This document outlines Europeana's proposed business plan for 2014. It discusses transitioning from being a portal to a platform and focusing on data quality. The plan emphasizes increasing engagement with the Europeana network, exploring new funding streams, and positioning Europeana in research, education and creative industries. Key performance indicators include increasing the number of data providers, digital objects, and API implementations. Thematic priorities around World War I content are highlighted for aggregation, distribution and promotion across Europeana's services and networks.

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Thank you Plan 2014
Proposed Business
Jill Cousins @JilCos
Name
December 2, 2013
e-mail

2. Last year of strategic plan 2011-2015
Work is dictated by Projects:
1.Operational:V2/V3
2.Promotion & Innovation: Awareness, Cloud, Creative, Inside
3.New: Sounds, Ambrosia
20 subcontracts

3. Last year of strategic plan 2011-2015
Moving from emphasis on aggregation to distribution

4. Last year of strategic plan 2011-2015
Prepare for the future:
New strategy
New technologies
New emphasis

5. Transition 2014
•Shift from portal to platform
•Data Quality emphasis
•Value creation for contributing partners
•Copyright improvement
•Operational Efficiency
•Multilinguality underlined
•Thematic focus
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Increase activism in Europeana Network
More taskforces
creating results
More promotion of
culture as important
More use of the API

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Investigate new funding streams for the
Europeana ecosystem including incubation
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Telecomms ministers into Culture
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Position Europeana in research, education &
creative industries markets with Europeana Cloud
& Creative’s new Europeana Labs

9. #AllezCulture
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Promote Cultural Commons Principles in new
Europeana Cloud infrastructure

10. #AllezCulture
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Europeana Awareness campaigns continue

12. Strategic12 Objectives for 2014 Plan
2011-2015
 Aggregate – We are building the open,
trusted source for European cultural content
 Facilitate – We support the cultural
heritage sector through knowledge
transfer, innovation and advocacy
 Distribute – We make heritage available to
people wherever they are, whenever they
want it
 Engage – We cultivate new ways
for people to participate in their
cultural heritage

13. Objectives 2014
Improve the database – Quality, Quality, Quality
Widen the network of data providers
Streamline the European aggregation infrastructure
Focus on value added services for aggregators and
data providers;

14. KPIs
Increase number of:
•data providers to Europeana 2300
•digital objects 31
34 million
2,700

15. KPIs
Improve quality of data:
•Introduce rating star system
•rights statement in metadata
•metadata records in EDM
•decent previews
•geo-location data
•persistent links
Promote this data
heavily

16. Objectives 2014
Intellectual Property & Policy & R&D
To continue to develop the framework to increase data
interoperabilty and its reuse potential
IP&P
Promote cultural institution needs’ in the proposed EU
copyright review
R&D To prioritise Multilingualism in the R&D agenda

17. Objectives 2014
Knowledge Management
Re engineer Europeana Pro to match all our needs for a
knowledge sharing platform
Project Management
Help projects by hitting deadlines

18. Objectives 2014
Distribution & Engagement
Use Europeana 1914-1918 as model of everything you
can do if the data is good – thematic focus Promote the data set to the Creative Industries via
Europeana Labs
Find new ways of distributing content: distribution
partnerships in education, research & tourism
Engage users with cultural heritage via exhibitions and
social media working & a new UGC campaign with
Ambrosia on Food & Drink

19. KPIs
• Increase reach & impressions on social media etc
• Deliver Europeana Labs
• Challenges for Creative successful
• 60 active API implementations

20. How?

21. Europeana events 2014
eCloud General
Assembly,
18-19 March,
Athens
Europeana v3.0
Kick-Off &
Presidency event,
Athens
Presidency event,
1 Oct, Rome, Italy
eCollections19141918 Conference
,
30-31 Jan, Berlin
Europeana
Ambrosia
Kick-Off,
14-15 Jan,
London
Jan
eCreative
General
Assembly,
28-29 Jan,
Vienna
Europeana Biz
Plan 2015
workshops,
The Hague, NL
National Network
Meeting,
Athens, Greece
National
Network
Meeting, NL
Feb
EuropeanaTech &
AGM Paris, France
March
April
May
Europeana Creative
Challenge -Education
Europeana
Sounds
Kick-Off, 17-18
Feb, London
June
Europeana
Projects Meeting
July
August
National
Network
Meeting &
Aggregator
Forum, Rome
Sept
Europeana
Awareness
Final Project
Meeting
National
Network
Meeting, Spain
Oct
Nov
Dec
Europeana Creative
Challenge - Tourism
* 15-20 Europeana 1914 – 1918 road show events (# tbc)
* 3 Europeana 1989 road show events
* 4 training workshops on netwotk-relevant topics
* 2 Europeana Board meetings
* Small workshops connecting to other networks, the creative
industries in particular (# tbc)
* Europeana Network Officers meetings (#tbc)
Legend:
Organised by Europeana
Organised by partners

22. Technology & Product Development
-Lay foundation for “Digital Service Infrastructure” –
Portal to Platform
-Implement a Channels infrastructure – first example
Europeana Sounds
-Pilot a Cloud infrastructure with Poznan & TEL
under Europeana Cloud
-Improve ingestion-enrichment-publication cycle
- Release Europeana Labs

23. Thematic Focus means….. Europeana
1914-1918… in everything…..

24. Thematic Focus means….. Europeana
1914-1918… in everything…..
To demonstrate:
•Multilingual improvements
•Link between Institutional &
personal heritage
•Inclusion of API’s (DPLA & Trove)
•Geo Tagging
•User Tagging
•Case study on concept to core
business

25. Thematic Focus means….. Europeana
1914-1918… in everything…..
To reuse in:
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Creative Challenges
eBooks
Google Exhibition Pipeline Prototype
Europeana Research
Wikipedia
Historypin
Jisc WW1 Centenary Hub
Educational Resources: Historiana, BL
Creative Challenges

26. Thematic Focus means….. Europeana
1914-1918… in everything…..

27. Thematic Focus means….. Europeana
1914-1918… in everything…..
To promote in:
Launch of new site in Berlin January 29, 2014
Wiki loves monuments
Europeana Collections 1914-1918 Berlin Conference
House of European History
Social Media

28. Questions or Suggestions?