Europeana – Wunderkammer of tomorrow

Jill Cousins

Museum & Change III,

Digitisation & Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage

19 February 2009

“A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search

Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by

different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “

European Union Communiqué August 2006

www.europeana.eu

Europeana.eu –The Vision

150 network members,

Beta version of Europeana.eu

ALL EU countries

ALL sectors represented

Nearly 5 million items

Standards being agreed

Domains talking

publicity

Europeana Now

image Europeana

Aggregator and Distributor of Interoperable

European Culture

Image business model blocks

Business Model Concept

Realising the Value Proposition

Corporate sponsors

Europeana:

the Mutual Incentive Business Model

Image business model market partners

Users

Aggregators and Partners

Other Business Opportunities

Commission & Ministries

Open source development

API’s/Web services

Semantic Operations

New creative uses

Content Aggregation & Processing

Systems,Semantics &

Projects

Europeana Aggregator and Facilitator

Standards & Guidelines

R&D

Purpose:

• to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage.

So the Foundation w ill:

• facilitate formal agreement across Museums, Archives, Audiovisual collections and Libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal.

• provide a legal framew ork for use by the EU for funding purposes and as a springboard for future governance.

EDL Foundation Governance

Commission Funding & Orientation Committee: Commission & Member States

Advisory &

Budgetary rolesHolds legal power &

Reports on finance &

strategy

Executive Committee

Board of Participants

Council of Content Providers & Aggregators

Up to 5

elected

Up to 9

elected

Europeana –financial backing for known projects

Contributions to date:

euros

France 200000 (incl.30K from BnF)

Netherlands 200000

Italy 72500

Finland 30000

Lithuania 18805

Germany 200000 (2009,2010)

Total 721305

Need minimum 760,000, would like 1 million euros

NL 1 NL 2 NL 3

EDL

National Digital Library

ACE

Film Archive X

Eurbica National Archive 1

MICHAELCENL

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

National Aggregators

Culture.fr,etc

EuropeanaLocal

Trebleclef

PrestoPrime

IMPACT

BHL

MIMO

Europeana

Connect

Judeica

Europeana

Travel

EUScreen

STERNA

v1.0

TELplus

The Europeana Universe of projects 2009

Arrow

Europeana v1.0 February 09 – July 11

• Successor network to EuropeanaNet.

• Turns current prototype into an operational service.

• Europeana v1.0 Aggregator and Distributor

• Creates an API architecture

• Pushes towards aggregation

• End user user marketing for take up and sustainability.

• Longer term financing solutions.

• Glue for projects

• Europeana v1.0 operational service July 2010

Europeana v1.0

The issues and benefit to Museums of Europeana

• Issues:

• Lack of digitised material

• Poor, missing or ambiguous metadata

• Each museum or exhibition is one of a kind

• Benefits:

• Virtual repatriation

• New exhibitions

• New traffic

Competitiveness & Innovation Programme

• THEME 2: DIGITAL LIBRARIES

• Objective 2.1: European Digital Library – Services

• Objective 2.2: European Digital Library – Aggregating digital content in

Europeana

• Objective 2.3: European Digital Library – Digitising content for Europeana

• Objective 2.4: Open access to scientific information

• Objective 2.5: Use of cultural heritage material for education

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm

Types of projects being proposed

Content

• Aggregating Content for Research Libraries

• Archaeology & Architecture

• Digital Stories, User Contributed Content

• Digitisation in themes, Romani and People, Cities, Place

• Space exploration – Galileo. Gagarin, Gemini – Science Museums

• Virtual Prints – Rijksmuseum, British Museum, Prado, Louvre

Tools and Services

• The European Library – TEL Research & Education Widget

• PolarEx

• Commercial Re-Use of Europeana Content – e.g.TomTom

• Educational Re-Use of Europeana Content – Schoolnet

wolfgang mozart

Questions?