Jill Cousins, Europeana Foundation EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting, 10-12 May 2010, Berlin

1. in Europeana and the Projects
Jill Cousins, Europeana Foundation
10 May, 2010, Berlin

2. Europeana
•Rhine
•Content
•Foundation
•Product & Service Plan
•Danube
•Projects

3. Rhine Back End Changes
API
• For reuse of data by partners and for taking back enriched
data
Ingestion
• Updated Content Checker for projects
• Europeana Licensing Framework Metadata changes
• OAI PMH harvesting
• CRM system
• SIP and AIP Managers
• Repository
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4. cezanne
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5. Refine Search:
Search within results set
To be able to use ´not´
To exclude some collections
e.g. Saxon State Library
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6. Improve Search
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7. Alternative Suggestions
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8. Use the Social tags in search
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9. Related Items
Related by: Subject (multilingual!)
Creator (authority files)
Date (missing in data)
Location (missing in data)
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10. Search tips
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12. Pre-clustering/sorting of
search and results
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14. Timeline & visual
browsing
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15. Subject
Cloud
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16. Virtual Exhibitions
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17. Demo´s e.g. Art nouveau
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18. Mobile platform access
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19. By December 2010 - User Generated Content
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20. Europeana Content

21. Europeana Content
• 7 million items are now accessible
• 4 million images: photos, paintings, drawings, postcards, posters
• 2.5 million texts: books, newspapers, manuscripts, letters
• 92,000 videos: film, documentary, TV broadcasts, public information
• 24,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings

22. Data provided by country, by September 2009
5 countries contributing more than 1 %

23. Data provided by country, March 2010
12 countries contributing more than 1%

24. Data Providers, March 2010

25. Content by Type
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26. EDL Foundation

27. Europeana Annual Report 2009
• People 7 to 32
• Content 2.5 million items to > 7 million
• Partners 98 to 180
• Aggregators 2 to 12
• Projects 1 to 15
• Matching funds 0 to 1.4 million
• Traffic 15,000 per day to 5,000
• Repeat visits from 10% to 50%
• Releases quarterly
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28. Europeana Foundation
•To update its Statutes
– to reflect the Council of Content Providers and Aggregators
– to be more in line with Dutch law on Foundation rules.
– to remove to By Laws constitution of Board etc
• Election of Council of Content Providers & Aggregators
•Meeting to be set up in May of the Officers
•And the winners are..........

29. Europeana Foundation
Council of Content Providers & Aggregators
• Nick Poole - Collections Trust, UK - Aggregators
• Francisco Barbedo, National Archives, Portugal, Archives
• Kjell Nilsson - Swedish National Library, Sweden, Libraries
• Henning Scholz, Museum of Natural History, Germany, Museums
• Ann Bergman, Federation of European Publishers, Europe,
Commercial
• Hans van der Linden, Erfgoed International, Belgium,

30. Europeana Foundation
Data Provider & Aggregator Agreements
• Being issued
• Best Practice......more to say what Europeana will do with
your data
• Programme to demonstrate some of the merits of a freer
licence for use of metadata on the web.
• Numbers and HipHop

31. Europeana´s Public Domain Charter
‣Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive,
belongs to the public and must represent the public interest.
‣The Public Domain is the material from which society derives
knowledge and fashions new cultural works.
‣Having a healthy and thriving Public Domain is essential to the
social and economic well-being of society.
‣Digitisation of Public Domain content does not create new
rights over it: works that are in the Public Domain in analogue
form continue to be in the Public Domain once they have been
digitised.

32. Operational Consequences of the Charter
• Public Domain Icon or Kitemark
• Plans to label the rights associated with a digitised
item very clearly so that they are understood
by Europeana’s users, who will be able to exclude content
from their results that requires payment or doesn't comply
with the Public Domain Charter.
• Rights labelling will become a requirement when
submitting content to Europeana by the end of this year.

33. EUROPEANA
PRODUCT AND SERVICE PLAN 2010
• Priority 1: Improve end user experience and
participation
Goal: targeted web marketing of specific content and the
use of social networks
• Priority 2: Ensure sustainability of Europeana 2011-
2015
Goal: develop business models, strategies, funding,
budgets
• Priority 3: Develop a strong collection development
program
• Goal: higher quality content and more focussed collection
• Priority 4: Develop a strong partner program
Goal: encourage Aggregation and ‘missing’ partners
• Priority 5: Produce and maintain a stable and robust
portal
• Goal: develop a stable, operational portal for the Rhine
release and deliver new services in post Rhine releases
• Priority 6: Position Europeana as innovator and
facilitator
Goal: repostiories, EuropeanaLabs, Open Source

34. Strategic Priorities 2010-2013
Open
Access, Content, Source Code, Development
Supported by:
» Policies
» Business Plan
» Projects
» Content
» End user marketing
» Technologies
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35. The key priorities for Danube are:
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• Better simple search, retrieval and results implementation
• Reaching the end user
• EDM
• Multilingualism
• Mobile

36. Projects
BHL Europeana
Digital Europe Libraries
Europeana Europeana
Stories
Regia Local
European Arrow
Judaica
Europeana v1.0 Film
Gateway
HOPE
MIMO Europeana
Europeana.eu ASSETS
CARARE version 2.0
Europeana Europeana Connect EUScreen
Travel
Athena
Archives Portal Europe
[APEnet]
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37. Europeana Organisation
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38. Thank You
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