europeana
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Karin Heijink Europeana Meeting, Belgium 16 December 2009TRANSCRIPT
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EUROPEANA Brussels December 2009Karin Heijink - Business Development Director
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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
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Europeana v1.0
• Successor of EDLNet – proof of concept/prototyp
Objectives
• Maintaining and extending a powerful alliance of stakeholders
• Creation of an operational Europeana service
• Disseminating the service to end users
• Finding a viable organisational solution
• Policy development
• Creating a sustainable funding model.
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EDL Foundation Governance
Funding & Orientation Group Linked to Member States Expert Group
Advisory &
Budgetary rolesHolds legal power &
Reports on finance &
strategy
Executive Committee
Board of Participants
Council of Content Providers & Aggregators
Up to 5/6
elected
Up to 9
elected
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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
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Athena
APEnet
Biodiversity Heritage
Libraries Europe
EUScreen
EuropeanFilmGateway
EuropeanaLocal
EuropeanaTravel
Musical Inst.
Museums Online
Judaica
Europeana
The European Library
EuropeanaConnect
Europeana v.1.0
Europeana Group of Projects
ArrowPrestoPrime
Europeana
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Rhine release Danube release
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Audiences
• Professional Users
• Librarians, curators, archivist
• Educational Users
• Professors/teachers
• Students/pupils
• General Users
• Serious hobbyist (genealogy, local history)
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User survey
•Online User Survey 6-26 May 2009
•3,204 completed
•Replies from 54 countries - 53% of replies from five countries
•Almost everyone expects to visit the site again – less than 1% says they will not revisit
•Main route to Europeana is from a paper or journal(47.4%), second most popular is a link from another web site (21%)
•Personal research is dominant reason (72.9%)
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3. Statistics – Users’ rating of general features
Site navigation Good/excellent AveragePoor/very
poor 100
Search functions Good/excellent AveragePoor/very
poor100
Presentation ofresults
Good/excellent AveragePoor/very
poor100
Ease of access tocontent
Good/excellent AveragePoor/very
poor100
• Majority rate features and functions as “good” or “excellent”. Around a third of all respondents only rate the general features and functions as “average”.
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Content
• Content : 5+ million items from every domain, every EU
member
• 3,500,000 images: photos, paintings, drawings, postcards,
posters
• 1,300,000 texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts,
letters
• 82,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts,
public information films
• 20,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field
recordings
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Spread by country
82% of the content comes from 4 countries
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Spread by provider
70% of the content comes from 4 providers
40%, Culture Fr
12%, Saxon9%, Het Geheugen
van NL
8%,BNF
7%, Scran
5%, Knowledge
Management
4%,
Nasjonalbiblioteket
4%, Kansalliskirjasto
3%,
Stadtgeschitliches
12%, Others
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Content Strategy
• Promotion and support of aggregators
• Collaboration between all Europeana related projects
• Even representation of all European Countries & Cultures
• Increase diversity of types of Content
• Development of relevant themes of content available
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The role of Aggregators
• Business Process
• Content Aggregation & Ingestion Process
• Organisational Model
• Information flow and expertise
• Financial Sustainability
• Broader support & keeping Europeana office small
• End-users
• creating a virtuous cricle
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Content & Information flow
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Activities to promote Aggregation
• Establishement of CCPA & Aggregators Group
• Aggregator Survey
• Aggregator Handbook
• Training
• Developing business models and assessment of cultural and
economic impact of aggregators
• Europeana Content Checker
• Europeana source code
• Identifying potential new aggregators
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Collaboration between projects
• Content Aggregation
• EuropeanaLocal – local and regional aggregators
• Athena – Museums
• Collaboration new partners
• Focus on tier 1 countries
• Focus on audio & audio visual
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Representation of countries
• Identified 3 tiers
• Tier 1 < 1% - high priority
• Tier 2 1-5% - medium priority
• Tier 3 >5% - low priority
• Belgium – 54,311 items
• Now tier 2 country – but only just with 1,09%
• Aim for Summer 2010 – 4% of content – 400,000 items
Join a local or regional aggregator,
help us build the Belgium content in Europeana
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Why joining Europeana?
• Prestigious initiative
• Endorsement from European Commission
• Erasmus Award 2009
• Knowledge exchange with professional network
• Metadata standards
• Best practices
• Technological innovation
• Popularity among users
• User survey results:
� Loyal user base (60% of respondents visiting the site more
than 5 times);
� Overall positive ratings for Europeana features and functions
GP1
GP2
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Dia 21
GP1 Europeana’s cross-domain contentThe value of contributing content to EuropeanaMetadata standardsCase studies demonstrating benefits and best practiceMilestones, deliverables and achievements, notably Rhine releaseForthcoming events – workshops, conferences etcStrategic and policy issuesStaying relevant to usersValue of sharing source code Technolgical innovationaal030; 30/10/2009
GP2 Europeana’s cross-domain contentThe value of contributing content to EuropeanaMetadata standardsCase studies demonstrating benefits and best practiceMilestones, deliverables and achievements, notably Rhine releaseForthcoming events – workshops, conferences etcStrategic and policy issuesStaying relevant to usersValue of sharing source code Technolgical innovationaal030; 30/10/2009
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Why joining Europeana?
• Reaching out to users
• Remain relevant
• Put content where people are
• Open up your marvelous collections
•Content remains within your organisation
• Increase traffic to your site• User interest in viewing items in original context
• 75% of Europeana user survey respondents thought it very useful to view the searched object in its original context.
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Future Vision
Europeana beyond Europeana Version 1.0
• Full services and functionalities
• Greater content
� Summer 2010 Rhine Release
10 million items
� 2011 Danube Release
expect to double content
� By 2012 25 million items
� … Further growing content
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