Japanese Digital Archive Initiative‘A history of Europeana in 3 acts’Harry Verwayen | the University of Tokyo 28 November 2016
The Great Wave of KanagawaNational Museum of Fine Arts (Valletta, Malta)CC BY-NC-ND
1. Think Big
Presentation
Article by Soichi Tokizane
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April 2005 Jacques Chirac’s tells EC his big ideaJuly 2007 EDLnet starts building EuropeanaNovember 2008 Europeana prototype (Portal) launched Summer 2010 Prototype becomes a service September 2012 Europeana metadata released as CC0May 2015 Europeana Digital Service InfrastructureJune 2016 European Union reconfirms support in Council Conclusions
10 years Europeana
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Our Big Idea
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Our Big Idea
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Enumerate report
What did we learn?• Having a Big Idea is really important to secure political backing
• Political backing is essential for funding and for implementing policy
change
• Unless your Big Idea is defined really well, it will be open for
interpretation
• Political backing requires constant stakeholder management
2.Start Small
Girl in a White Kimono | Breitner, George 1894RIjksmuseumPublic Domain
•53,604,836 digital objects in Europeana.eu
•All 28 member states contribute, but not equally
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•> 3.500 institutions participate
• Through less than 150 aggregators (National and Domain)
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• Institutions feel unconnected to Europeana
• Institutions have lost connection with end users