyright debates Europeana wishes from Member States

oBuilds network oPushes towards aggregation oMaintains Prototype oGlue for projects oWorks on sustainable financing oWorks on licensing and public domain o10 million items by 2010 oEuropeana v1.0 operational service June 2010 oSurrogate model oReuse Europeana v1.0

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