Europeana aims to make digital cultural heritage openly accessible to foster knowledge exchange and cultural understanding in Europe. It aggregates over 24 million objects from 2,200 content providers through 142 aggregators. While it distributes content through various platforms, Europeana sees issues with its current "linear" model and governance structure. It proposes rethinking itself as a "commons" through principles of access, mutuality, engagement, and attribution. Three pilot projects are planned for an infrastructure commons, research commons, and cultural tourism commons to test different approaches and find sustainable solutions.

1. Europeana, the Commons and CC0
12.12.12 Caring is Sharing, Copenhagen

5. Vision:
Openly accessible digital cultural heritage will foster the
exchange of ideas and knowledge, lead to a better
mutual understanding of our cultural diversity and
support a thriving knowledge economy in Europe
-Council of Europe 2008-

6. Aggregated
• 2200+ content
providers
• 142 aggregators
• 24 million objects
Distributed
• Portal
• Mobile
• Tablet
• API
• LOD

9. Network
• 500 + members

10. Network
• 500 + members
Breakdown
Galleries: 2
Libraries: 111
Archives: 26
Museums: 60
National Aggs: 22
Publishers: 2
Creative Ind: 5
Research: 78
Ministries: 9
Other: 174

11. Network
• 500+ members
Breakdown
Galleries: 2
Libraries: 111
Archives: 26
Museums: 60
National Aggs: 22
Publishers: 2
Creative Ind: 5
Research: 78
Ministries: 9
Other: 174

12. APENET
National Archive
2008-2011

16. The key to being able to make the switch from Aggregator to
Distributor serving the user wherever they are was changing the
licensing framework

17. All Europeana metadata
under a CC0 licence

21. Issue 1: Our interaction with users is still very much ‘push’

22. Issue 2: in this ‘linear model’, there is not enough sense of shared
ownership and cooperation

23. Issue 3: we believe in opening up data. Does this leave room for
paid services?

24. Issue 4: in the current governance structure the ‘users’ take no part

25. Can we rethink Europeana as a Commons or set of Commons?

30. We’ve started:

31. European Cultural Commons Principles
Access
Mutuality
Engagement
Attribution
Consistency

32. Next steps are to apply the
principles to 3 pilots to find out
what works, what doesn’t, what
needs negotiating:

33. An infrastructure commons:
Core Platform
3-year project
Europeana
Cloud
Cloud-based
infrastructure for
the storage &
sharing of data &
content
Offering
Repository
economies of
scale
With access to
knowledge &
solutions for
sustainability,
licensing
&governance

34. DANS
CESSDA
Europeana
TEL
DARIAH
A Research Commons:
CLARIN
Europeana Research
researcher
cultural tourist
Europeana
Research:
Cross-domain
platform to support
digital scholarship
Emphasis on open
access content,
tools and services
Data from
Europeana but
also content from
willing museum,
library, archive,
audio visual
providers

35. A Cultural Tourism Commons:
Europeana Creative
Open Culture Labs
• Pilots:
working with cultural
tourism providers
•Content Reuse to
Generate footfall
Knowledge
ROI from sales

37. Where caring is sharing and the world is a better place
@guardian weekly -photographer: jean baptiste lopez

38. Thank you
Jill Cousins
Jill.Cousins@kb.nl

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