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Europeana – access to millions of
digitized items from European museums,
libraries, archives and multi-media
collections - status, development and
relation to educational resources
Leif Andresen - Danish Agency for Libraries and Media
Expert – Europeana v.1.0
EdReNe – Educational Repositories Network
3rd Strategic Seminar – 3 June 2009
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Content
• The presenter
• Europeana – Political endorsement, Stakeholder
involvement and User engagement
• Europeana - Behind the screen
• Europeana - relation to educational resources
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Leif Andresen
• Senior Adviser, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media
• Expert in EDLnet (2007–2009): WP2 Technical & Semantic
Interoperability. Work Group Standards & Interoperability of Standards
• Expert in Europeana v.1.0 (2009–2011): WP3 Further Specification of
Functionality and Interoperability aspects of Europeana. Work Group
Object model and Metadata
• Standards: ISO TC46, Dublin Core, RUMLO (2004)
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Europeana: the vision
‘A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European cultural heritage.’European Parliament, 27 September 2007
‘A unique resource for Europe's distributed cultural heritage… ensuring a common access to Europe's libraries, archives and museums.’
Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Information Society Directorate, European Commission
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Political endorsement
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The Commission’s interest in digital information
• Internet: new ways to deal with information• Easy to push information out and to pull information seekers in
• Interactive: opportunities for dialogue
• New devices• Information on the move
• The rise of the e-book
• Changing role/methods of cultural institutions
• Need to remain relevant
• Puts the content where the people are
New opportunities to engage users
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Growing political engagement
• European Commission funding projects that Since the 1990s
promote interoperability of European information
• Google Print’s library partnerships announced December 2004
• Letter from 6 Heads of State to the President of the April 2005
European Commission
• Commission launches i2010, a 5 year digital-led June 2005
strategy for growth and jobs
• The Commission’s Directorate for Information Society September 2005
and Media launches Digital Libraries Initiative
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Digital Libraries Initiative
• Digitisation• Avoid duplication / create synergies• Strategic and financial planning• Public-private partnerships• Digitisation facilities
• Digital preservation
• Strategies and Standards• Digitised from analogue • Born digital: legal deposit; web harvesting
• Online accessibility• Intellectual property rights
• Towards a 20th century black hole?• Orphan and out of print works• Barriers to use of public domain material
• Integrated access• Building a common access point: Europeana• Standards for file formats and metadata
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Gaining political momentum
• Commission recommendation to Member States August 2006 to create a European digital library
• Endorsement by the Council of Culture Ministers November 2006representing all the Member States
• Outcome:
• European digital library (EDL) Thematic Network July 2007 to
• 18-month project March 2009
• Funded by the digital libraries initiative under
the eContentplus call
• To create a prototype web portal: Europeana
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The Commission’s objectives for Europeana
• To create a multilingual public domain access point to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage
• To use digitised cultural and scientific heritage resources as input for a wide range of information products and services
• To play a key role in the future growth of sectors such as learning and tourism
• To inspire new creative enterprise and innovation
• To promote understanding of our common European background and the sense of a European identity
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Achieving political endorsement
• European Parliament votes to support a multilingual September 2007 access point to Europe’s common heritage
• Commission issues Communication detailing each August 2008 Members’ progress on the digital libraries initiative
• Europeana strategy briefing for policy advisors and October 2008 digital strategists in all Ministries of Culture
• Council of Culture Ministers meeting publishes 20 November 2008 Conclusions on the European digital library which express strong political support
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Council conclusions, 20 November 2008
‘ Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material are essential to highlight cultural heritage, to inspire the creation of new content and to encourage new online services to emerge. They help to democratise access to culture and knowledge and to develop the information society and the knowledge-based economy.’
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Stakeholder involvement
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Top-level stakeholder buy-in
• EDL Foundation: Board of participants from the professional heritage 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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EDLnet - Involving partners
• Bringing together a operational network of 100+ partners
• Promoting technology transfer, standards and practices across the heritage domains and between Member States
• Kick-off conference in September 07
• Technical experts contributing to Work Packages
• Conference February ‘08: feedback on demo version
• Conference June ‘08: feedback on initial prototype
• Core group responding to micro releases
• Top stakeholders – launch invitation and vision briefing
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The communications multiplier
• The EDL Foundation Board members communicate to their communities, focusing on the messages that are relevant to them
• The partners communicate in their own language with• colleagues• national professional networks • national media: translated press releases; articles• visitors and end-users: links on websites; newsletters
• Enabling Europeana’s core team of 6 - including 1 communications professional - to maximise their impact
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User engagement
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Europeana: the prototype, 20 November 2008
• Proof of concept web portal
• Cultural and scientific heritage material from every European country
• Direct access to 4.2 million digital items
• 1,000+ contributing organisations
• Archives, museums, galleries, libraries, sound, film and TV collections
• Through a multilingual interface in 25 languages
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Europeana: the result
• Press launch 19 November 2008: live demo in Berlaymont• Presidential launch 20 November 2008
• Average of 10 million hits per hour, peaking at 13 million• Site froze: 10 minutes to execute a search
• Commission advised us to take the site down• Reverted to the project development site
• 80,000 people registered for the eNewsletter• Portal relaunched in test mode in December
• 620 news articles in Europe in November/December• 3,360 news items listed in Google global news
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Europeana - Behind the screen
•Technical requirements
•Sources
•Projects
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Technical requirements
• Digitised object available on a website at the object level through a permanent direct link• To the object and/or the object in context• To a thumbnail or a sample
• Metadata following the metadata elements set defined by Europeana for the general interface• Qualified Dublin Core (at the moment only simple DublinCore
Indexed and displayed)http://dev.europeana.eu/public_documents/Specification_for_metadata_elements_in_the_Europeana_prototype.pdf
• Preferably exposed for harvesting on an OAI PMH server
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EDL Foundation & Europeana want Aggregation
EDLFoundation
National Digital Library
ACE
Film Archive X
EURBICA National Archive 1
MICHAELCENL
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
IASA
Sound Archive 1
Sound Archive 2
ICOM Europe
Museum 1Museum 2
ACE
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Projects helping the aggregation to date
NL 1 NL 2 NL 3
EDL
National Digital Library
ACE
Film Archive X
Eurbica National Archive 1
MICHAELCENL
Museum X
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 n
IASA
Sound Archive 1
Sound Archive n
ICOM Europe
Museum 1
Museum 2
The European Library
VideoActive
ATHENA
APE net
EFG
Culture.fr, CulturaItalia
BAM, CIMEC etc……
Europeana Local
Trebleclef
PrestoPrime
IMPACT
STERNA
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Basic Projects
• EDLnet• Thematic network European Digital Library Thematic Partner
Network. Prepare the prototype and develop specifications for the future operational service. Specifications delivered.
