Europeana Network Association Members Council Meeting, The Hague by George Homs
1. Supporting Europeana GLAM Time Machine FET Flagship
Europeana Impact – A working group proposal
George Homs
Europeana Members Council – The Hague, February 21-22, 2017
2. Consortium proposal to EU
Future & Emerging Technologies
Horizon 2020 Working Programme
FET Flagships
“Science-driven, large-scale, multidisciplinary research
initiatives oriented towards a unifying goal, aiming at
transformational impacts with substantial benefits for
European competitiveness and for society”
Typical duration: 10 years
Funding: up to € 1 billion
What is it about?
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
Time
Machine
FET
Flagship
3. Rationale behind Time Machine
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
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Today
Future
Past
21st century
20th century
Industrial
Revolution
Enlightenment
Renaissance
Middle Ages
Antiquity
Digital information
DigitizationDigitization
SimulationSimulation
4. Driven by the Digital Humanities
Heritage = data
Big Data from the past
4D digitisation : Time
Mapping European history
Leveraging the Venice Time Machine
80 kilometres of archives about Venice
Project launched in 2012
Headed by EPFL and the University Ca’Foscari
Key take-aways
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
5. Consortium
80+ partners in 23 countries (to date)
European and national programs
Institutional partners (archives, libraries, DH centres…)
Timeline
Autumn 2017 : Call for proposals
Late 2017 : pre-selection + call/funding for detailed proposals
Autumn 2018 : Final selection
Status
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
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6. Increased legitimacy for digitisation
It is more than access and presentation
Connecting collections
Pooling “big data of the past”
Interdisciplinarity
Expand from “culture” to humanities as a whole
Outreach
Encouraging creative re-use of heritage in society
What’s in it for us?
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
7. What can we do – and why?
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
Define
IMPACT
Identify
CHANNE
LS
Support
COALITI
ON
What is it?
Can we quantify?
Who are stakeholders?
What do they need?
How can we facilitate?
Encourage cooperation?
8. Permanent “Impact” Working Group
Impact – Channels - Coalition
Serving GLAMs, Europeana, Time Machine – in one go
Meets the Europeana business plan goals
Outcomes
Conceptual presentation of Impact
Build-out of inventory of practical use cases
Facilitate dialogue and partnering through ENA
Confirm role of ENA as a representative body
Proposition
Europeana Impact & Time Machine FET Flagship
Driving the
digitised
heritage
ecosystem