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Europeana, making it work for the creative
industries
Yvo Volman European Commission
Enjeux de l’économie de la connaissance Paris, 9-3-2012
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Context
• Digital Agenda for Europe: Using ICT for growth and the economy and improving quality of life
• Digitisation and development of Europeana key action in the Digital Agenda
• Europeana launched in 2008
• Strong support from Ministers of Culture and the European Parliament
• Letter of 6 Heads of State and Government in 2005
Every European Digital
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Europeana today
• More than 20 million objects from more than 2,000 institutions
• Solid organisational basis and network
• Biggest collaborative cultural endeavour at European level
• Relevance for citizens and for the economy
• Example for the Digital Public Library of America
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Europeana and the creative industries
• Link to content brought in by commercial
providers available against payment
• Using the digitised material for new information
products and services
• Education, tourism, design…
• Improving language technologies, search, data-mining
etc
• Use conditions decided by the content holders
• Innovation based on the use of metadata (e.g.
apps)
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Hackathons 2011
• 5 cities across Europe
• Shows the potential of the Europeana metadata
• Audience award: Timebook
• Europeana data exchange agreement
• In force on 1 July 2012
• Much more open than the earlier DEA
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Apps for Educational use
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Partner websites with some commercial
use
Making full use of the Europeana API
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Funding possibilities
• CIP-IST-PSP programme
• Workprogramme 2012: line on ‘experimenting with the use of cultural material for creativity’
• Experimentation, creative applications and services that make the best use of Europeana cultural resources
• Collaborative projects
• Call for proposals closes on 15 May 2012
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm
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‘Comite des Sages’ on digitisation
“We can reasonably expect that the arrival of millions of new digitised cultural works online wil spur a wave of innovation and new business models for companies specialised in various stages of the digitisation chain, as well as in creative content”