The Europeana Content Development Strategy

ASSETS Plenary and Workshops, February 2nd-4th

David Haskiya, Product Developer

Strategic Plan 2011-2015

• Aggregate

• Facilitate

• Distribute

• Engage

Content Analysis

• Strengths: Photography, Books/Newspapers/Letters, Artefacts, Art

• Weaknesses: Lack of audio-visual (film), Geographical imbalance

• Quality: Many objects with sparse metadata and broken links

Quality improvement plan• Improve documentation, raise standards and form an Ingestion Centre

• Persistent Identifiers, auto-checking broken links

• Clear rights and licences statements

• Enrich metadata through thesauri and authority files

Long term goals

• Encourage the creation of national aggregators for ALL countries

• Licensing solutions for orphan works and in-copyright works

• Public Private Partnerships with publishers and others

Distribute Europeana metadata

• Search Engines via SEO including Semantic Markup

• Portals and larger institutions via Linked Open Data and APIs

• Building a European Information Space

Distribute Europeana metadata

• Strategic partnerships with education, cultural tourism, publishers

• Small instutitons, communities and bloggers via widgets

• Social media campaigns via share, widgets, social objects

To facilitate this we need updated Data Agreements

• To improve quality and reach more users

• To align with the European Public Sector Information Directive

• We need Open (meta)Data!!!

Europeana is like judging a book by its cover

• We have the equivalent of a book cover

• Based on the cover the user decides whether to read the book

• The actual book is on our Data Provider’s sites

• So to get more readers we need to distribute the covers widely

So that was it. Let’s talk!

• Comments?

• Questions?

Further reading

• The Europeana Strategic Plan (full)

• The Content Development Strategy (full , summary)

• Linked Open Data (position paper , white paper)

• Public Domain Charter and Guidelines

The artists:Slide 1: Louis AnquetinSlide 4: Theophile Alexandre SteinlenSlide 5: André Louis Armand RassenfosseSlide 6: Andrew PenfieldSlide 7: Jules CheretSlide 9: Kolo MoserSlide 10: George Henri MeunierSlide 2,3,8,11,12: Unknown artists