Jill Cousins

1. www.dreams.europeana.eu
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2. Digitising & Making Available
European Cultural Heritage
#AllezCulture
December 4, 2013
Twitter: @JilCos

3. Vision:
Openly accessible digital cultural heritage will foster the
exchange of ideas and knowledge, lead to a better
mutual understanding of our cultural diversity and
support a thriving knowledge economy in Europe
-Council of Europe 2008-

6. Aggregation infrastructure
Domain Aggregators:
• TEL
• APEX
• EUscreen
• EFG
National Aggregators
•15
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7. Access to content
all 28 member
states & in 36
languages
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8. Europeana supports economic growth:
Creative Industries in Europe are growing
fast (estimated 7% per annum) and they
need fuel.
Europeana provides that.
To date 770 businesses, entrepreneurs,
educational & cultural organisations are
re-using our data in websites, apps and
games.

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10. Impact 1:
Europeana Supports Economic Growth
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11. Europeana Labs
Natural History Game
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12. Europeana connects Europe:
open, democratised access to culture
helps all communities across Europe
to understand the past and to
appreciate cross-cultural differences.

13. Impact 2
Europeana connects Europe: open, democratised access to culture helps all
communities across Europe to understand the past and to appreciate cross-cultural
differences.
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16. Europeana makes Europe’s culture
available for everyone:
30 million records under a Creative
Commons Zero public domain
dedication (CC0) means Europe’s
heritage becomes available for re-use
for everyone, young and old

17. Impact 3: Europeana makes Europe’s
Culture available for everyone
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20. BUT

21. The Vision
Library
Museum
Archive
Europeana Platform
(digital service infrastructure)
Europeana
Fashion
AV Collection
Europeana
1914-18
Library
Museum
Archive
Museum

22. And we have some major challenges in
delivering user needs?
• Shift from portal to platform
Multilinguality
• Quality of data
• Copyright
• Clearance
• Correctly labeled
• Cross Border

23. All Public Domain
material freely
available for re-use
Public Domain Rijksmuseum
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24. Develop ‘open, unless’
policies for public material
(without 3rd party rights) to
allow re-use
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25. Ensure that new EU
copyright framework
allows easy noncommercial and cross
border access
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29. Jill.Cousins@kb.nl
Twitter: JilCos
following EuropeanaEU