Slides used for the 2013 edition of the Access to Digital Archives Summer School at the University of Macerata. The workshop aimed to provide participants with tools for innovation, in particular business modeling.
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integrated flickr into it’s regular activities.
It published recently it gets 5000 visits on
Flickr daily.
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60. Background
Europeana was conceived in 2005 by a letter from 6 heads of State, led by the French
President Jaques Chirac, to the President of the European Commission, Mr. Barroso.
Jacques Chirac
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Gerhard Schroeder
Silvio Berlusconi
José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Ferenc Gyurcsany
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61. Vision
We believe that openly accessible digital cultural
heritage, fostering the exchange of ideas and
knowledge, leads to a better mutual understanding of
our cultural diversity and contributes to a thriving
knowledge economy for Europe
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62. Mission
Europeana is a cultural heritage sector catalyst for
change. Together the network of Libraries, Museums,
Archives, Audio Visual Collections and Creative
Industries we work to create new ways for people to
engage with their cultural history for work, learning
or pleasure.
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Usage growth
There is a direct link between the amount of objects in the repository and the amount
of visits to the site. Large contributors such as France and Germany receive the largest
proportion of the visits to the sites (portal, mobile, apps).
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Content growth
This in turn has led to a spectacular growth in objects: currently over 27 million objects
in 32 languages with all 28 member states represented.
*Temporary loss of 1.8 million due to transition to CC0
*
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Network growth
This was realised primarily by resolving co-ordination failure: without the co-ordinating
efforts of Europeana the most likely scenario would have been fragmentation of
databases and data standards, leading to high development costs and loss of synergy.
A strong and representative network is key to this success.
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72. Stuff we are good at:
Network
Aggregation infrastructure
Data Model (EDM)
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73. Stuff we are not so good at:
Generating usage on our portal
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74. Phase 2:
Distributed access Model
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Read: Verwayen, Kaufman, Arnoldus ‘The Problem of the yellow
Milkmaid’
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76. Costs Benefits
Portal
Exhibitions
API
cost/benefit
Distributed
point of
access for
metadata
Distributed access model
Institutions
Creative
Industries
APIs
Online
5 million Euro/year Wide distribution through
implementations
Benefits
Channel
Relation ClientsValue
proposition
Activities
Aggregation
Marketing
B2B
40 FTE
Resources
Partners
Cultural
Institutions
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API growth
The effect of the change in license was felt immediately: currently over 770
organisations (commercial and non-commercial have requested an API key, 66% of
them are already implementing them in a variety of services.
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83. This has enabled us to make our culture available on a wide variety of services,
resulting in increased visibility of cultural institutions and their holdings across Europe.
For example, Europeana is now the 3rd biggest traffic driver for the Rijksmuseum.
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94. Aggregation: ‘If Europeana can help us do the things that we do, and do it better,
faster and cheaper- that would be enormously valuable’ Lucie Burgess, British
Library
Cloud
services
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97. Engagement: ‘Europeana should foster bottom- up projects and empower
communities running projects like 1914-1918 to make them more
sustainable’ (Johan Oomen, Beeld en Geluid).
Strategic
partnership
Wikipedia/GCI
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100. Costs Benefits
Portal
Exhibitions
API
cost/benefit
Distributed
point of
access for
metadata
Distributed access model
Institutions
Creative
Industries
APIs
Online
5 million Euro/year Wide distribution through
implementations
Benefits
Channel
Relation ClientsValue
proposition
Activities
Aggregation
Marketing
B2B
40 FTE
Resources
Partners
Cultural
Institutions
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