A presentation given by Breandán Knowlton of the Europeana project to the Linked Heritage "Aggregation and Semantic Web Workshop" on 22 May 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden. Outlines the primary structures and goals of the Europeana project.

1. Europeana in a Nutshell
Breandán Knowlton
“Aggregation & Semantic Web” workshop, 22 May 2012, Stockholm

2. Breandán
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Programme Manager
Europeana Foundation

3. Today
• What We Do at Europeana
• Why We Do It
• Some Exciting Projects
• What We Need From You
• What’s Next?

4. What is
Europeana?

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6. And as of now, we represent ….
• 120 aggregators and other data providers,
representing ...
• 2,200 museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual
collections, which have contributed ...
• 23,410,637 digital objects, of which ...
• 3,000,000 are in the public domain.
and
grow
ing!

7. Our Aggregation Structure
Domain Aggregators Country Aggregators
Museums National Aggregators
Regional AggregatorsArchives
Libraries
Museums, libraries & archives
Film Archives
Sound Archives
Dark Aggregators
Museums,
libraries & archives
Museums,
libraries
& archives

8. What is
Europeana?
WHY

9. France
Poland
Germany
Italy
Spain
Hungary
2005

10. 2007

11. The political vision
★ ‘Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural
material are essential to highlight cultural and
scientific heritage, to inspire the creation of
new content and to encourage new online
services to emerge. They help to democratise
access to culture and knowledge and to
develop the information society and the
knowledge-based economy.’
~ European Council of Ministers
2008

12. 2008

13. 2008

14. 2009

15. 2010

16. 2011

17. “All public domain masterpieces
should be brought into Europeana”
“Metadata should be widely and
freely available for re-use”
“the reference point for
European culture online”
“Public Domain material should be freely
available for all”
“Public funding for digitisation should be conditional
on free accessibility through Europeana”
2011

18. Strategic Plan
2011-2015

20. Aggregate
• Extend the network of aggregators
• Improve the quality of the metadata
• Represent the diversity of our cultural heritage
Build the trusted source
for cultural heritage.
Build the trusted source
for cultural heritage.

21. Facilitate
• Share knowledge among heritage professionals
• Foster Research & Development
• Strengthen Europeana’s advocacy role
Support the cultural heritage
sector through knowledge
transfer, innovation & advocacy.
Support the cultural heritage
sector through knowledge
transfer, innovation & advocacy.

22. Distribute
• Upgrade the Europeana portal
• Put content in the users’ workflow
• Develop partnerships to deliver content
in new ways
Make heritage available
wherever users are
whenever they want it.
Make heritage available
wherever users are
whenever they want it.

23. Engage
• Enhance the user experience
• Extend our use of social media
• Broker a new relationship between
curators, content and users
Cultivate new ways
for users to participate
in their cultural heritage.
Cultivate new ways
for users to participate
in their cultural heritage.

24. What Are
We Working
On?

25. Some Exciting Projects
★Community Collection Days★Community Collection Days
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26. Some Exciting Projects
★Collaboration with Wikipedia★Collaboration with Wikipedia
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27. Some Exciting Projects
★Hackathons and Hack4Europe★Hackathons and Hack4Europe
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29. Getting the
Word Out

30. Virtual Exhibitions
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31. Blog

32. Newsletter

33. What Do We
Need From
You?

34. So, What Do We Need From You?
•Great Content
•Great Technologies
•A Commitment to Open Metadata
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35. Sign Me Up!
1: Data Exchange Information form
2: Sign the Data Exchange Agreement
3: You work with our Operations team
4: We give you feedback
5: We ingest your datasets – yay!
6: We ingest new and updated data
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… to contribute content.

36. Let’s Build Stuff
• Help you with technical specifications
• Provide access to test environments
• Build domain data models for EDM
• Provide connections to our Network
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• We can ...

37. But most of all
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• We need a commitment
to open licensing of your metadata

38. So …
What’s
Next?

39. And In the Future?
• Structured Data (EDM)
• API and widgets
• Linked Open Data
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41. It’s all about:
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• Aggregating into a trusted repository
• Facilitating the cultural heritage sector
• Distributing content in users’ workflows
• Engaging users with culture in new ways

42. Watch these:
www.europeana.eu
blog.europeana.eu
pro.europeana.eu

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44. Thank you!
Breandán Knowlton
Programme Manager
Europeana Foundation
b @ breandan.org