What is this Europeana thing? Breandán Knowlton – @bfk Europeana Creative Kick-Off, 21 February 2013, Vienna
Jan 12, 2015
What is this Europeana thing?Breandán Knowlton – @bfk
Europeana Creative Kick-Off, 21 February 2013, Vienna
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Breandán KnowltonProgramme ManagerEuropeana Foundation
B @ breandan.org@bfk
Today
• What is Europeana?
• What Sort of Projects Do We Do?
• What’s Next?
What is Europeana?
2008
2008
Europeana is a website ….
Actually a series of websites ….
And an Application Programming Interface (API) ...
Built on a data service, with ….
• 150 aggregators and other data providers, representing ...
• 3,000 museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections, which have contributed ...
• 26 million digital objects, of which ...
• 6 million are available for commercial re-use.
and grow
ing!
It’s operated by a non-profit, the Europeana Foundation
It’s operated by a non-profit, the Europeana Foundation
Along with a dizzying array ofMuseums, Archives and Libraries
Called theEuropeana Network
The Foundation and the Network work on Projects …like Europeana Creative.
Europeana PhotographyEuropeana Inside Europeana 1914-1918Europeana Libraries Europeana Newspapers
Europeana Projects
Core Projects
Partner Projects
Subcontracts
Europeana Version 1
Europeana Version 2Europeana Awareness
Europeana CloudEuropeana Creative
Europeana Cloud
•Ingest 2.4m metadata records and 5m digitised
objects in a cloud-based infrastructure
•Content available for reuse by a targeted group of humanities and social science scholars.
•Create the Europeana Research portal
•Explore the potential of cloud computing
technologies
•Infrastructure for the use of anyone
How do we do that?
Aggregate
Build the trusted source for cultural heritage.
Facilitate
Support the cultural heritagesector through knowledge
transfer, innovation & advocacy.
Distribute
Make heritage available wherever users are
whenever they want it.
Engage
Cultivate new ways for users to participate
in their cultural heritage.
Engagement
User Engagement
Concepts
Target Groups
Themed Content
Partners Interactive Platform
We engage online.
Virtual Exhibitions
Site for cultural professionals
Blog
Newsletter
Professional Blog
And connect to offline.
Some Exciting Projects
Collaboration with Wikipedia
Some Exciting Projects
Hackathons and Hack4Europe
Some Exciting Projects
WWI Community Collection Days
But there’s a big gap.
We can’t build all of the engagement platforms.
But we’re not enabling creative industry to do it, either.
What’s Next?
1. Linked Open Data
The Europeana Licensing Framework
2. Extend the Licensing Framework
from metadata to content
3. Crowdsourcing Campaigns
And our newest initiative ...
4. The Europeana Open Lab Network
Engagement
Watch these:www.europeana.eublog.europeana.eu
pro.europeana.eu/blog
Join this:
Do this?
Thank you!Breandán KnowltonProgramme ManagerEuropeana Foundation
B @ breandan.orgPro.europeana.eu