Talk at the Zagreb Festival of Digital Heritage about copyright. The issues are addressed and how Europeana together with the network tries to solve this. It also gives an overview of the different licenses being used and finally focusses on what makes good quality metadata.

1. Copyright and Data Quality
!!
Joris Pekel
Zagreb, Croatia 11/04/2014@jpekel

2. Content
à Copyright, why is it important?
à Why is there an issue?
à Metadata vs. Content
à Rights labels of Europeana
@jpekel

3. Why is there an issue?
@jpekel

4. Why is there an issue?
@jpekel
à Copyright not made for the digital world

5. Why is there an issue?
@jpekel
à Copyright not made for the digital world
à Fear of doing it wrong

6. Why is there an issue?
@jpekel
à Copyright not made for the digital world
à Fear of doing it wrong
à Expect curators/librarians/archivists to become
‘amateur lawyers’

7. Why is there an issue?
@jpekel
à Copyright not made for the digital world
à Fear of doing it wrong
à Expect curators/librarians/archivists to become
‘amateur lawyers’
à Unclear for (re-)user what is allowed

8. Why is there an issue?
@jpekel
à Copyright not made for the digital world
à Fear of doing it wrong
à Expect curators/librarians/archivists to become
‘amateur lawyers’
à Unclear for (re-)user what is allowed
à Decrease of the Public Domain

9. Why is there an issue?
@jpekel
à Copyright not made for the digital world
à Fear of doing it wrong
à Expect curators/librarians/archivists to become
‘amateur lawyers’
à Unclear for (re-)user what is allowed
à Decrease of the Public Domain

10. Why is there an issue?
@jpekel
à Copyright not made for the digital world
à Fear of doing it wrong
à Expect curators/librarians/archivists to become
‘amateur lawyers’
à Unclear for (re-)user what is allowed
à Decrease of the Public Domain

11. Why is there an issue?
@jpekel
à Copyright not made for the digital world
à Fear of doing it wrong
à Expect curators/librarians/archivists to become
‘amateur lawyers’
à Unclear for (re-)user what is allowed
à Decrease of the Public Domain

12. 4
Layer #1: Digital objects (on the site of the provider)!
Layer #2: Previews (lower quality versions of #1) !
Layer #3: Metadata (descriptive object information)!
EDM:rights!
Preview & Digital Objects are licensed as
described in EDM: rights !
CCO!
@jpekel

13. 5
Twelve Rights Statements available for
EDM: rights!
@jpekel

14. 6
Twelve Rights Statements available for
EDM: rights!
@jpekel

15. @jpekel

16. @jpekel

17. Open culture on culture
@jpekel

18. Open culture on culture
à What is in the Public Domain stays in the Public
Domain
@jpekel

19. Open culture on culture
à What is in the Public Domain stays in the Public
Domain
à If you have the rights to openly license content, do so
@jpekel

20. Open?
@jpekel
http://opendefinition.org

21. Open?
@jpekel
“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to
use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most,
to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”
http://opendefinition.org

22. Rights Labelling

23. Rights Labelling
à G

24. Rights Labelling
à G

25. Decrease of the Public Domain
@jpekel

26. Decrease of the Public Domain
à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public
Domain works
@jpekel

27. Decrease of the Public Domain
à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public
Domain works
à Extensions of copyright duration
@jpekel

28. Decrease of the Public Domain
à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public
Domain works
à Extensions of copyright duration
à Public Private partnerships
@jpekel

29. Decrease of the Public Domain
à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public
Domain works
à Extensions of copyright duration
à Public Private partnerships
à Unclear legal situation
@jpekel

30. Decrease of the Public Domain
à Re-licensing of digital reproductions of Public
Domain works
à Extensions of copyright duration
à Public Private partnerships
à Unclear legal situation
à Digitisation and storage not for free - new business
models are needed
@jpekel

31. Open culture on culture
@jpekel

32. The rights statements in Europeana

33. @jpekel
Paid Access - No Reuse

34. @jpekel
Free Access - No Re-use

35. @jpekel
CC-BY-NC-ND

36. @jpekel
CC-BY-NC-SA

37. @jpekel
CC-BY-NC
!
!

38. @jpekel
CC-BY-ND
!
!

39. @jpekel
CC-BY-SA

40. @jpekel
CC-BY
!

41. @jpekel
CC0

42. @jpekel
Public Domain Marked

43. @jpekel
Orphan Work
!
!

