why join europeana?

Why join Europeana?A brief overview what Europeana is, why cultural institutions

should join and how.

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Content

à What is Europeana?• Vision & Mission• History• Structure• Statistics

à The mutual benefitsà What does Europeana offer?

• Network• Knowledge• Technology• Outreach

à How to join?

What is Europeana?

Europeana’s vision and mission

à Europeana is a catalyst for change in the world of cultural heritage.

à Our mission: The Europeana Foundation and its Network create new ways for people to engage with their cultural history, whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure.

à Our vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural diversity better and contributes to a thriving knowledge economy.

History of Europeana

à April 2005: Jacques Chirac wrote to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, recommending the creation of a virtual European library

à EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate had been supporting European digital information exchange projects for 15 years

à September 2005: publication of EC’s i2010 strategy on digital librariesà 2007: European Digital Library Network – EDLnet – began building

Europeana, funded under i2010à November 2008: Europeana prototype launched à Summer 2010: prototype became an operational service funded under

the EC’s CIP ICT-PSP (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme)

à January 2011: New Renaissance Report published - endorses Europeana as ‘the reference point for European culture online’

à September 2012: Europeana metadata released under CC0 waiver, making it freely available for re-use

How does Europeana get its content?

à Through its aggregation structure, Europeana represents 2,300 organisations across Europe

à From 150 Aggregators• Promoting national aggregation structures• More efficient than working with every individual content provider• Helps to achieve international standardisation

à End-user generated content• Crowd-sourcing projects such as Europeana 1914-1918 and

Europeana 1989

Europeana Aggregator Model

Domain Aggregators National initiatives

Audiovisual collections

National Aggregators

Regional AggregatorsArchives

Thematic collections

Libraries

e.g. Musées Lausannois

e.g. Culture Grid,

Culture.fr

e.g. The European Library

e.g. APEX

e.g. EUScreen, European Film Gateway

e.g. Judaica Europeana, Europeana Fashion

Types of aggregators

Pan-European

National InitiativesNational Organisations

National OrganisationsDirect Suppliers

EuropeanaProjects (themes)

Projects (domain)Single Domainorganisations

National

SingleDomain

Crossdomain

à 29m records from 2,300 European galleries, museums, archives and libraries

à Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers

à Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs

à Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts

à Film, newsreels, television

à Curated exhibitionsà 31 languages

Europe’s cultural heritage portal

Countries providing content

Why join Europeana?

“We are doing the same thing, for the same reason, for the same people, in the same medium.

We should be doing it together.”

Mutual benefits...

à High quality metadataà Access to contentà Checking of rightsà Network Participationà Endorsement

à Europeana Networkà Legal expertiseà Technical expertiseà APIà Toolsà Standardsà Metricsà Endorsementà Outreach

What Europeana can offerWhat institutions can offer

...for our users all over the world

à Easy access to high quality metadata and contentà Collect material from different sources and put it in new

contextsà Connect with other initiatives like the Digital Public Library of

America, Trove. à Make your material available to everyone for creative re-useà Greatly enhance the possibilities for education and researchà Make your material findable in search enginesà Drive traffic to your site by linking users back to your website.

à Over 800 connected people from Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Creative Industries, NGO’s and companies

à Knowledge sharing platformà Providing a forum for informed debate &

collaboration à Connecting Europeana to the cultural

heritage sector

Europeana Network

Knowledge

à Europeana has been leading international research on various topics such as:• Intellectual Property Right• Metadata Schemas • Business Models • User Engagement

à Europeana is there to help you deal with various issuesà All documentation is openly available online

Technology

à Europeana and its partner projects have produced a wide range of technologies such as: • The Europeana Data Model (EDM)• EDM mapping tools• Public Domain Calculator • An API • Embeddable Search Widget

à Europeana is there to help you deal with various issuesà All tools and documentation are openly available online

Outreach

à Europeana can put your efforts in a spotlight• 50.000 mailing list subscriber• 23.000 Facebook members• 12.500 Twitter followers

à Work together on blog posts, articles and documentation• End-user blog - http://blog.europeana.eu• Professional blog - http://pro.europeana.eu/blog

Public Mission

à Reach out to a massive amount of new potential viewers and users of your material

à Get involved in creative projects that re-use your data in innovative ways

à Helps you achieve your public mission. e.g:

"Enable access to everyone who wants to do research" - British Library, Our Mission and 2020 Vision

"The Federal Archives have the legal responsibility of permanently preserving the federal archival documents and making them available for use." - German Federal Archives - Responsibilities

Interested?

Get in touch!

à Fill in the Partnership request form you can find below • (or at: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/provide-

data#partnerrequestform)à If you have any questions at the moment, please get in touch

with: potentialpartners@europeana.eu

Looking forward hearing from you

potentialpartners@europeana.eu