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EUROPEANA : From inspirational ideato sustainable service 5th SEEDI international conference
Sarajevo, 19-20 of May 2010
Anne Marie E. van Gerwen
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1. Europeana vision
2. How we get content for Europeana
3. Next steps: reaching end users
4. Future challenges
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
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
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
From digital object to end user
CONTENT & TECH PROVIDERS
AGGREGATORS
Objects Metadata
Technology
services
API
SERVICE PROVIDERS
END USERS
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
Who submits data to Europeana?
Europeana
Individual institutionsAggregators
Projects Institutions
1st layer
2nd layer
3rd layer
TEL
BAM
SCRAN
Kultura.hr
EFG APENet
Connect BHL Europe
EUScreen Judaica
MIMO Travel
ATHENA
Local
CARARE
HOPE
Aggregator type 1: thematic
Museums Archives LibrariesAudio-visual
collections
Cross-domain aggregators
Single
Aggregators
Thematic aggregators
Aggregator type 2: geographical
Single
Cross-domain
Thematic
National Regional European Worldwide
CulturaItaliaCulturpool
BAM
Thuis in Brabant
Europeana
Direcção-Geral deArquivos
(Portuguesearchives)
MovE(museums in
East Flanders)
DismarcTEL EFG
World Digitallibrary
WorldCat
Judaica ArXiv.orgGreat War Archive
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
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
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.
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
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.
Data provided by country, March 2010
4%3% 2% 2%1% 5%
5%
5%
6%
13%43%
13%
FranceGermanyUKNLPolandNorway Sweden FinlandSloveniaItaly GreeceOthers
11 countries contributing more than 1%
Data Providers, March 2010
28%
14%
9%6%6%5%
4%4%
3%3%
2%
16%
CULTURE FR
BnF, FR
Saxon, GE
CultureGrid, UK
GeheugenNL
Scran, UK
Federaica Bi, PL
KNOWLEDGEMANAGEMENT, SWNATIONAJSBIO, NO
KANSALLIJA, FI
STADTGESCH, GE
OTHERS
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
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%)
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”.
From digital object to end user
CONTENT & TECH PROVIDERS
AGGREGATORS
Objects Metadata services
API
SERVICE PROVIDERS
END USERS
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
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!
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
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
Europeana belongs to
all of us
created by all of us and
to be explored by all of us
www.europeana.euVersion1.europeana.eu
