Europeana 2011

Jill Cousins, Europeana v1 WorkGroups Kickoff, 2 April 2009

The vision of 2006

• “A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “

European Union Communiqué August 2006

Have we achieved this?

• Nearly 5 million objects • Partner network of circa 200 institutions• Object model designed• Governance model• Fully functioning prototype• Business model proposed• Attracted 8 million euros worth of funding• Begun to set up an organisation

A vision for 2011

• Aggregator• Distributor• Catalyst• Innovator• Facilitator• Revenue generator

Europeana the Aggregator

Europeana the Distributor

content, webservices, workforce, knowledge....

Europeana the catalyst

• Content + new technology = new tool or new service

+ =

Europeana the Innovator

Virtual exhibitions

Stories

Colour searching

Personalisation

Multilingual search

Music bar search

Geographic Referencing

Collaborative working

Reuse

Video sampling

RDF Triplets

Europeana the facilitator

Repositories: language, cross walks, thesauri Tools: Europeana Licensing Framework..........Policies: Annotations, Public Domain, User Generated Content..........

Europeana the revenue generator

• Affiliate income• Traffic to cultural institution webshops – super webshop?• Enriched data structures• Exhibition promoter• Advertiser

A vision for 2011

• “A common multilingual access point would make it possible to and search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “

European Union Communiqué August 2010

Revenue generator

aggregator, distributor and facilitator

Facilitator

Distributor

Innovator

Catalyst

, innovate and generate revenue from

Aggregator

catalyse

How are we going to get there?

• Automate Ingestion• Improve our data• Solve IPR issues• Manage user generated content• Turn Object model from theory to usable reality• Improve multilingual search and retrieval• Treble the number of objects to access• Create a Brand• Market Europeana• Agree governance• Bid for more projects• Create an Europeana Open Source Development Community• Develop new partnerships• Secure long term non project funding

V1.0

A bit of work to do....

• Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. • Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

• John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

• This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

• Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)

• Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)

• Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

A bit of work to do....

• “God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. “ Anonymous,