Presentation given at the 6 information Policy Forum in Tallinn, Estonia.

1. The European Information Landscape
Tallinn september 2010

2. Background

3. ‘Digitisation and online accessibility are essential ways to
highlight cultural and scientific heritage, to inspire the
creation of new content and to encourage new online
services to emerge.
-European Council of Ministers, 20 November 2008-

4. March 2009
Discover Participate
Share
Europeana: a single point of access where our European heritage is openly
available for discovery, to participate in and share

5. September 2010
40 employees
12 million objects
28 data providers 1500 institutions
180 partners

6. Discover/share/
participate

7. Tallinn?
Say a young historian in Madrid called Jukka is
interested in primary sources on cities in Estonia...

8. He would go to the Europeana homepage....
Through Google ;-)

9. Select Spanish as his language of choice...

10. And do a search on Tallinn.

11. In this case he will see 52 results...

12. Of which he chooses a photograph of the Baltic Station held in the National
Library of Estonia...

13. He is intrigued by this beautiful picture from 1929.

14. Discovery enabled by:

15. National
Library of
Estonia
Discovery enabled by:

16. National
Library of
Estonia
The
European
Library
Discovery enabled by:

17. National
Library of
Estonia
The
European
Library
Discovery enabled by:

18. National
Library of
Estonia
The
European
Library
Discovery enabled by:

19. National
Library of
Estonia
The
European
Library
Discovery enabled by:

20. National
Library of
Estonia
The
European
Library
Discovery enabled by:

21. Estonia?
Let’s try Estonia...

23. Almost 40.000 results to choose from...

24. He selects a painting of ‘Revel’

25. Held in the National Library in Poland.

26. He continues with a Lithography of Revel

27. held in the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum in Leipzig.

28. He visits France...

29. Sweden...

30. Culture.fr Eesti National
Rahvusraamatukogu Library of
Estonia
Musee des
civilisations
d’Europe
The
European
Library
On his quest to find out about Estonia he embarked on a
tour of Europeana Heritage...

31. Culture.fr Eesti National
Rahvusraamatukogu Library of
Estonia
Musee des
civilisations
d’Europe
The
European
Library
On his quest to find out about Estonia he embarked on a
tour of Europeana Heritage...

32. Culture.fr Eesti National
Rahvusraamatukogu Library of
Estonia
Musee des
civilisations
d’Europe
The
European
Library
On his quest to find out about Estonia he embarked on a
tour of Europeana Heritage...

33. Culture.fr Eesti National
Rahvusraamatukogu Library of
Estonia
Musee des
civilisations
d’Europe
The
European
Library
On his quest to find out about Estonia he embarked on a
tour of Europeana Heritage...

34. Culture.fr Eesti National
Rahvusraamatukogu Library of
Estonia
Musee des
civilisations
d’Europe
The
European
Library
On his quest to find out about Estonia he embarked on a
tour of Europeana Heritage...

35. Culture.fr Eesti National
Rahvusraamatukogu Library of
Estonia
Musee des
civilisations
d’Europe
The
European
Library
On his quest to find out about Estonia he embarked on a
tour of Europeana Heritage...

36. Culture.fr Eesti National
Rahvusraamatukogu Library of
Estonia
Musee des
civilisations
d’Europe
The
European
Library
On his quest to find out about Estonia he embarked on a
tour of Europeana Heritage...

37. And was able to build a picture of Estonia based on
artifacts in institutions scattered all over Europe.

38. But is that enough?

40. Wikipedia: 13 million articles
Technorati: 93.9 million Blogs
HABBO: 135 million members
Avaaz: 11 million actions
Youtube: 363 million users
Skype: 405 million users
Facebook: 236 million members

41. Back to the drawing board...

42. Let’s make the homepage more interactive

43. Add more context,
like a virtual exhibition

44. And new ways to represent the results...

45. Such as results on a map

46. Results on a timeline

47. More context...

48. The ability to share opinions

49. Use the material in your own workflow

50. Find the material right on the websites you trusts

51. The European
Information Landscape

52. Aggregators Map overlay
Legend:
National Cross domain
aggregators
National Vertical
aggregators

54. Estonian
Cultural
Heritage
Portal
National National National
Library Museum Archive

55. Estonian
Cultural
Heritage
Portal
National National National
Library Museum Archive

57. National
Facebook Library
CARARE
Google Estonian
Cultural
Heritage
Portal
The European
LIbrary

58. If you want to be on the web, you have be organized like
the web

59. Thank you
Harry Verwayen
Director Business Development
Europeana
Mail: harry.verwayen@kb.nl
Skype: hverwayen