Access to Culture through the Digital Shift

Europeana & the Cultural Heritage

Ecosystem

Ready for Tomorrow. Vilnius, 1-2 September 2013

“Much more than an economic alliance,

Europe has to become a cultural union”

Robert Schuman on the Founding of ECC, 1951

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Funding Cultural Collaboratively

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Why is Europeana important?

Impact, Impact, Impact….

Europeana supports economic growth

Europeana connects Europe

• Europeana makes Europe’s culture available to everyone

Europeana supports economic growth:

Creative Industries in Europe are

growing fast (estimated 7% per annum)

and they need fuel.

Europeana provides that.

To date 770 businesses, entrepreneurs,

educational & cultural organisations are

re-using our data in websites, apps and

games.

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Impact 1: Europeana Supports Economic Growth

Europeana connects Europe:

open, democratised access to

culture helps all communities across

Europe to understand the past and

to appreciate cross-cultural

differences.

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Impact 2: Europeana Connects Europe

Europeana makes Europe’s culture

available for everyone:

29 million records under a Creative

Commons Zero public domain

dedication (CC0) means Europe’s

heritage becomes available for re-

use for everyone, young and old

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Impact 3: Europeana makes

Europe’s Culture available for

everyone .

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Supply/Distribution chain

Content Providers

Aggregators Distributors Users

Need a similar scalable setup on the distribution side. - Accessing communities of use or networks: Schoolnet, Wikipedia, & social networks (pinterest, tumbler, facebook, etc.) - Creating end-user driven sites: Europeana 1914-1918, 1989, Fashion, Research - Hosting a lab where developers, media artists and entrepreneurs can create new

things from old clothes - Europeana Labs

Europeana Labs

An innovative space for use by developers, media artists, entrepreneurs and creatives to access the content, data, tools & services of Europeana the Digital Service Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage. Launching early 2014 with a couple of pilots

Europeana: Serious Adventure Game –

Natural History Puzzle

Europeana Education site on WW1

Europeana Fashion

Europeana Digital Service

infrastructure

The Vision

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Museum

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Collection

Museum

Archive

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Jill.Cousins@kb.nl

Twitter: JilCos following EuropeanaEU

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