• Europeana v1.0• Is the successor network to EDLNet. Turns current prototype into
an operational service. It creates automated work flows and processes for the ingestion of content and management of a full scale business operation. End user marketing ensures take up and sustainability, together with longer term financing solutions. Start February 09 ends July 11
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Basic Technical Project
• EuropeanaConnect• Is a set of technical work packages delivering components essential
for the operational Europeana.eu as a truly interoperable, multilingual and user oriented service. portal. Includes:
– Semantic resource discovery
– A unique repository of language resources
– OAI Management Infrastructure
– Metadata registry for interoperability
– Service registry for integration of external services
– Resolution discovery service for unique resource identification
– Multimedia annotation, GIS and eBooks on demand
– Accessibility for Mobile Devices
– Increased audio content
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Current projects
• Europeana Local www.EuropeanaLocal.eu• Is an aggregator (no portal). Helps local and regional museums, archives, audio visual
collections and libraries to bring their content to Europeana.eu.
• EFG www.EuropeanFilmGateway.eu• Creates European Film Gateway (a portal) and makes more film accessible to Europeana.
• Athena www.AthenaEurope.org• Is an aggregator (no portal). Helps museums bring their content to Europeana.eu.
• APEnet• Creates European Archives Portal and makes more archives accessible to Europeana.
• PrestoPrime• Is a network of excellence for the preservation of audio visual archives and will deliver
content to Europeana.
• STERNA• Semantic, web based thematic European reference network application building a
distributed digital library focussing on natural science, natural history, and biodiversity material.
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Forthcoming Projects
• BHL Europe• Improves the interoperability of Europe´s biodiversity heritage libraries by introducing
common standards and creates a portal to facilitate the search for taxa specific biodiversity information. It will give access to relevant content through Europeana.
• EU Screen • A portal. Works with standardisation in the audio visual sector and provide solutions to
achieve interoperability in the sector. It will develop long term solutions to rights issues.
• Europeana Travel • Overall objective to digitise content on the theme of travel and tourism for Europeana from
Europe´s national and research libraries.
• MIMO Musical Instrument Museums Online• Digitises content and creates a common access portal for musical instruments. MIMO also
gives access to its content through Europeana.
• JUDEICA Jewish Urban Digital European Integrated Cultural Archive
• Identifies content in European Institutions demonstrating the jewish contribution to the cities of Europe. Content will be digitised & accessible through Europeana. Begins 2009.
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The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009
NL 1 NL 2 NL 3
EDL
National Digital Library
ACE
Film Archive X
Eurbica National Archive 1
MICHAELCENL
Museum X
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 n
IASA
Sound Archive 1
Sound Archive n
ICOM Europe
Museum 1
Museum 2
The European Library
VideoActive
ATHENA
APEnet
EFGACE
Culture.fr
CulturaItalia
BAM
CIMEC etc……
EuropeanaLocal
Trebleclef
PrestoPrime
IMPACT
BHLMIMO
EuropeanaConnect
Judeica
EuropeanaTravel
EUScreen
STERNA
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Relation to educational resources
• Europeana started with the libraries• Now focus is involvement of museums, libraries, archives
and multi-media collections • But culture and cultural heritage is much more than
museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections • Many other sectors have digital collections• An important sector is the educational sector
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Educational Repositories as suppliers
• Educational Repositories contains and will in the future contain a lot of digital text, images, and movies etc.,
• This digital text, images, and movies etc also are cultural heritage.
• So the educational sector is an important source for digital content, which ought to be accessible for all European citizens.
• Educational Repositories must act as suppliers of metadata to Europeana.
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The educational sector as user
• The educational sector is an important user of cultural heritage – so this sector represents key users of Europeana. You can already now search and use.
• Teachers, pupils and students are candidates to use Europeana not only typing in single words, but also using more sophistically features such as creating own collections.
• Educational Repositories can use Europeana during machine-to-machine interfaces – and set up specific interfaces to (part of) Europeana.
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What to do?
• Your community (EdReNe) is obvious candidate to play a more active role in relation to Europeana to ensure the development of user interfaces and machine interfaces according to the needs of teachers, pupils and students. EdReNe is also an obvious candidate for connecting Educational Repositories as suppliers to Europeana.
• Some representatives from theeducational sector (EdReNe?) ought to join Europeana v.1.0 as partners.
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Thank you
Questions / comments?
Contact:
Leif Andresen