Europeana 1914-1918.eu, a digital resource Jill Cousins

1. Unlocking Sources:
Europeana 1914-1918.eu
a digital resource
January 30 2014, Berlin
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2. The Idea: ‘The Union shall
respect its cultural and linguistic diversity,
and shall ensure that Europe’s cultural
heritage is safeguarded and enhanced’Article 3 Lisbon Treaty

3. The Europeana Network
CC-BY-SA
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4. The diversity of the Content
PD Hispana: A New Chart of Holland with the Entrances to
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the Scheld, &c [Mapa] 1802

5. The Europeana Data Model
CC-BY Gulltaggen
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6. CC0 Public Domain Mark
‘The largest single dedication of cultural data to
the Public Domain’*
*Jonathan Gray, the Guardian

7. Europeana1914-1918.eu
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8. #Allezculture!

10. Connecting Europe
Facility

11. Access we aim to provide a set of high-quality reusable content, tools and services to enable creativity and
innovation. It’s about making our digital objects as widely
available as possible, with licences that give people the
opportunity to do new things with them.
CC-BY-SA
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12. Mutuality we are a community, based on the
principles of achieving mutual benefit, acting in good faith
and presuming it on behalf of others.
CC-BY-SA
www.fansshare.com
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13. Attribution we are committed to the principle of
respecting rights through acknowledgement and attribution.
CC-BY-SA
Europeana

14. Shift from Portal to
Platform
“Portals are for visiting, platforms are for building on*”
*Tim Sherrat, Trove
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15. Portal
Exhibitions
In
Out
Pro
Portal
UIM
14-18
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16. Exhibitions
Platform
Services
14-18
Labs
1989
Food & drink
B2C
Infrastructure
B2B
Core
Research
EDM
API
B2N
UIM
Pro
Wiki- upload
Dashboard
Sparql

17. Europeana Value chain
“reach the people who can reach the people”*
Content
Providers
*Nick Poole
Aggregators
Distributors
Users

18. Europeana Commons
Users
Aggregators
Distributors
Powered by Europeana
Institutions

19. What does that mean
in practice?

20. 1. to make available high
quality material
Preserve
Use

21. 2. To Support the Public
Domain
“What is in the public domain should stay in the public
domain”
Public Domain Rijksmuseum
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22. 3. To enable re-use
“Develop ‘open, unless’ policies for public material without
3rd party rights that allow re-use. Enable non-commercial
use and cross-border access”
CC-BY-SA Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / NIBG
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23. 4. To improve
discoverability:
“ensure that you can discover my culture in your
language”
CC-BY-NC Nothrills
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24. 5. Value for partners
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CC-BY 2.0 Alex (courtesy Europeana Creative WP4)

25. Europeana 1914-1918

26. 1. to make available high
quality material

27. 2. To Support the Public Domain
“What is in the public domain should stay in the public
domain”
Public Domain Rijksmuseum 27
Public Domain Filmoteca Espanola

28. 3. To enable re-use
“Develop ‘open, unless’ policies for public material without 3rd
party rights that allow re-use. Enable non-commercial use and
cross-border access”
CC-BY-SA Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / NIBG
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29. Europeana Education site on WW1

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31. 4. To improve discoverability:
“ensure that you can discover my culture in your language”
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32. 5. Value for partners
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34. Europeana 1914-1918
Centenary

35. 2014-2018: Centenary of the Great War

36. Europeana1914-1918.eu
Untold stories & official histories of WW1
“Explore stories, films and historical material about
the First World War and contribute your own family
history. Europeana 1914-1918 mixes resources from
libraries and archives across the globe with
memories and memorabilia from families throughout
Europe.”

37. Main event timeline for 2014
Collection Days
Austria
Francis Ferdinand
assassinated
Unlocking
Sources&collection
days
30-31 Jan, Berlin
Austria declared
war on Serbia
Collection Days
Netherlands
Collection Days
Portugal
First Battle of Ypres, Turkey
entered war
Battle of Marne
Conference Digitised
Heritage WW1 - BNF, Paris
Jan
Feb
March
Round Table NL
campaign, KB
April
May
Collection Days
Greece
June
Collection
Days
Serbia
Britain declared
war on Germany
July
Collection Days
Bosnia
August
Sept
Oct
E1418 Workshop,
Istanbul
Nov
Dec
Collection
Days
Croatia
[tbc]

38. Thematic Focus means….. Europeana
1914-1918… in everything…..
To demonstrate:
•Multilingual improvements
•Link between Institutional &
personal heritage
•Inclusion of API’s (DPLA, DigitalNZ &
Trove)
•Geo Tagging
•User Tagging

39. Thematic Focus means….. Europeana
1914-1918… in everything…..
To reuse in:
Creative Challenges
eBooks
Google Exhibition Pipeline Prototype
Europeana Research
Research Hubs
Wikipedia
Historypin
Social Media: Pinterest,
Retronaut…….
Jisc WW1 Centenary Hub

40. 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

41. Thank
you…..
for your
deeds
jill.cousins@europeana.eu
@JilCos