CulturaItalia - Europeana: what next? (EN)

Europeana: what next?

Jill CousinsJill CousinsEDL FoundationEDL Foundation

CulturaItaliaCulturaItalia, Rome, April 2, 2009, Rome, April 2, 2009

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“A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “

European Union Communiqué August 2006

Europeana.euEuropeana.eu ––The VisionThe Vision

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Thematic Network of 1.3 million euros across 4 domains: Museums,Libraries, Archives and Audiovisual Collections

To establish trust between the institutionsTo create a coalition of the willingTo tackle domain level interoperability issues (standards)To propose a practical implementation of the European Digital Library (a user defined prototype)To create the organisational structure for a European Digital Library

EuropeanaNetEuropeanaNet (EDLnet) Remit(EDLnet) Remit

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National Digital Library

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Eurbica National Archive 1MICHAEL

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Museum A Archive A Library A

FIAT

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IASA

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ICOM Europe

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A structure for A structure for EuropeanaEuropeana

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EDL

National Digital Library

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Museum A Archive A Library A

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ICOM Europe

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VideoActive

ATHENA

EFG

e.g. CulturaItalia

EuropeanaLocal

BHL

MIMO

EuropeanaConnect

Judaeica

EuropeanaTravel

EUScreen

STERNA

v1.0

National Archive 1

PrestoPrime

The The EuropeanaEuropeana Universe of Projects 2009Universe of Projects 2009

EURBICA

APENET

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Corporate sponsors

Europeana.euEuropeana.eu –– the Mutual Incentive Business Modelthe Mutual Incentive Business Model

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• Europeana.eu provides both cultural and economic value• Short term economic value intangible but cultural value high• Long term the economic potential helps balance books but not to cover €2.5-3.5

million running costs per year• Project funding creates the operational service but will not sustain it• Business model is therefore mixed –structural funding and revenue generation.• Revenue generation happens when service has eyeballs.

Business Model and Sustainability:

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Strong network 150 members, museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections, research institutes and universitiesALL EU countries representedALL sectors representedOver 4 million items are accessibleSearch across domains and material types worksStandards being agreed across & within domainsDomains talking to each other for the first timeA Beta Version of Europeana.eu

Huge Interest

EuropeanaNetEuropeanaNet ––The Successes in under a yearThe Successes in under a year

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Builds network, but pushes towards aggregation. Maintains Prototype, ingests some more contentActs as glue for various projectsWorks on governance and financingIncreases content to at least 10 million items by 2010Launches Europeana v1.0 operational service in June 2010Works on surrogate model and semantic searchCreates reuse possibilities

EuropeanaEuropeana v1.0v1.0

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4 new content provision projects : EuropeanaLocal, EFG, Athena and APEnet

Supported by co funding of €300,000 from the Netherlands Ministry of Culture, Education and Science and €72,500 from the Italian MiBAC

6 new projects starting early 2009 including: Europeana v.1.0 and EuropeanaConnect

Supported by co funding from Ministries of Culture and Education in Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain

a fully operational service within 2 yearsWith help from the Ministries of Culture and Education in Europe to solve the

issue of co-funding and hosting costs

EuropeanaEuropeana next 2 years next 2 years

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Purpose:• to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage.

The Foundation will: • facilitate formal agreement across museums, archives, audio-

visual archives and libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal.

• provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding purposesand as a springboard for future governance.

The EDL Foundation

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Present Shape of the EDL Foundation & itsGovernance

EuropeanAssociations

National AssociationsNational Institutions

Regional InstitutionsIndividual museums, archives, libraries

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Associates e.g.: ministries, sponsoring private partners etc

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EDLFoundation

National Digital Library

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Eurbica National Archive 1MICHAEL

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Library X

Museum A Archive A Library A

FIAT

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IASA

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ICOM Europe

Museum 1Museum 2

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Federation of European Publishers

Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C

A structure for A structure for EuropeanaEuropeana = A structure for EDL Foundation= A structure for EDL Foundation

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Proposed EDL Foundation Governance

Commission Funding & Orientation Group Commission & Paying Member States

Advisory & Budgetary roles

Holds legal power & Reports on finance & strategy

Executive Committee

Board of Participants

Council of Content Providers & Aggregators

Up to 5 elected

Up to 9elected

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Board of ParticipantsProposal

Participants can be:

A. European Associations (legal entities) of Content HoldersB. International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch

(non legal entities) of this associationC. Natural persons for the benefit of an association for one of the Domains, which is

not a legal entity.D. Existing/Founding members of the Board of Participants and the hosting

organisation (BnF, INA, BNS, BA, KB)E. Elected representatives of the Council of Content Providers and Aggregators (5)

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Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (CCPA)

Participants can be:A. Content Providers, individual institutionsB. Associations of Content ProvidersC. Aggregators (on all levels and all domains)

o 5 people/institutions to be elected to the Board of Participants from the Council of Content Providers & Aggregators (1 per Domain and 1 aggregator)

o The CCPA will convene at least 1x per annum for a general assemblyo The CCPA can form Working Groups on specific topics and themes to advise

the EDLF and associated projectso Members of the CCPA will actively be invited to participate in associated

projects

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Commission Funding & Orientation Group

Participants can be:A. Representatives of Member States that contribute to the EDLFB. Representatives of European Commission

o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group will advise the EDL Foundation on strategic and budget issues

o The EDL Exec. Committee will inform Commission Funding & Orientation Group on what is being done with the money and the strategy

o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group will be chaired by the Commission

o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group to convene around Member State Expert Group meetings

o The Commission Funding & Orientation Group made up of member states paying for Europeana

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o From 2011 needs budgetary commitment from member stateso New funding help to match any new projects in 2009 or 2010o Encouragment of aggregation at national levelso More content from institutionso Funding of digitisation and preservation in institutionso Engagement in the public domain and copyright debates

EuropeanaEuropeana needs needs

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o At least 15 million items o New sites using Europeana aggregated content

o For schoolchildreno For the visually disabledo For subject specific portal .....

o Europeana content in tourism sites, and via TomTomo Enabling virtual exhibitions e.g.: all of Titian, the Roman Empireo Users creating the associations between objectso A first level of multilingual search and retrievalo An aggregator of national and vertical aggregatorso A place of excitement and discovery

EuropeanaEuropeana in 3 yearsin 3 years

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