This slideshow gives an overview what Europeana offers cultural institutions when they join Europeana.

1. Why join Europeana?
A brief overview what Europeana is, why cultural institutions
should join and how.
info@europeana.eu
@EuropeanaEU

2. Content
à What is Europeana?
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• Vision & Mission
• History
• Structure
• Statistics
The mutual benefits
What does Europeana offer?
• Network
• Knowledge
• Technology
• Outreach
How to join?

3. What is Europeana?

4. Europeana’s vision and mission
à Europeana is a catalyst for change in the world of
cultural heritage.
à Our mission: The Europeana Foundation and its Network
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create new ways for people to engage with their cultural
history, whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure.
Our vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly
accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas
and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural
diversity better and contributes to a thriving knowledge
economy.

5. History of Europeana
à April 2005: Jacques Chirac wrote to European Commission President
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José Manuel Barroso, recommending the creation of a virtual
European library
EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate had been supporting
European digital information exchange projects for 15 years
September 2005: publication of EC’s i2010 strategy on digital libraries
2007: European Digital Library Network – EDLnet – began building
Europeana, funded under i2010
November 2008: Europeana prototype launched
Summer 2010: prototype became an operational service funded under
the EC’s CIP ICT-PSP (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
Programme)
January 2011: New Renaissance Report published - endorses
Europeana as ‘the reference point for European culture online’
September 2012: Europeana metadata released under CC0 waiver,
making it freely available for re-use

6. How does Europeana get its content?
à Through its aggregation structure, Europeana represents 2,300
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organisations across Europe
From 150 Aggregators
• Promoting national aggregation structures
• More efficient than working with every individual content provider
• Helps to achieve international standardisation
End-user generated content
• Crowd-sourcing projects such as Europeana 1914-1918 and
Europeana 1989

7. Europeana Aggregator Model
Domain Aggregators
National initiatives
Libraries
National Aggregators
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Culture
Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The
European
Library
Regional Aggregators
Archives
e.g. APEX
Audiovisual
collections
e.g. EUScreen,
European Film
Gateway
Thematic collections
e.g. Judaica Europeana,
Europeana Fashion
e.g. Musées
Lausannois

8. Types of aggregators
Cross
domain
Single
Domain
National Initiatives
National Organisations
National Organisations
Direct Suppliers
National
Europeana
Projects (themes)
Projects (domain)
Single Domain
organisations
Pan-European

9. Europe’s cultural heritage portal
à 29m records from 2,300
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European galleries,
museums, archives and
libraries
Books, newspapers,
journals, letters, diaries,
archival papers
Paintings, maps,
drawings, photographs
Music, spoken word,
radio broadcasts
Film, newsreels,
television
Curated exhibitions
31 languages

10. Countries providing content

11. Why join Europeana?

12. “We are doing the same thing, for the same reason,
for the same people, in the same medium.
We should be doing it together.”

13. Mutual benefits...
What institutions can offer
What Europeana can offer
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High quality metadata
Access to content
Checking of rights
Network Participation
Endorsement
Europeana Network
Legal expertise
Technical expertise
API
Tools
Standards
Metrics
Endorsement
Outreach

14. ...for our users all over the world
à Easy access to high quality metadata and content
à Collect material from different sources and put it in new
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contexts
Connect with other initiatives like the Digital Public Library of
America, Trove.
Make your material available to everyone for creative re-use
Greatly enhance the possibilities for education and research
Make your material findable in search engines
Drive traffic to your site by linking users back to your website.

15. Europeana Network
à Over 800 connected people from Galleries,
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Libraries, Archives, Museums, Creative
Industries, NGO’s and companies
Knowledge sharing platform
Providing a forum for informed debate &
collaboration
Connecting Europeana to the cultural
heritage sector

16. Knowledge
à Europeana has been leading international research on
various topics such as:
• Intellectual Property Right
• Metadata Schemas
• Business Models
• User Engagement
à Europeana is there to help you deal with various issues
à All documentation is openly available online

17. Technology
à Europeana and its partner projects have produced a wide
range of technologies such as:
• The Europeana Data Model (EDM)
• EDM mapping tools
• Public Domain Calculator
• An API
• Embeddable Search Widget
à Europeana is there to help you deal with various issues
à All tools and documentation are openly available online

18. Outreach
à Europeana can put your efforts in a spotlight
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• 50.000 mailing list subscriber
• 23.000 Facebook members
• 12.500 Twitter followers
Work together on blog posts, articles and documentation
• End-user blog - http://blog.europeana.eu
• Professional blog - http://pro.europeana.eu/blog

19. Public Mission
à Reach out to a massive amount of new potential viewers and
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users of your material
Get involved in creative projects that re-use your data in
innovative ways
Helps you achieve your public mission. e.g:
"Enable access to everyone who wants to do research"
- British Library, Our Mission and 2020 Vision
"The Federal Archives have the legal responsibility of permanently preserving
the federal archival documents and making them available for use."
- German Federal Archives - Responsibilities

20. Interested?

21. Get in touch!
à Fill in the Partnership request form you can find below
• (or at: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/providedata#partnerrequestform)
à If you have any questions at the moment, please get in touch
with: potentialpartners@europeana.eu

22. Looking forward hearing from you
potentialpartners@europeana.eu