44. @jpekel
Looking for Re-usable Content
!
!

45. @jpekel
Looking for Re-usable Content
!
!

46. @jpekel
Looking for Re-usable Content
!
!

47. @jpekel
Looking for Re-usable Content
!
!

48. Commonly heard issues
@jpekel

49. Commonly heard issues
à We have our own licensing policy
@jpekel

50. Commonly heard issues
à We have our own licensing policy
à Our collection is very complex
@jpekel

51. Commonly heard issues
à We have our own licensing policy
à Our collection is very complex
à Europeana Rights Statements do not apply to us
@jpekel

52. Commonly heard issues
à We have our own licensing policy
à Our collection is very complex
à Europeana Rights Statements do not apply to us
à We don’t need to provide a Rights Statement - that is
clear from our website
@jpekel

53. Commonly heard issues
à We have our own licensing policy
à Our collection is very complex
à Europeana Rights Statements do not apply to us
à We don’t need to provide a Rights Statement - that is
clear from our website
à We don’t know which Rights Statement applies
@jpekel

54. How we are trying to solve these
@jpekel

55. How we are trying to solve these
à We have clear and readable rights statements
@jpekel

56. How we are trying to solve these
à We have clear and readable rights statements
à We provide tools to determine rights statements
@jpekel

57. How we are trying to solve these
à We have clear and readable rights statements
à We provide tools to determine rights statements
à We organise workshops with institutions about
copyright
@jpekel

58. How we are trying to solve these
à We have clear and readable rights statements
à We provide tools to determine rights statements
à We organise workshops with institutions about
copyright
à We push for copyright reform and harmonisation on
a European level
@jpekel

59. How we are trying to solve these
à We have clear and readable rights statements
à We provide tools to determine rights statements
à We organise workshops with institutions about
copyright
à We push for copyright reform and harmonisation on
a European level
à We advocate for an open approach via publications
and blogs
@jpekel

60. How we are trying to solve these
à We have clear and readable rights statements
à We provide tools to determine rights statements
à We organise workshops with institutions about
copyright
à We push for copyright reform and harmonisation on
a European level
à We advocate for an open approach via publications
and blogs
à We monitor the usage and appropriateness of the
Rights statements
@jpekel

61. Metadata quality

62. How can we define Metadata Quality?
DATA
PROVIDER
EUROPEANA
AGGREGATOR
!
A COLLABORATIVE
PROCESS
END USER

63. Why should we improve metadata
quality?
à Institutions benefit
à End users benefit
à Makes searches easier
à Creates an emotional connection with the digital object
v. important in relation to images
à Richer resource
à Wider end user base (research/academia)
à More page view and longer page stays
à Greater click through rates
à But how do we get it?!

64. What is good metadata quality?
à Mandatory elements
à Depth of description (meaningful titles)
à Direct links to digital object
à High quality previews and digital objects
à Accurate rights statements
à Geo coordinates (geonames, edm:place)
à Persistent Identifiers (less broken links, Google indexing)
à Vocabularies / external resources for enrichment
à EDM

65. What Europeana currently asks for:
à Preferably EDM
à 9 Unique meaningful elements in EDM (unless UGC)
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à These are only the minimum elements required

66. What that looks like practically
Via EuropeanaPhotography

67. What that looks like practically
Via EuropeanaPhotography

68. What metadata quality looks like

69. What metadata quality looks like
Web resource class

70. What that looks like practically…
Agent Class

71. What can be improved in Metadata

72. Meaningful titles

73. Meaningful titles and images

74. Thumbnails, persistently working links,
image quality, mandatory elements

75. Attribution and Rights Labeling
Showing the EDM:rights under the image and dc:rights in
the record

76. Metadata quality recommendations
à Metadata is a circular process
à Metadata is the only way to reach our end users
à It should be considered as your product
à Make your product as salient as possible by providing as much
meaningful data as you can manage!
à Meaningful content in the EDM mandatory elements plus
recommended elements makes for a great readable record with
increased traffic
à Metadata is a circular process

77. Key Messages

78. Europeana Ingestion Process and
Metadata Quality
• Aiming to improve communication for data providers
• More structured processes and policies
• Clear and transparent approach towards rights labels
• Helping partners with their metadata to create a better
experience for end users and create more traffic for institutions

79. Thank you
Joris Pekel
Joris.pekel@kb.nl@jpekel