Europeana & the Battle of Waterloo

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19Mar2013, Brussels

What is Europeana?

Vision:

We believe in making cultural heritage openly accessible in a digital way, to promote the

exchange of ideas and information. This helps us all to understand our cultural diversity better

and contributes to a thriving knowledge economy.

The Digital Agenda for Europe‘Europe has probably the world's greatest cultural heritage. Digitisation brings culture into people's homes and is a valuable resource for education, tourism, games, animation and the whole creative industry. Investing in digitisation will create new companies and generate new jobs.’

Europeana is Europe’s ‘flagship digitisation project’ and ‘one of Europe’s most amibitious cultural projects, and a successful one. It is a trusted source for our collective memory and a representation of European cultural heritage online.’

Neelie Kroes European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda

Aggregated• 2200+ content providers• 142 aggregators• 26.9 million objects •Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers•Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs•Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts•Film, newsreels, television•Curated exhibitions

Distributed• Portal• Mobile• Tablet• API• LOD

Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Engage – We cultivate new ways for people to participate in their cultural heritage

Aggregate – We are building the open, trusted source for European cultural content

Facilitate – We support the cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation and advocacy

Distribute – We make heritage available to people wherever they are, whenever they want it

Executive committee• Currently 8 members

Board of participants• 20 organisations plus

6 elected Network Officers

Europeana Network• 532 members elect

the 6 Network Officers

Europeana Office• 40+ members of staff based in

The Hague and the UK

Over a thousand people working on Europeana-related projects, activities and Task Forces across Europe

Europeana Structure

What does Europeana provide on the portal and for distribution to other portals or services?

Europeana metadata accesses:

Portal interface available in 31 languages

15.6m images10.6m texts454,000 sounds170,000 videos13,500 3D objects

What types of data does Europeana hold?

Texts Images Video Sound 3D

Objects related to Battle of Waterloo

You should find something from each of the ‘belligerents’

Who provides this content to Europeana?

Who submits data to Europeana?

Domain Aggregators National initiatives

Audiovisual collections

National Aggregators

Regional AggregatorsArchives

Thematic collections

Libraries

e.g. Musées Lausannois

e.g. Culture Grid,

Culture.fr

e.g. The European Library

e.g. APEX

e.g. EUScreen, European Film Gateway

e.g. Judaica Europeana, Europeana Fashion

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First level

• Second level• Third level

Via Public Collection Days

a life-saving Bible…

…a crucifix in a bottle…

…and a postcard

Europeana 1914-1918 – From concept to project

2008 - Oxford University & JISC launch the Great War Archive

2010-2011 – Europeana, DNB & Oxford University launch Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten

2012-2014 – Europeana launch a series of initiatives across Europe

- posters- flyers- postcards

Munich and Stuttgart

Luxembourg

Great Britain, Preston

The most successful roadshow so far, more than 600 participants.

Ireland, Dublin

Slovenia, Nova Gorica

Denmark, Sønderburg

Press launch in Berlin

- A3 Posters- Folder- Postcard

PR-CampaignEuropeana 1914-1918 in Germany

New Europeana Crowdsourcing campaign 2013-2014

Europeana 1989Will run in the following countries:

June 2013: Poland

August 2013:Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

October/ November 2013:Germany and Czech Republic

May/June 2014: Hungary

Accessing and re-using Europeana data

How do users access Europeana content?Europeana aims to provide content in the users’ workflow – where they want it, when they want it.Europeana portal

• e.g. via searches, virtual exhibitions, featured itemsProject portals/exhibitions

• e.g. BHL- Poisonous Nature, Europeana FashionWebsites and apps using Europeana API – devised at hackathons or independentlySocial media/blogs

• e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Retronaut

Europeana API

Hackathons to develop innovative new apps: Art Space

Where/How can we collaborate?

Give you access to the material we have to create a website - API

Use your contacts to get more material – museums/archives/libraries?

Community Collection? Maybe from museums? Via Antique Road Show?

Create Exhibition on Battle of Waterloo see

Work on mobile app or game via a Hackathon

Connect into House of European History

Give you access to the material we have to create a website - API

Community Collection? Maybe from museums? Via Antique Road Show?

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First level

• Second level• Third level

Create Exhibition on Battle of Waterloo

Work on mobile app or game via a Hackathon

Hackathons to develop innovative new apps: Time Mash

Thank you

Jill Cousins

Jill.Cousins@kb.nl

History of Europeana April 2005: Jacques Chirac wrote to European Commission President

José Manuel Barroso, recommending the creation of a virtual European library

EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate had been supporting European digital information exchange projects for 15 years

September 2005: publication of EC’s i2010 strategy on digital libraries 2007: European Digital Library Network – EDLnet – began building

Europeana, funded under i2010 November 2008: Europeana prototype launched Summer 2010: prototype became an operational service funded under

the EC’s CIP ICT-PSP (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme)

January 2011: New Renaissance Report published - endorses Europeana as ‘the reference point for European culture online’

September 2012: Europeana metadata released under CC0 waiver, making it freely available for re-use

Europeana Foundation

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Europeana Licensing Framework