The Europeana Annual Event 2019 5-6 March 2019

1. The Europeana Annual
Event 2019
Gina van der Linden, Victor-Jan Vos & Nicholas
Jarrett | MC MEETING, 6 MARCH 2019

2. • Create more awareness for Europeana and its network
• Become an international well-known event alongside conferences
such as ICOM, IFLA, Liber & MuseumNext
• Save people’s time
• Open up, so the event should engage not only representatives of
the Europeana Network but also others who are interested to
inspire each other and transfer knowledge.
Aims
Title here
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Europeana Annual Event
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3. Denmark, CC0
1877, Statens Museum for Kunst
på fodtour
Adolph Kittendorff
Programme
suggestions

4. Highlight the ENA communities
● Community chairs to act as
Programme Committee
Invite all MC members to:
● Recommend speakers
● Promote the event
● Consider organising TF meetings on
the first day
● Invite their network to attend the
event
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5. Context of the event:
Netherlands, Public Domain
c. 1800 - c. 1810, Rijksmuseum
Katsushika Hokusai
Kagamitogi

6. • Plenary sessions
• Parallel sessions for the Europeana Network
Communities & Community TF meetings
• Pre-meetings for project meetings such as Common
Culture
• External partner pre-meeting workshops run by IIIF, Wiki
and others.
The event will host:
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7. Netherlands, Public Domain
1660 - 1625, Rijksmuseum
Anonymous
Arrival of a Portuguese ship
Research

8. Research findings
• A larger event with an appealing line-up is a great awareness tool for Europeana
• Location is important
• The countries with the highest representation in our network are Netherlands, Spain, UK,
Italy, Germany, Greece and Romania (in size order, all over 100 members)
• Based on the 2018 AGM the most engaged of these communities are Romania and Greece
(both had over 10% of Network members attend). Spain were the least engaged with 0
attendees.
• Our biggest sectors within the network are Cultural Heritage professionals (1,003),
Educators (513) and Researchers (219)
• ‘Competitor’ events are more expensive than Europeana normally charges
• The event venue is used as a marketing tool for some
• Some seem to have linked-up with the local tourist board/venue to use their promotional
videos as event promotion
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9. Finland, CC0
National Digital Library
The masquerade ball
Pesne, Antoine
Recommendations

10. Event recommendations
1. Organise the event early November
2. Promote outside the network as well as within the network
3. If possible find a venue for free
4. Ensure we have a line-up that is diverse and fairly represents the
backgrounds/interests of the audiences in our network, but is also interesting to
those we most want to target outside the network
5. Have a number of different ticket offers to appeal to different audiences
6. Agree on a price (EB 175 / 225 / 325) for the conference and charge €100 more
to non-network members.
7. We will investigate reimbursement options
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11. Next steps
1. Set up Programme Committee (Community Chairs)
1. Find a venue with an auditorium that fits at least 300 participants
1. Send out a “Save the date” ASAP
1. Invite speakers
1. Awards? They are a great exposure for CHIs and those working in the sector
1. Investigate Sponsorship possibilities
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12. Netherlands, Public Domain
1644, Rijksmuseum
Adriaen van Utrecht
Banquet Still Life
Last but not least
A new name

13. Event name - Any ideas?
EuropeanaConference
EuropeanaInspire
EuropeanaMeets
EuropenaNext
Europeana 2019
Woman Reading a Letter | Johannes Vermeer
1663, Rijksmuseum
Netherlands, Public Domain
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14. THANK YOU!