EUROPEANA

EUROPEANA Brussels December 2009Karin Heijink - Business Development Director

Vision

“A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the

European cultural heritage.”

European Parliament, 27 September 2007

“A unique resource for Europe's distributed cultural heritage… ensuring a

common access to Europe's libraries, archives and museums.”

Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Information Society

Directorate, European Commission

Europeana v1.0

• Successor of EDLNet – proof of concept/prototyp

Objectives

• Maintaining and extending a powerful alliance of stakeholders

• Creation of an operational Europeana service

• Disseminating the service to end users

• Finding a viable organisational solution

• Policy development

• Creating a sustainable funding model.

EDL Foundation Governance

Funding & Orientation Group Linked to Member States Expert Group

Advisory &

Budgetary rolesHolds legal power &

Reports on finance &

strategy

Executive Committee

Board of Participants

Council of Content Providers & Aggregators

Up to 5/6

elected

Up to 9

elected

EDL Foundation

Board of participants from the professional heritage

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

Athena

APEnet

Biodiversity Heritage

Libraries Europe

EUScreen

EuropeanFilmGateway

EuropeanaLocal

EuropeanaTravel

Musical Inst.

Museums Online

Judaica

Europeana

The European Library

EuropeanaConnect

Europeana v.1.0

Europeana Group of Projects

ArrowPrestoPrime

Europeana

Rhine release Danube release

Audiences

• Professional Users

• Librarians, curators, archivist

• Educational Users

• Professors/teachers

• Students/pupils

• General Users

• Serious hobbyist (genealogy, local history)

User survey

•Online User Survey 6-26 May 2009

•3,204 completed

•Replies from 54 countries - 53% of replies from five countries

•Almost everyone expects to visit the site again – less than 1% says they will not revisit

•Main route to Europeana is from a paper or journal(47.4%), second most popular is a link from another web site (21%)

•Personal research is dominant reason (72.9%)

3. Statistics – Users’ rating of general features

Site navigation Good/excellent AveragePoor/very

poor 100

Search functions Good/excellent AveragePoor/very

poor100

Presentation ofresults

Good/excellent AveragePoor/very

poor100

Ease of access tocontent

Good/excellent AveragePoor/very

poor100

• Majority rate features and functions as “good” or “excellent”. Around a third of all respondents only rate the general features and functions as “average”.

Content

• Content : 5+ million items from every domain, every EU

member

• 3,500,000 images: photos, paintings, drawings, postcards,

posters

• 1,300,000 texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts,

letters

• 82,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts,

public information films

• 20,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field

recordings

Spread by country

82% of the content comes from 4 countries

Spread by provider

70% of the content comes from 4 providers

40%, Culture Fr

12%, Saxon9%, Het Geheugen

van NL

8%,BNF

7%, Scran

5%, Knowledge

Management

4%,

Nasjonalbiblioteket

4%, Kansalliskirjasto

3%,

Stadtgeschitliches

12%, Others

Content Strategy

• Promotion and support of aggregators

• Collaboration between all Europeana related projects

• Even representation of all European Countries & Cultures

• Increase diversity of types of Content

• Development of relevant themes of content available

The role of Aggregators

• Business Process

• Content Aggregation & Ingestion Process

• Organisational Model

• Information flow and expertise

• Financial Sustainability

• Broader support & keeping Europeana office small

• End-users

• creating a virtuous cricle

Content & Information flow

Activities to promote Aggregation

• Establishement of CCPA & Aggregators Group

• Aggregator Survey

• Aggregator Handbook

• Training

• Developing business models and assessment of cultural and

economic impact of aggregators

• Europeana Content Checker

• Europeana source code

• Identifying potential new aggregators

Collaboration between projects

• Content Aggregation

• EuropeanaLocal – local and regional aggregators

• Athena – Museums

• Collaboration new partners

• Focus on tier 1 countries

• Focus on audio & audio visual

Representation of countries

• Identified 3 tiers

• Tier 1 < 1% - high priority

• Tier 2 1-5% - medium priority

• Tier 3 >5% - low priority

• Belgium – 54,311 items

• Now tier 2 country – but only just with 1,09%

• Aim for Summer 2010 – 4% of content – 400,000 items

Join a local or regional aggregator,

help us build the Belgium content in Europeana

Why joining Europeana?

• Prestigious initiative

• Endorsement from European Commission

• Erasmus Award 2009

• Knowledge exchange with professional network

• Metadata standards

• Best practices

• Technological innovation

• Popularity among users

• User survey results:

� Loyal user base (60% of respondents visiting the site more

than 5 times);

� Overall positive ratings for Europeana features and functions

GP1

GP2

Dia 21

GP1 Europeana’s cross-domain contentThe value of contributing content to EuropeanaMetadata standardsCase studies demonstrating benefits and best practiceMilestones, deliverables and achievements, notably Rhine releaseForthcoming events – workshops, conferences etcStrategic and policy issuesStaying relevant to usersValue of sharing source code Technolgical innovationaal030; 30/10/2009

GP2 Europeana’s cross-domain contentThe value of contributing content to EuropeanaMetadata standardsCase studies demonstrating benefits and best practiceMilestones, deliverables and achievements, notably Rhine releaseForthcoming events – workshops, conferences etcStrategic and policy issuesStaying relevant to usersValue of sharing source code Technolgical innovationaal030; 30/10/2009

Why joining Europeana?

• Reaching out to users

• Remain relevant

• Put content where people are

• Open up your marvelous collections

•Content remains within your organisation

• Increase traffic to your site• User interest in viewing items in original context

• 75% of Europeana user survey respondents thought it very useful to view the searched object in its original context.

Future Vision

Europeana beyond Europeana Version 1.0

• Full services and functionalities

• Greater content

� Summer 2010 Rhine Release

10 million items

� 2011 Danube Release

expect to double content

� By 2012 25 million items

� … Further growing content

Questions?

• [email protected]

• www.europeana.eu

• https://version1.europeana.eu