Memory

1. Europeana
Awareness
Best Practice
Network
Creating a buzz
around
Europeana
www.europeana.eu

4. Engage
publicise Europeana to users, policy
makers, politicians and cultural heritage
organisations in every Member State

5. promote its use by a broad public for a
variety of purposes
engage users via User Generated Content,
digital stories and social networking

6. Facilitate
• Europeana Awareness
will develop new
partnerships with key
sectors which are
currently underexploited
by Europeana:
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public libraries
local archival groups
broadcasters
tourism
open culture re-users

7. Distribute
• Commitment to open
culture and re-use
• New distribution
channels for
Europeana content
working with the
tourism sector,
education, family
history services,
broadcasters

8. Aggregate
Build the trusted source
for cultural heritage.
• 30 million CH items now indexed by Europeana
• Build an aggregation ecosystem across Europe
• Improve metadata quality
• Represent diversity of our cultural heritage
• Local institutions are important – including Public
Libraries!
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Europeana Local, LoCloud

9. Licensing Framework

10. The Europeana Awareness Public
Libraries Network
• Europeana is recruiting
leading public libraries
across Europe to join
the Europeana Public
Libraries Network
• 76 public libraries from
31 countries are already
members
• we would like to invite
other public libraries to
join us

11. Aim of the Europeana Awareness PL
Network
• strengthen Europeana’s engagement
with public libraries all over Europe,
by developing productive
partnerships which:
– support public libraries in the digital era
– enable users to interact with the vast
quantity of high quality, digital content
available through Europeana as part of
their own services;
– increase awareness of the Europeana
initiative, among public library users and
professionals

12. Benefits
• What’s in it for me?
• What’s in it for my
library?

13. Benefits of joining the PL Network
• networking opportunities and easier
cooperation with leading public libraries
across Europe
• access to Europeana’s technical expertise and
that of the wider Europeana network
– an open forum for experts across Europe: content
providers, aggregators, technical, legal and
strategic knowledge from the cultural heritage
sector and creative industries

14. Activities
• Member libraries invited to pilot online tools, enabling users
to access, use or contribute to Europeana
– Widgets
– APIs
– Digital story telling and content collection platform
• Member libraries in Greece (and elsewhere) will take part in
the Europeana thematic campaigns such as 1914-1918 –
helping collect User Generated Content
– Memory Hubs

15. Together we
can reach our
goal!

16. Contact
Rob Davies
MDR Partners
rob.davies@mdrpartners.com