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Europeana and the impact
of EuropeanaLocal
EuropeanaLocal Swedish conference, Härnösand
25 May 2011
Lizzy Komen, Europeana
1. Europeana today
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2. EuropeanaLocal contribution
3. What holds the future?
1. Europeana
Europe’s museum, library and archive online
Europeana Content today
Total: 19,1 million items in Europeana
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12,7 million images: photos, paintings, drawings,
postcards, posters
6 million texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts,
letters
145,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts,
public information films
272,00 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field
recordings
Content by country - Top 15
1%
Germany
2%
France
2%
4%
4%
Italy
3%
Spain
16%
Norway
5%
Sweden
5%
14%
Netherlands
Ireland
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UK
7%
Finland
8%
Poland
11%
9%
9%
Europe
Austria
Belgium
Slovenia
Content by type
1%
1%
31%
IMAGE
TEXT
VIDEO
SOUND
67%
Site Traffic
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Recent portal improvements
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New ordering results
 Faster search
 New static pages
 ‘Embed’ functionality
 Translation of descriptions
 External services search
 Rights information
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Search API and widget
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/api
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Hackathons
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/api/hackathons
2. EuropeanaLocal
Europeana Group of Projects
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
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Europeana Version 1.0
Europeana v2.0
EuropeanaConnect
EDLocal - Making local and regional content accessible through the European Digital
ARROW - Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana
EFG - European Film Gateway
ATHENA - Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe
PrestoPRIME
APENET - European Archives Gateway
EuropeanaTravel
BHL-Europe - Biodiversity Heritage Library Online
MIMO - Musical Instruments Museums Online
EUscreen - Exploring Europe’s Television Heritage in Changing Contexts
Europeana Regia : a digital collaborative library of royal manuscripts in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Judaica Europeana
1st project to
start
June 2008
CARARE - Connecting ARchaeology and ARchitecture in Europeana
ASSETS - Advanced Search Services and Enhanced Technological Solutions for Europeana
HOPE - Heritage of the People's Europe
EURO-Photo - Disclosing the European Library on common visual historical heritage
thinkMOTION - Digital Mechanism and Gear Library goes Europeana
ECLAP - Making accessible via Europeana a large amount of performing arts heritage material
Natural Europe - Natural History & Environmental Cultural Heritage in European Digital Libraries
Europeana Libraries
OpenUp! - Natural history multimedia content for Europeana
Linked Heritage
EuropeanaLocal content contribution
• EuropeanaLocal project contributed 25% of the total
content in Europeana today
• 1st project to deliver data to Europeana Prototype (Dec
’09)
• Better representation of local and region content in
Europeana
• Good increase in representation of tier 1 countries, that
had less than 1% content
Total Swedish data in Europeana 1,489,488
items
Data from…
• Swedish Open Cultural Heritage
• Riksarkivet
• EuropeanaTravel
• EuropeanaLocal Sweden:
• Murberget Länsmuseet Västernorrland
• Ljustorps hembygdsförening
• Umeå University Library
• Sundsvallsminnen
• Landsarkivet i Härnösand
EuropeanaLocal Sweden (62,211 items)
Some examples…
• Murberget Länsmuseet Västernorrland
Some examples…
• Ljustorps hembygdsförening
Some examples…
• Umeå University Library
More impact of EuropeanaLocal on
Europeana…
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Strategy, Awareness, Aggregation
Documentation & Guidelines (e.g. FAQ, ESE specs)
Workflows (e.g. ingestion planning)
Tools & Support (e.g. content checker)
3. Future
Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015
AGGREGATE
become THE trusted source for cultural heritage
Source content
Expand the network
Improve data quality
FACILITATE
Support cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation & advocay
Share
knowledge
Stengthen
advocacy
Foster R&D
DISTRIBUTE
Make heritage available wherever they are whenever they want it
Develop partnerships
Put content in user workflow
Upgrade portal
ENGAGE
cultivate new way for users to participate in their cultural heritage
Remaining major new functions/features in
Europeana 1.0
• Improved virtual exhibitions
• Map search and display
• Hierarchical object display
• Wikipedia enriched search results
• Semantic enrichments of metadata records
• Portal re-design
• Harvest and ingestion toolset adapted to EDM
Aggregation beyond EuropeanaLocal
•Local/regional content should go into aggregations that
Europeana will continue to harvest – a manageable number
•Continue to convince other local/regional content providers of the
value of getting involved
•Continue to make local content infrastructure available for
harvesting and indexing
•Make content available to other service providers
•Need for viable aggregator business models
•Action is needed at national level to aggregate local and regional
content ...its metadata
Council of Content Providers and Aggregators
• Sign up now! http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeanafoundation/content-council
Working groups:
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User Engagement
Financial / Sustainability
Ethical
Technical
Legal
• Creation of White Papers and Task Forces through Working
Groups
Thank you!