Europeana and User Generated ContentIntroduction and overview

ASSETS and Europeana Connect UGC4Glam Workshop, May 16-17

David Haskiya, Product Developer&Project Coordinator

become THE trusted source for cultural heritage

AGGREGATE

Expand the networkSource content

Improve data quality

FACILITATESupport cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation & advocay

Make heritage available wherever they are whenever they want it

DISTRIBUTE

Upgrade portalDevelop partnerships

Put content in user workflow

cultivate new way for users to participate in their cultural heritage

ENGAGE

What do we mean by UGC?

Participation, Co-ownership, Sharing, Conversation, Dialogue, Co-creation, Re-use, Exploring, Connecting, Contextualisation, Questioning, Relationships…

A little bit more concretely:

ContentAnnotations

TranslationsCuration

Conversation

User Created Content

• From institutional partners through regular harvesting

• Great War Archive, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Culture Schock

• From our own “The First World War in Everyday Documents”-project

• Aubery will present this project in detail

User created annotations

• Semantic tagging in the portal

• Building on the YUMA toolsuite

• Comments in the exhibitions

• Building on an Omeka add-on

Crowdsourced translations

• Of the portal user interface and systems messages

• Of the portal editorial texts

User Created Curation

• Embed item function

• For integration on personal blogs

• User created galleries

• For selecting, annotating and embedding multiple Europeana items

Conversation

• Blog

• Facebook

• Twitter

The artists:• Slide 8: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen• Slide 7: André Louis Armand Rassenfosse• Slide 9: Andrew Penfield• Slide 1: Jules Cheret• Slide 11: Kolo Moser• Slide 12: George Henri Meunier• Slides 6, 10: Unknown artists