1. IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA EUROPEANAEUROPEANA Benefits and progress

2. What is EUROPEANA ? ?  A common multilingual and digital access point to Europe’s cultural heritage  Stimulated and co-ordinated by the European Commission  Users will be enabled to search different collections in Europe’s cultural institutions in their own language through a web portal (without having to visit multiple sites or countries) search is free of charge IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 2

3. ? Whom is EUROPEANA aimed at?  Anyone interested in European cultural resources such as literature, history, arts, music, cinema: books, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, records, photographs, films, radio, TV, and the like. The challenges: INTEROPERABILITY - INTERDISCIPLINARITY - MULTILINGUALITY IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 3  End-users: experts and professionals as well as citizens, researchers and scientists as well as school children, students as well as teachers.

4. ?  EUROPEANA’s cross-domain coverage IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 4

5. ?  Why provide content? IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 5  User‘s experience is enriched by Europeana  Europeana exposes metadata to search engines  Europeana drives traffic to your sites  Europeana will provide a set of API‘s  Users expect content to be integrated  Knowledge transfer

6. An Overview of Benefits Political Agenda Key Partners - Aggregators and Content Providers Think Global act Local; Global activities structured and centralised at local level Part of some fast moving developments in portal and technology Traffic; targeting end-user Visibility of your content and institution Network, Projects, Content Council, Thematic Network Europeana Shared Services, activities and tools Europeana WorkGroups Be part of Europeana Future Developments IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 6

7. Aggregators and Content Providers part of Europeana Foundation Governance Funding & Orientation Group Linked to Member States Expert Group Executive Committee Board of Participants Council of Content Providers & Aggregators Up to 6 elected Benefit no. 1 7

8. Political Agenda Helga Trupel, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education - European Parliament Reports “Europeana is a very important project, because it gives people easy access to European culture and heritage worldwide.” The European Parliament Resolution adopted on 5 May 2010: “Europeana should become one of the main reference points for education and research purposes and should be integrated into education systems” Stakeholders - Commission consultation Europeana – Next Steps Benefit no. 2 IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 8

9. Glocal - Think Global act Local MuseumsArchivesLibraries Audio- visual collections Cross-domain aggregators Single Aggregators Thematic aggregators Benefit no. 3 IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 9

10. Data Distribution Channels Europeana Aggregators: Projects & Organizations End-user Content Providers Benefit no. 4 IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 10

11. “However, I find it alarming that only 5% of all digitized books in the EU are available on Europeana. I also note that almost half of Europeana's digitized works have come from one country alone, while all other Member States continue to under-perform dramatically.” Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, 28 August 2009 Moving forwards Benefit no. 5 IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 11

12. September 2009 4.6 mill objects 5 countries contributing more than 1 % IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 12

13. September 2009 9 Data Providers contributing more than 1% IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 13

14. September 2010 13.1 Mill objects 14 countries contributing more than 1% IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 14

15. September 2010, More than 20 providers contributing more than 1% IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 15

16. Aggregators Map overlay Cross domain aggregators Vertical aggregators Legend: Aggregation Landscape Benefit no. 6 16

17. Supported Projects 16 projects 2008 –2010 Rhine release Danube release Benefit no. 7 IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 17

18. 13,1 million objects – Content types IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 18

19. User Statistics www.europeana.eu:www.europeana.eu Benefit no. 8 IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 19

20. Increased traffic and visibility to your content-site Targeting End-users Benefit no. 9 IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 20

21. Improved portal developments Improved search Related items, autosuggestion, ranking Browse Timeline Search Demo’s Virtual Exhibition Applications Mobile Annotations Metadata Improvement Benefit no. 10 IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 21

22. Europeana ADDITIONAL SERVICES ACTIVITIES Annual free access Conference Workshops discovering and exploring important topics which are challenging the cultural sector Presentations at Conferences to support our Partners TOOLS Data Aggregator and Data Provider Agreements Aggregator Handbook Content Checker ThoughtLabs Open Source Code and more to be shared Benefit no. 11 IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 22

23. Europeana shared Groups Thematic Network Council of Content Providers and Aggregators Project Coordinators Group IPR Group Communications Group Technical Group Europeana Group homepage www.group.europeana.eu/ IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 23

24. Europeana CONTACTS Partner Network: annette.friberg@kb.nl Ingestion: Susanna.Summa@kb.nl Communications Jon.Purday@kb.nl Technical: Jan.Molendijk@kb.nl EUROPEANA web site: http://www.europeana.eu IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 24

25. Future Developments Country contributions Tackle IPR and copyright issues Increase quality in data adapt to Europeana’s Data Model Continuosly develop the portal to engage users Multilingualism Funding & revenue models That it remains “hot news” Join private and public partners IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 25

26. EUROPEANA belongs to all of us (Europeans) created by all of us and to be explored by all of us IASA-AMIA 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PHILADELPHIA 26