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Europeana.eu: cultural collaboration
across borders and domains
Jon Purday
Senior Communications Advisor, Europeana
The 12th Annual International Conference «EVA 2009 Moscow»
What is Europeana.eu ?
• Prototype portal launched in November 2008
• Public access point for European cultural and
scientific heritage
• Links users to content digitised by libraries,
museums, archives and audiovisual collections
• Content from all 27 European Union Member States
• Multilingual interface in 26 languages
• Material from over 1,000 content providers
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What’s in the Europeana prototype ?
• Current contents: 4.5 million items
• 3,500,000 images: paintings, drawings, postcards,
posters, photos, pictures of museum objects
• 935,000 texts: books, newspaper articles,
manuscripts, letters
• 115,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV
broadcasts, public information films
• 13,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field
recordings
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Securing collaboration
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Stakeholder collaboration at the top level
• EDL Foundation’s Board of Participants from the cutural
heritage and research associations:
• ACE: Association Cinémathèques Européennes
• CENL: Conference of European National Librarians
• CERL: Consortium of European Research Libraries
• EMF: European Museum Forum
• EURBICA: European Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives
• FIAT: International Federation of Television Archives
• IASA: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
• ICOM Europe: International Council of Museums, Europe
• LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
• MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
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Partner collaboration at the site-building level
The Europeana partner network
• 150+ partners from museums, libraries, archives,
audiovisual collections, software developers, university
research
• Representatives from every Member State
• Promotes technology and knowledge transfer across the
sectors and between Member States
• Shares common standards and best practice
• Technical experts lead work groups developing use cases,
data models, components etc.
• Network translates all parts of the interface into 26
languages
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Aggregators promote collaboration
Museum A Archive A Library A
Library X
National Digital Library
Archive X
Film Archive 1
National aggregator
Film Archive 2
ACE
Film Archive 3
Museum X
Museum 1
ICOM
Europe
CENL
Museum 2
MICHAEL
Eurbica
National Library 1 NL 2 NL 3
National Archive 1
National Archive 2
FIAT
Television
Archive 1
EU Screen
Television
Archive 2
National Archive 3
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Collaboration and the growth of Europeana
STERNA
Judaica
Presto
Prime
MIMO
BHL
Europe
Europeana
Local
European
Film
Gateway
Europeana v1.0
Video Active
Europeana.eu
Europeana Europeana Connect
Travel
Archives Portal Europe
[APEnet]
Arrow
EUScreen
Athena
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Content providers to Europeana
Major new release in 2010 will give access to 10 million items from:
• Athena: museum objects
• Archives Portal Europe [APEnet]: national archives
• Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL Europe]: texts and taxonomies
• European Film Gateway: film, scripts, posters, stills
• Europeana Connect: sound recordings
• Europeana Travel: exploration, tourism and cartography
• Europeana Local: regional libraries and museums
• EU Screen: TV broadcasts
• Judaica Europeana: documentation of Jewish life in Europe’s cities
• Museum of Musical Instruments Online: images and audiovisual of instruments
Information about all the projects contributing to Europeana:
http://group.europeana.eu
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Rhine release
Danube release
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Thank you
[email protected]
www.europeana.eu
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