Introduction to the Europeana workshop on Strategies for user generated content and crowdsourcing in museums and cultural heritage at Digital Heritage 2013 in Marseille.

1. Strategies for user generated
content and crowdsourcing in
museums and cultural heritage
Workshop DH2013, Marseille

2. What is
Europeana?

3. Europeana’s vision and mission
 Europeana is a catalyst for change in the world of
cultural heritage.
 Our mission: The Europeana Foundation and its Network
create new ways for people to engage with their cultural
history, whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure.
 Our vision: We believe in making cultural heritage openly
accessible in a digital way, to promote the exchange of ideas
and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural
diversity better and contributes to a thriving knowledge
economy.

4. Europe’s cultural heritage portal
 29m records from 2,200
European galleries,
museums, archives and
libraries
 Books, newspapers,
journals, letters, diaries,
archival papers
 Paintings, maps,
drawings, photographs
 Music, spoken word,
radio broadcasts
 Film, newsreels,
television
 Curated exhibitions
 31 languages

5. Europeana Structure
 Executive committee
• Currently 8 members
 Board of participants
• 20 organisations plus
6 elected Network Officers
 Europeana Network
• 700+ members elect
the 6 Network Officers
 Europeana Office
• 40+ members of staff based in
The Hague and the UK
 Over a thousand people working on Europeana-related
projects, activities and Task Forces across Europe

6. The Europeana Taskforce on User
Generated Content

7. Goals of the Taskforce
1. Identification and benchmarking of services and bestpractices as building blocks for the creation of a Europeana
UGC ecosystem
2. To be a point of contact for all projects that want to apply
UGC approaches within the Europeana network and to
encourage cross-fertilization of ideas between projects and
identify duplication of effort
3. To make policy recommendations for the Europeana Network
regarding the role UGC can play in the context of Europeana.

8. Evaluation of UGC in the Europeana
network: Strategy
• Phase 1: Identifiying actors within and beyond the network
• Short questionaire (5-6 questions max)
• Who is using UGC, why, how and with how much success?
• Phase 2: The trials and tribulations of UGC
• Longer and detailed interviews with UGC actors identified in
Phase 1
• Phase 3: Understanding the role of UGC in Europeana

9. Todays question
• Which tools/services/information could
Europeana provide that would enable
network members to make the most out of
UGC?

10. Agenda

11. Agenda
Time
Title
10:00
Introduction
10:10
Marion Dupeyrat
Interacting with audiences: overview of participatory
practices implemented by memory institutions
10:30
James Brusuelas
Ancient Lives
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20
Erwin Verbruggen
Waisda? Making videos findable with Crowdsourced
annotations
11:40
Julia Fallon
Legal aspects of UGC

12. Agenda
Time
Title
12:00
Christine Sauter
Results of the Europeana taskforce
12:20
Ad Pollé
Europeana 1914-18
12:40
Ad Pollé
Europeana 1989
13:00 –
14:00
Lunchbreak
14:00
Roei Amit
"Engage the exhibitions audience with the use of
photography", Case studies around several events
(Dynamo, Grand Atelier du midi and Braque exhibitions)
14:20
Stuart Dunn
An emerging field(?): defining the fundamentals of
humanities crowdsourcing
14:40
Conclusion

13. Strategies for user generated
content and crowdsourcing in
museums and cultural heritage
Workshop DH2013, Marseille