Europeana: what next - governance, finance and projects Jill Cousins Jill Cousins EDL Foundation EDL Foundation MSEG, Luxembourg, 29 January 2009 MSEG, Luxembourg, 29 January 2009
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Europeana: what next -governance, finance and projects
Jill CousinsJill Cousins
EDL FoundationEDL Foundation
MSEG, Luxembourg, 29 January 2009MSEG, Luxembourg, 29 January 2009
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o 150 network members o ALL EU countries o ALL sectors representedo Over 4 million items accessibleo Standards being agreed & appliedo Enormous publicityo Europeana Beta version back on 18 December 08o EDL Foundation as governance backboneo Financial backing from several ministrieso Business model published
Europeana: the successes in 2008
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 purposes and as a springboard for future governance.
The EDL Foundation
Present Shape of the EDL Foundation & its Governance
European Associations
National AssociationsNational Institutions
Regional InstitutionsIndividual museums, archives, libraries
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Decision
Channelling
Cross Domain
Foundation
Associates e.g.: ministries, sponsoring private partners etc
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National Digital Library
ACE
Film Archive X
Eurbica National Archive 1
MICHAELCENL
NL 1 NL 2 NL 3
Museum X
Archive X
National Archive 2
Film Archive 1
Film Archive 2
Film Archive 3
National Archive 3
Library X
Museum A Archive A Library A
FIAT
Television Archive 1
Television Archive 2
IASA
Sound Archive 1
Sound Archive 2
ICOM Europe
Museum 1Museum 2
ACE
Federation of European Publishers
Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C
A structure for EDL FoundationA structure for EDL Foundation
Board of Participantscurrent situation
Participants can be:
A. European Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders
B. National Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders
C. International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch (non legal entities) of this association
D. Relevant individual institutions (legal entities) for one of the domains,
E. Natural persons for the benefit of a relevant individual institution or association for one of the Domains, which is not a legal entity.
EDL Foundation Governance
EU Funding & Orientation Committee: Commission & 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 9 elected
Board of ParticipantsProposal
Participants can be:
A. European Associations (legal entities) of Content Holders
B. International Associations (legal entities) for the benefit of a European branch (non legal entities) of this association
C. 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)
Old sections B & D deleted:National Associations of Content Holders & Relevant
individual institutions
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
Commission Funding & Orientation Committee
Participants can be:A. Representatives of Member States that contribute to the EDLFB. Representatives of European Commission
o The Commission Funding & Orientation Committee will advise the EDL Foundation on strategic and budget issues
o The EDL Exec. Committee will inform Commission Funding & Orientation Committee on what is being done with the money and the strategy
o The Commission Funding & Orientation Committee will be chaired by the Commission
o The Commission Funding & Orientation Committee to convene around Member State Expert Group meetings
Next steps
o Draft any proposed changes middle February 2009o Executive Committee EDL Foundation agrees middle March 2009o Assess changes in statutes needed and costs middle April 2009o Ratify draft statutes at EDL Foundation Board meeting early June 2009o Instruct lawyers to change statutes June 2009o New statutes and structure in place Autumn 2009
Runningo Europeana Localo EFGo Athenao APEneto PrestoPrimeo STERNA
In negotiationo Europeana v1.0o EuropeanaConnecto BHLEuropeo EUScreeno EuropeanaTravelo MIMOo JUDEICA
The universe of Europeana Projects 2009
NL 1 NL 2 NL 3
EDL
National Digital Library
ACE
Film Archive X
Eurbica National Archive 1
MICHAELCENL
Museum X
Archive X
National Archive 2
Film Archive 1
Film Archive 2
Film Archive 3
National Archive 3
Library X
Museum A Archive A Library A
FIAT
Television Archive 1
Television Archive n
IASA
Sound Archive 1
Sound Archive n
ICOM Europe
Museum 1
Museum 2
The European Library
VideoActive
ATHENA
APEnet
EFGACE
Culture.fr
CulturaItalia
BAM
National Digital Libray Fnland
EuropeanaLocal
Trebleclef
PrestoPrime
IMPACT
BHLMIMO
EuropeanaConnect
Judaeica
EuropeanaTravel
EUScreen
STERNA
v1.0
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The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009
Europeana –financial backing for known projectsEuropeana –financial backing for known projects
Contributions to date:
euros
France 200000Netherlands 200000Italy 72500Finland 30000Lithuania 18805Germany 45000BnF 30000Total 596305
Need minimum 760,000, would like 1 million euros
image Europeana
Europeana´s Value PropositionAggregator of Interoperable European Content
Image business model blocks
Realising the value propositionRealising the value propositionBusiness Model ConceptBusiness Model Concept
Europeana.euEuropeana.eu the Mutual Incentive Business Model the Mutual Incentive Business Model
o Budgetary committment from 2011 onwards, against key of monetary distribution
o New funding help to match any new projects in 2009 or 2010o Encouragement of aggregation at national levels o Encouragement of content delivery from institutionso Funding of digitisation and preservation in institutionso Engagement in the public domain and copyright debates
Europeana wishes from Member StatesEuropeana wishes from Member States
o Builds networko Pushes towards aggregation o Maintains Prototype o Glue for projectso Works on sustainable financingo Works on licensing and public domain o 10 million items by 2010o Europeana v1.0 operational service June 2010o Surrogate modelo Reuse
Europeana v1.0Europeana v1.0
Questions?Questions?