Presentation of the Europeana DSI at the LT-Accelerate conference, Dec 4-5 2-14, Brussels http://www.lt-accelerate.eu/

1. Europeana DSI
Antoine Isaac
LT-Accelerate Conference 2014
Brussels, December 5

2. Europe’s platform to access cultural heritage
Currently
36M objects

3. Built on descriptive metadata
from a broad, heterogeneous network
2,300 galleries, museums, archives and libraries
The Culture.fr
European
Library
Audiovisual
collections
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
Musées
Lausannois
APEX
European Film
Gateway Europeana Fashion

4. More than this

5. We believe
Culture transforms lives

6. We are a community of > 2500
members who contribute data,
technology, knowledge and
business opportunities
A network of cultural innovators

8. Multi-sided platform

13. Facilitating re-use on the legal side
Content (digital objects on the site of the provider)
Public Domain, Creative
Commons Licenses, Rights
reserved, Orphan work….
Metadata (descriptive object information)
CC

14. Some ideas of the work
ahead

15. Enumerate
report

19. Language technology
challenges

20. Trans-European services come with
Europe-scale challenges
top 16
Items from 36 countries
Metadata in 33 languages
Portal in 31 languages

21. Availability of language technology for re-use
Tools to serve end users and data re-users

22. Thank you!
Antoine Isaac
antoine.isaac@europeana.eu
@EuropeanaEU
Some images by Elco van Staveren, Denkschets