europeana & japan digital archive initiative

Japanese Digital Archive Initiative‘A history of Europeana in 3 acts’Harry Verwayen | the University of Tokyo 28 November 2016

The Great Wave of KanagawaNational Museum of Fine Arts (Valletta, Malta)CC BY-NC-ND

1. Think Big

Presentation

Article by Soichi Tokizane

Japanese Digital Archive InitiativeCC BY-SA

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April 2005 Jacques Chirac’s tells EC his big ideaJuly 2007 EDLnet starts building EuropeanaNovember 2008 Europeana prototype (Portal) launched Summer 2010 Prototype becomes a service September 2012 Europeana metadata released as CC0May 2015 Europeana Digital Service InfrastructureJune 2016 European Union reconfirms support in Council Conclusions

10 years Europeana


Our Big Idea


Enumerate report

What did we learn?• Having a Big Idea is really important to secure political backing

• Political backing is essential for funding and for implementing policy

change

• Unless your Big Idea is defined really well, it will be open for

interpretation

• Political backing requires constant stakeholder management

2.Start Small

Girl in a White Kimono | Breitner, George 1894RIjksmuseumPublic Domain

•53,604,836 digital objects in Europeana.eu

•All 28 member states contribute, but not equally


•> 3.500 institutions participate

• Through less than 150 aggregators (National and Domain)


• Institutions feel unconnected to Europeana

• Institutions have lost connection with end users

• Roles & responsibilities have become unclear


Statistics Dashboard


Europeana Colections


Search for ‘Hokusai’


Use the ‘facets’ on the left


And find what you are looking for


Thematic collections


Music …


Fashion …


World War 1


labs.europeana.eu


http://labs.europeana.eu/

#gifitup!

Apps for Children 5-7


Investor Forum


What did we learn?

• Creating value is not the same as showing value

• We should have invested much more in making the

value more visible to our stakeholders

• ‘Starting small’ is really hard! Yet is is crucial to keep

focused

Mountain. Tuschmålning på papper| Hozan MatsumotoÖstasiatiska Museet .CC-BY

3.Act now!

Think Big, Start Small, Act Now!CC BY-SA

Data Model

Licensing Model


Publishing Framework


Japanese Digital Archive Initiative


Think Big, Start Small, Act Now!CC BY-SA

europeana & japan digital archive initiative

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