This document discusses the history and current state of Europeana, the largest digital library in Europe. It provides background on Europeana, noting that it holds over 1 million objects and has expanded greatly in physical and online space since reopening in 2013. The document also outlines Europeana's efforts to make more of its public domain works available online through initiatives like releasing image datasets and developing the Rijksstudio tool, which allows free downloads of high quality images and paid access to larger files. It discusses Europeana's shifting policies around copyright and commercial use of its online collection over time.

1. Europeana - Where are we today
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2. Little bit of background
à Largest
à Over 1 million objects
à “Closed” between 2003 and 2013
à 800 square meters while closed
à 22.000 square meters after re-opening
à Currently about 8000 objects on display
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3. @jpekel
’There
is
not
a
single
physical
space
where
all
the
objects
can
be
shown,
but
on
the
internet
you
can.’
Lizzy Jongma during interview

4. The first steps (early 2011)
à Not much information about copyright status of collection
à CC-BY license
à Discusion with Europeana
à Small set of lesser known works released
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5. Public Domain Charter (2010)
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’Exclusive
control
over
public
domain
works
cannot
be
re-­‐established
by
claiming
exclusive
rights
in
technical
reproduc?ons
of
the
works,
or
by
using
technical
and/
or
contractual
measures
to
limit
access
to
technical
reproduc?ons
of
such
works.
Works
that
are
in
the
public
domain
in
analogue
form
con?nue
to
be
in
the
public
domain
once
they
have
been
digi?sed.´

6. The next phase (end of 2011)
à Open Data hackathon
à Marketing stepped in
à “Our core mission to get people to know our collection”
à Large set of Public Domain works in high quality
à 4500x4500, jpg, +/- 2 mb
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7. This resulted in
à The most used dataset of Apps4Netherlands
à More discusion internally
à Less ‘bad copies’ being used
à More images being made available
à The Rijksstudio
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8. @jpekel
’With
the
internet,
it’s
so
difficult
to
control
your
copyright
or
use
of
images
that
we
decided
we’d
rather
people
use
a
very
good
high-­‐
resolu?on
image
of
the
‘Milkmaid’
from
the
Rijksmuseum
rather
than
using
a
very
bad
reproduc?on.’
Taco Dibbits during an interview with the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/
arts/design/museums-mull-public-use-of-online-art-images.html?_r=0!

9. Different prices for different sizes
à High quality image free to download
à Master file for sale - € 40-
à Asked the user if they planned to use it ‘commercially’
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10. Image sale
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11. Different prices for different sizes
à October 2013 - Decided to remove all restrictions
à Focus on larger digitisation funds instead of image sale
à Actively encourage people to remix with the ‘Rijksstudio
Award’
à New images automatically added by their API
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12. Thank you
Joris Pekel
Joris.pekel@europeana.eu
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