Europeana – access to millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections - status, development and relation to educational resources Leif Andresen - Danish Agency for Libraries and Media Expert – Europeana v.1.0 EdReNe – Educational Repositories Network 3rd Strategic Seminar – 3 June 2009

PARTNER LOGO Content The presenter Europeana – Political endorsement, Stakeholder involvement and User engagement Europeana - Behind the screen Europeana - relation to educational resources

PARTNER LOGO Leif Andresen Senior Adviser, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media Expert in EDLnet (2007–2009): WP2 Technical & Semantic Interoperability. Work Group Standards & Interoperability of Standards Expert in Europeana v.1.0 (2009–2011): WP3 Further Specification of Functionality and Interoperability aspects of Europeana. Work Group Object model and Metadata Standards: ISO TC46, Dublin Core, RUMLO (2004)

PARTNER LOGO 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

PARTNER LOGO Political endorsement political endorsement stakeholder involvement user engagement

PARTNER LOGO The Commission’s interest in digital information Internet: new ways to deal with information Easy to push information out and to pull information seekers in Interactive: opportunities for dialogue New devices Information on the move The rise of the e-book Changing role/methods of cultural institutions Need to remain relevant Puts the content where the people are New opportunities to engage users

PARTNER LOGO 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

PARTNER LOGO Digital Libraries Initiative Digitisation Avoid duplication / create synergies Strategic and financial planning Public-private partnerships Digitisation facilities Digital preservation Strategies and Standards Digitised from analogue Born digital: legal deposit; web harvesting Online accessibility Intellectual property rights Towards a 20 th century black hole? Orphan and out of print works Barriers to use of public domain material Integrated access Building a common access point: Europeana Standards for file formats and metadata

PARTNER LOGO 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

PARTNER LOGO 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

PARTNER LOGO 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

PARTNER LOGO 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.’

PARTNER LOGO Stakeholder involvement political endorsement stakeholder involvement user engagement

PARTNER LOGO 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

PARTNER LOGO EDLnet - Involving partners Bringing together a operational network of 100+ partners Promoting technology transfer, standards and practices across the heritage domains and between Member States Kick-off conference in September 07 Technical experts contributing to Work Packages Conference February ‘08: feedback on demo version Conference June ‘08: feedback on initial prototype Core group responding to micro releases Top stakeholders – launch invitation and vision briefing

PARTNER LOGO 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 of 6 - including 1 communications professional - to maximise their impact

PARTNER LOGO User engagement political endorsement stakeholder involvement user engagement

PARTNER LOGO Europeana: the prototype, 20 November 2008 Proof of concept web portal Cultural and scientific heritage material from every European country Direct access to 4.2 million digital items 1,000+ contributing organisations Archives, museums, galleries, libraries, sound, film and TV collections Through a multilingual interface in 25 languages

PARTNER LOGO Europeana: the result Press launch 19 November 2008: live demo in Berlaymont Presidential launch 20 November 2008 Average of 10 million hits per hour, peaking at 13 million Site froze: 10 minutes to execute a search Commission advised us to take the site down Reverted to the project development site 80,000 people registered for the eNewsletter Portal relaunched in test mode in December 620 news articles in Europe in November/December 3,360 news items listed in Google global news

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Europeana - Behind the screen Technical requirements Sources Projects

PARTNER LOGO Technical requirements Digitised object available on a website at the object level through a permanent direct link To the object and/or the object in context To a thumbnail or a sample Metadata following the metadata elements set defined by Europeana for the general interface Qualified Dublin Core (at the moment only simple DublinCore Indexed and displayed) a_elements_in_the_Europeana_prototype.pdf Preferably exposed for harvesting on an OAI PMH server

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

PARTNER LOGO 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

PARTNER LOGO Basic Projects EDLnet Thematic network European Digital Library Thematic Partner Network. Prepare the prototype and develop specifications for the future operational service. Specifications delivered. Europeana v1.0 Is the successor network to EDLNet. 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 marketing ensures take up and sustainability, together with longer term financing solutions. Start February 09 ends July 11

PARTNER LOGO Basic Technical Project 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. 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

PARTNER LOGO 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. EFG Creates European Film Gateway (a portal) and makes more film accessible to Europeana. Athena Is an aggregator (no portal). Helps museums bring their content to Europeana.eu. APEnet Creates European Archives Portal and makes more archives accessible to Europeana. PrestoPrime Is a network of excellence for the preservation of audio visual archives and will deliver content to Europeana. STERNA Semantic, web based thematic European reference network application building a distributed digital library focussing on natural science, natural history, and biodiversity material.

PARTNER LOGO 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. EU Screen A portal. Works with standardisation in the audio visual sector and provide solutions to achieve interoperability in the sector. It will develop long term solutions to rights issues. Europeana Travel Overall objective to digitise content on the theme of travel and tourism for Europeana from Europe´s national and research libraries. 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. 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.

PARTNER LOGO 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 Judeica Europeana Travel EUScreen STERNA

PARTNER LOGO Relation to educational resources Europeana started with the libraries Now focus is involvement of museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections But culture and cultural heritage is much more than museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections Many other sectors have digital collections An important sector is the educational sector

PARTNER LOGO Educational Repositories as suppliers Educational Repositories contains and will in the future contain a lot of digital text, images, and movies etc., This digital text, images, and movies etc also are cultural heritage. So the educational sector is an important source for digital content, which ought to be accessible for all European citizens. Educational Repositories must act as suppliers of metadata to Europeana.

PARTNER LOGO The educational sector as user The educational sector is an important user of cultural heritage – so this sector represents key users of Europeana. You can already now search and use. Teachers, pupils and students are candidates to use Europeana not only typing in single words, but also using more sophistically features such as creating own collections. Educational Repositories can use Europeana during machine-to-machine interfaces – and set up specific interfaces to (part of) Europeana.

PARTNER LOGO What to do? Your community (EdReNe) is obvious candidate to play a more active role in relation to Europeana to ensure the development of user interfaces and machine interfaces according to the needs of teachers, pupils and students. EdReNe is also an obvious candidate for connecting Educational Repositories as suppliers to Europeana. Some representatives from theeducational sector (EdReNe?) ought to join Europeana v.1.0 as partners.

PARTNER LOGO Thank you Questions / comments? Contact: Leif Andresen