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EUROPEANA : From inspirational idea to sustainable service 5th SEEDI international conference Sarajevo, 19-20 of May 2010 Anne Marie E. van Gerwen. Content. Europeana vision How we get content for Europeana Next steps: reaching end users Future challenges. Vision.

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  1. EUROPEANA : From inspirational ideato sustainable service5th SEEDI international conference Sarajevo, 19-20 of May 2010 Anne Marie E. van Gerwen

  2. Content • Europeana vision • How we get content for Europeana • Next steps: reaching end users • Future challenges

  3. 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

  4. Europeana.eu Mission To inspire ideas and understanding by sharing Europe’s cultural heritage with the world online To enable people to explore the digital resources of Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections

  5. Objectives • To maintain and extend a powerful alliance of stakeholders • To create an operational service; Europeana.eu • To disseminate the service to end-users • Promoting discovery and networking opportunities in a space where users can engage, share and be inspired • To develop sustainable business model and services

  6. From digital object to end user CONTENT & TECH PROVIDERS API SERVICE PROVIDERS Objects Metadata Technology services END USERS AGGREGATORS

  7. Content , March 2010 • Content at prototype launch in 2008: 2 million items • Now over 7 million items, 10 million by July 2010 • Over 5 million images: photos, paintings, drawings, postcards, posters • Almost 2 million texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts, letters • 90,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts, public information films • 23,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings

  8. EFG APENet TEL ATHENA Connect BHL Europe BAM Local EUScreen Judaica CARARE SCRAN HOPE MIMO Travel Kultura.hr Who submits data to Europeana? Europeana Individual institutions Aggregators 1st layer Projects Institutions 2nd layer 3rd layer

  9. Aggregator type 1: thematic Thematic aggregators Museums Archives Libraries Audio- visual collections Cross-domain aggregators Single Aggregators

  10. Aggregator type 2: geographical National Regional European Worldwide CulturaItaliaCulturpoolBAM Thuis in Brabant Cross-domain Europeana Direcção- Geral de Arquivos (Portuguese archives) World Digital library WorldCat MovE (museums in East Flanders) Dismarc TEL EFG Single Great War Archive Judaica ArXiv.org Thematic

  11. Supported Projects Europeana v1.0 Putting content users’ workflow – APIs - Multilinguality Europeana Connect Mobile applications , semantic enrichment Arrow : Accessible Registries of Rights Information,Orphan Works Ways to identify rights holders, create network of clearance mechanisms PrestoPrime Audiovisual collections: tools and processes for digitization and accessibility

  12. Data Providing Projects Rhine release in 2010 with access to 10 million items from: http://group.europeana.eu Athena: museum objects Archives Portal Europe [APEnet]: national archives Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL-Europe]: texts and taxonomies European Film Gateway: film, scripts, posters, stills Europeana Connect: sound recordings Judaica: Jewish European cultural heritage Europeana Local: regional libraries and museums EU Screen: TV broadcasts MIMO: Musical Instrument Museums Online And all aggregators supplying directly to Europeana

  13. Forthcoming Projects [1/2] • CARARE • Aggregation service for the archeology and architectural heritage domain. Establishing point of access to 3D/VR objects. Development of sustainable CARARE network. • Heritage Of People's Europe (HOPE) • Partnership of European social history institutions aiming at improving access to digital content about the history of the labour movement.

  14. Forthcoming Projects [2/2] • Europeana Regia • Collaborative initiative between European libraries for the digitisation of royal manuscripts in Medieval and Renaissance Europe and the access to these from Europeana • ASSETS – Advanced Search Services and Technological Solutions for the European Digital Library • Develop, implement and deploy large-scale services focusing on searching, browsing and interfaces • New calls 2010 Mother of Pearl, UGC Digital Stories, Schoolnet

  15. Benefits for providers • Reaching out to users • Remain relevant • Put content where people are • Open up your marvelous collections • Content remains within the organisation • Increasing web traffic to 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.

  16. Data provided by country, March 2010 11 countries contributing more than 1%

  17. Data Providers, March 2010

  18. Content status, Q2 2010 From the current objects • 75% of content currently comes from 4 countries • 50% of content currently comes from 3 aggregators/providers • 2/3 of content is currently classified as an image The new content strategy is aimed at addressing this and balancing these figures

  19. Statistics - 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%)

  20. Statistics – Users’ rating of general features • Majority rated features and functions as “good” or “excellent”. Around a third of all respondents only rate the general features and functions as “average”.

  21. From digital object to end user CONTENT & TECH PROVIDERS API SERVICE PROVIDERS Objects Metadata services END USERS AGGREGATORS

  22. Future developments driven by users’ needs • Gather user feedback and research needs & preferences • Translate user insights into user requirements • Next releases: virtual exhibitions, timelines, mobile access • Improve search functionality and algorythms • Search engine optimization • Market to end users via Web 2.0 and online communities • Develop API for service providers • Experiment with User Generated Content

  23. Developing Software and Services EuropeanaLabs.eu allows partners and collaborating projects to: • test code and new functionality that is being delivered as part of projects’ work plans • develop innovations and additional features that will benefit Europeana • use the Europeana source code and representative datasets to experiment with new applications URL to EuropeanaLabs: doc:https://version1.europeana.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=9f7ed5a7-fdaf-404a-b1a1-6a55b97b9b6a&groupId=10602 The Europeana.eu source code is made available under a European Union Public Licence [EUPL] open source license Europeana strongly supports the development of Open Source services and tools through EuropeanaLabs!

  24. Challenges for Europeana • Content: • Make the country contribution of data more equal • Reach 10 million items • Involve and coordinate new projects • Improve (meta) data quality • Technical development • Transfer the current prototype into a user friendly and maintainable operational service • (with virtual exhibitions, searches, timelines, demos, mobile access) • Deal with multilinguism, duplicates, Europeana’s semantic schema, guidelines • Serach engine optimization

  25. Challenges for Europeana • Legal • Intellectual Property rights issues • Dissemination • Capture future user needs • Develop funding & revenue models • Raise public awareness and increase usage in European countries • Join private and public partners

  26. Europeana belongs to all of us created by all of us and to be explored by all of us

  27. Questions? Annemarie.vangerwen@europeana.eu www.europeana.eu Version1.europeana.eu

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