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Europeana & the cultural heritage
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Access to Culture through the Digital Shift
Ready for Tomorrow. Vilnius, 1-2 September 2013

2. “Much more than an economic alliance,
Europe has to become a cultural union”
Robert Schuman on the Founding of
ECC, 1951

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5. Funding Cultural
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7. Why is Europeana important?
Impact, Impact, Impact….
Europeana supports economic growth
Europeana connects Europe
Europeana makes Europe’s culture available to everyone

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.

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

12. Impact 2:
Europeana Connects Europe
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13. Europeana makes Europe’s culture
available for everyone:
29 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

14. Impact 3: Europeana makes
Europe’s Culture available for
everyone
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15. Supply/Distribution chain
Content
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Users
Need a similar scalable setup on the distribution side.
- Accessing communities of use or networks: Schoolnet, Wikipedia, & social
networks (pinterest, tumbler, facebook, etc.)
- Creating end-user driven sites: Europeana 1914-1918, 1989, Fashion, Research
- Hosting a lab where developers, media artists and entrepreneurs can create new
things from old clothes - Europeana Labs
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17. Europeana Labs
An innovative space for use by
developers, media artists,
entrepreneurs and creatives to
access the content, data, tools &
services of Europeana the Digital
Service Infrastructure for Cultural
Heritage.
Launching early 2014 with a couple
of pilots

18. Europeana: Serious Adventure Game –
Natural History Puzzle

19. Europeana Education site on WW1

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Jill.Cousins@kb.nl
Twitter: JilCos
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22. Content
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Chapter 2
Chapter 3

23. Content
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Chapter 2
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