Europeana, making it work for the creative

industries

Yvo Volman European Commission

Enjeux de l’économie de la connaissance Paris, 9-3-2012

Context

• Digital Agenda for Europe: Using ICT for growth and the economy and improving quality of life

• Digitisation and development of Europeana key action in the Digital Agenda

• Europeana launched in 2008

• Strong support from Ministers of Culture and the European Parliament

• Letter of 6 Heads of State and Government in 2005

Every European Digital

Europeana today

• More than 20 million objects from more than 2,000 institutions

• Solid organisational basis and network

• Biggest collaborative cultural endeavour at European level

• Relevance for citizens and for the economy

• Example for the Digital Public Library of America

Europeana and the creative industries

• Link to content brought in by commercial

providers available against payment

• Using the digitised material for new information

products and services

• Education, tourism, design…

• Improving language technologies, search, data-mining

etc

• Use conditions decided by the content holders

• Innovation based on the use of metadata (e.g.

apps)

Hackathons 2011

• 5 cities across Europe

• Shows the potential of the Europeana metadata

• Audience award: Timebook

• Europeana data exchange agreement

• In force on 1 July 2012

• Much more open than the earlier DEA

Apps for Educational use

Partner websites with some commercial

use

Making full use of the Europeana API

Funding possibilities

• CIP-IST-PSP programme

• Workprogramme 2012: line on ‘experimenting with the use of cultural material for creativity’

• Experimentation, creative applications and services that make the best use of Europeana cultural resources

• Collaborative projects

• Call for proposals closes on 15 May 2012

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm

‘Comite des Sages’ on digitisation

“We can reasonably expect that the arrival of millions of new digitised cultural works online wil spur a wave of innovation and new business models for companies specialised in various stages of the digitisation chain, as well as in creative content”