'Europeana creating the backbone', presentation by Jill Cousins at Future Everything conference, 22 March 2013, Manchester

1. Europeana – Creating the Backbone
22.03.13 Future Everything, Manchester

4. 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-

5. Aggregated
• 2200+ content
providers
• 173 aggregators
• 26.9 million objects

6. Network
• 600+ individual
members, working
in taskforces and
on strategy
Breakdown
Galleries: 2
Libraries: 111
Archives: 26
Museums: 60
National Aggs: 22
Publishers: 2
Creative Ind: 5
Research: 78
Ministries: 9
Other: 174

9. APENET
National Archive
2008-2011

12. The key to being able to make the switch from Aggregator to
Distributor serving the user wherever they are was changing the
licensing framework

13. Our interaction with users is still very much ‘push’

14. in this ‘linear model’, there is not enough sense of shared ownership
and cooperation

15. in the current governance structure the ‘users’ take no part

16. Can we rethink Europeana as a Commons or set of Commons?

20. Mutuality
Access
Attribution
ConsistencyEngagement
European Cultural Commons Principles

21. Next steps are to apply the
principles to 3 pilots to find out
what works, what doesn’t, what
needs negotiating:

22. Repository
Core Platform
An infrastructure commons:
3-year project
Europeana
Cloud
Cloud-based
infrastructure for
the storage &
sharing of data &
content
Offering
economies of
scale
With access to
knowledge &
solutions for
sustainability,
licensing
&governance

23. A Research Commons:
Europeana
Research:
Cross-domain
platform to support
digital scholarship
Emphasis on open
access content,
tools and services
Data from
Europeana but
also content from
willing museum,
library, archive,
audio visual
providers
TEL
researcher
cultural tourist
Europeana
Europeana Research
DARIAH
DANS
CESSDA
CLARIN

24. A Cultural Tourism Commons:
Europeana Creative
Open Culture Labs
• Pilots:
working with cultural
tourism providers
•Content Reuse to
Generate footfall
Knowledge
ROI from sales

26. Europeana
Open Lab
Network

27. Opportunities?

28. Endless

30. Slide with bullets
First level
• Second level
• Third level

32. Make use
of the API

33. Europeana SPARQL
Endpoint

34. Europeana Linked
Open Data

36. Jill Cousins
Jill.Cousins@kb.nl
Thank you

37. •http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/je9 HTML5 Music Player

39. Europeana Data
Model

40. Europeana API

41. Where caring is sharing and the world is a better place
@guardian weekly -photographer: jean baptiste lopez

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43. Continue:
•good husbandry
•Developing a common, accessible, usable
infrastructure
•improving quality of the content and data
•opening up more data for reuse
•working on standards and interoperability
•campaign on rights labelling