Creative Re-Use of Cultural Heritage: Europeana Creative

Lizzy Komen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Data Science for Creative Industry SeminarAmsterdam, November 13, 2015

@lizzykomenlkomen@beeldengeluid.nl

Sound and VisionEuropeanaEuropeana CreativePilots

“We enable everyone to utilize the collections to learn, experience and create.”

“As guardian of Dutch audiovisual heritage, we keep Dutch history, as documented in moving images, alive.”

Mission

1 mei 2023

Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid

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THE COLLECTION:• 70% audiovisual heritage

• > 1.00.000 hours• 2 million photos• 20.000 objects

free search channels

General public > Collection Online

Education and Research

Streaming video content for Primary, secondary and vo-Cational education

Streaming video content for higher education & research

Open streaming video content for re-use and remix

labs.beeldengeluid.nl

Europeana: Europe’s digital museum, library, archive

44 million records from 2,500 European galleries, museums, archives, libraries

images, sounds, texts, video, 3D

31 languages

Metadata under CC0

Linked Open Data Cloud

source: http://lod-cloud.net/

Europeana Creative

creative re-use of digitised content

how?

critical mass of content for re-useEuropeana Content Re-use FrameworkEuropeana Labs & technical infrastructureco-creation eventsfive Pilotsseries of challenge events with the creative industriesincubation of the most viable projects

Europeana Labs

“Europeana Labs is a playground for remixing and using your cultural and scientific heritage.”“It is both an online space and a network of real-world places for inspiration, innovation and sharing.”

Brand proposition

what is the goal?

achieve much higher rates of use of Europeana (Network) metadata and associated content

who are the users?

the developer inspired to or paid to develop based on our API and/or codethe creative industry professional or entrepreneur with a commercial motivation to remix or republish heritagethe designer-developer or multi-disciplinary teams who want to do both of the above

Example: Google Field Trip app

Example: Europeana Beacon

Content Re-use Framework

Europeana will highlight digital objects that meet re-use recommendationsadditional search tools that allow to identify content suitable for re-useEuropeana will expose direct links to full-size object via API

Content for re-use

images with min. 800pxdirect links to 300dpi imagesrights statements that allow re-use

Europeana re-use requirements (images)

Europeana Collections (Alpha)

Pilots

5 Themes – 5 Pilots – 3 (5) Challenges

Started Nov. 2013Started May 2013 StartedMay 2014

http://pro.europeana.eu/europeana-creative/pilots

Co-creation

http://issuu.com/platoniq/docs/platoniq_co-creation_eng

History Education Pilot

History Education Historiana Apps

An exemplar application of the Analysis Tool using a satirical map from the National Library in France. The Analysis tool can be used for free by educators to create their own online learning activities at http://apps.historiana.eu. For a video tutorial, click here.

Natural History Education Pilot

serious adventuregame

located inMuseum für Naturkundein Berlin

MemoryMatch:game for children

Application code on GitHub: https://github.com/semantikaeu/memorymatch/

Social Networks Pilot

Sound Connections

invite communities to interactenrich sounds withEuropeana materialsand other websources

Tourism Pilot

recreate paintings and images and share via social media

Design Pilot

Nightingale & Canary by Andy Thomas

As part of the eCreative Social Networks Pilot, commissioned by Sound and Vision

http://vimeo.com/103364847

Lizzy Komenlkomen@beeldengeluid.nl

@lizzykomen

Thank you!www.europeanacreative.eutwitter.com/eCreativeEUwww.facebook.com/EuropeanaCreative

With slides from:• Max Kaiser• Harry Verwayen• Johan Oomen