europeana.eu: cultural collaboration across borders and domains jon purday senior communications...

Europeana.eu: cultural collaboration

across borders and domains

Jon PurdaySenior Communications Advisor, Europeana

The 12th Annual International Conference «EVA 2009 Moscow»

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What is Europeana.eu ?

• Prototype portal launched in November 2008 • Public access point for European cultural and scientific heritage

• Links users to content digitised by libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual collections

• Content from all 27 European Union Member States• Multilingual interface in 26 languages• Material from over 1,000 content providers

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What’s in the Europeana prototype ?

• Current contents: 4.5 million items• 3,500,000 images: paintings, drawings, postcards, posters, photos, pictures of museum objects

• 935,000 texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts, letters

• 115,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts, public information films

• 13,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings

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Stakeholder collaboration at the top level

• EDL Foundation’s Board of Participants from the cutural heritage and research associations:• ACE: Association Cinémathèques Européennes

• CENL: Conference of European National Librarians

• CERL: Consortium of European Research Libraries

• EMF: European Museum Forum

• EURBICA: European Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives

• FIAT: International Federation of Television Archives

• IASA: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

• ICOM Europe: International Council of Museums, Europe

• LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche

• MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

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Partner collaboration at the site-building level

The Europeana partner network• 150+ partners from museums, libraries, archives,

audiovisual collections, software developers, university research

• Representatives from every Member State

• Promotes technology and knowledge transfer across the sectors and between Member States

• Shares common standards and best practice

• Technical experts lead work groups developing use cases, data models, components etc.

• Network translates all parts of the interface into 26 languages

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CENL

National Digital Library

ACE

Museum X

Eurbica National Archive 1

MICHAEL

National Library 1 NL 2 NL 3

Archive X

National Archive 2

Film Archive 1

Film Archive 2

Film Archive 3

National Archive 3

Library X Museum A Archive A Library A

FIAT

Television Archive 1

Television Archive 2

ICOM Europe

Museum 1Museum 2

EU Screen

Aggregators promote collaboration

National aggregator

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Athena Archives Portal Europe[APEnet]

STERNA

BHLEurope

EUScreen

Video Active

EuropeanFilm

Gateway

EuropeanaLocal

EuropeanaTravel

MIMO

Judaica

Europeana Connect

Europeana v1.0

Collaboration and the growth of Europeana

Europeana.eu ArrowPrestoPrime

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Content providers to Europeana

Major new release in 2010 will give access to 10 million items from:• Athena: museum objects

• Archives Portal Europe [APEnet]: national archives

• Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL Europe]: texts and taxonomies

• European Film Gateway: film, scripts, posters, stills

• Europeana Connect: sound recordings

• Europeana Travel: exploration, tourism and cartography

• Europeana Local: regional libraries and museums

• EU Screen: TV broadcasts

• Judaica Europeana: documentation of Jewish life in Europe’s cities

• Museum of Musical Instruments Online: images and audiovisual of instruments

Information about all the projects contributing to Europeana: http://group.europeana.eu

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Thank you

jonathan.purday@bl.uk

www.europeana.eu