Europeana Space: spaces of possibility for the re-use of digital cultural

content

Marco Rendina, LUCE Fred Truyen, KU Leuven

Europeana Space

Europeana Space – unlocking Europe’s rich digital cultural heritage

• The project: 29 partners; 13 countries: SMES, cultural bodies, memory institutions, broadcasters, national cultural agencies, centres of excellence in multidisciplinary research including Universities

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Scope and project objectives

• To increase and enhance the use and re-use of digital cultural content by creative industries, with a special focus on the use of Europeana, by delivering a range of resources and instruments to support their engagement.

• To create new opportunities for employment and economic growth in the creative industries; jobs, money, growth.

• The work revolves around 6 pilots that focus on different areas of the creative and cultural industries: museums, dance, games, open and hybrid publishing, photography, interactive TV.

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Project workflow

• New prototype applications arising from the pilots

• Open access and IPR issues

• User testing, refining

• Hackathons – encouraging innovation

• Business Development workshops

• Incubation – take to market.

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Six Pilots

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E-SPACE TV pilot

Six Pilots

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4 demonstrators

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Closer to Van Eyck

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Espace WITH environment, allowing for users to log in and work with private and open content in a protected environment, then share!

Europeana Space: a virtuous circle

Digital cultural content

Access, unlock, reuse, IPR

Creative tools/prototypes

Innovate: incubate: testing

marketability

Private-Public Partnerships:

economic rewards: new

cultural content

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Europeana Space Photography Pilot: Mixing Photographic heritage with the smartphone world

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Open as well as copyright protected content is provided by Photoconsortium.net, who’s members participated in EuropeanaPhotography, delivering >450.000 early photography images to Europeana

Photography Pilot

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Apps for interactivity: Blinkster, Stackathon

There are 3 layers in the pilot: • simple apps to learn to use

the open collections; • A storytelling application to

write your own stories on the WITH platform, using an Omeka interface;

• Augmented reality applications using imaging technologies

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Storytelling website: tell you own stories with photographic heritage!

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Augmented reality to merge old and new

A demonstrator of a tourism app is developed, allowing city quests that overlay old and new images. API’s will be available at the Hackathon.

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Conferences: 10-11 December 2015, Tallinn (Estonia) March 2016, Berlin (Germany) Workshops: 9 October 2015, Pisa (Italy) 22 January 2016, Athens (Greece) Photo Hackathon: 25-27 February 2016, Leuven-Heverlee (Belgium) Hackathons and Business modelling workshops: throughout 2015-2016

http://www.europeana-space.eu

Europeana Space next events

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