Knowledge is the Common Property of Mankind, Oslo, 30 Nov 2013

Knowledge is the common property of mankind:

#AllezCulture: Creating a new Commons

30 November 2013Twitter: @JilCos

Wednesday, 4 December 2013I think we are creating a new digital commons, a place where culture can be found in digitised form, for knowledge, for play, for reuse, openly available to everyone, respecting of the rights of the creators.

Parliament and MS behind europeana connects culture, culture available for everyoneRobert SchumannShould not underestimate the importance of culture, how it makes us view the world, how it helps understand each other and hence its effects on society and cohesion. It is therefore important that culture can be available to all.

I therefore want to talk about the vision, Europeana as a catalyst for change, the need for further reform, some ideas on how we are going to get there i.e what can we do?

Vision:

ʻThe Union shall respect its cultural and linguistic diversity, and shall ensure that Europeʼs cultural heritage is safeguarded and enhancedʼ- Article 3 Lisbon Treaty

Wednesday, 4 December 2013Europeana was born as a political vision to create social and economical capital

Vision:

Openly accessible digital cultural heritage will foster the exchange of ideas and knowledge, lead to a better mutual understanding of our cultural

diversity and support a thriving knowledge economy in Europe

-Council of Europe 2008-

Wednesday, 4 December 2013 It sort to create a new enlightenment, new republic of letters

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www.dreams.europeana.eu

Wednesday, 4 December 2013locked down in building, hard to discover, hand it over, europeʼs fabulously rich culture, no access to important culture resources, to work, to play, to reuse, hand over to the people, digitally available but disconnected, unlock, more widely available, what stuff to be used, new things based on We have a much more enlightened society due to the digital shift we need to make sure that everyone gets to see and use our cultural heritage

Vision/Mission EuropeanaVision: we believe that openly accessible digital cultural heritage, fostering the exchange of ideas and knowledge, leads to a better mutual understanding of our cultural diversity and contributes to a thriving knowledge economy for Europe

Mission: Europeana is a cultural heritage sector catalyst for change. Together with the network of Libraries, Museums, Archives, Audio Visual Collections and Creative Industries we work to create new ways for people to engage with their cultural history for work, learning or pleasure.

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Wednesday, 4 December 2013From Europeanaʼs point of view it starts with our vision and mission statements

A Catalyst for ChangeWhat is Europeana, What impacts has it had?

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Europeana is not the standalone portal you see here. And it is not really about technology that is just the enabler


It is an ecosystem of contributors of cultural heritage data, researchers and technologists who can manipulate and enrich that data, a network of professionals who create policy for the use and reuse of the data and recently a growing group of creatives, developers and entrepreneurs who will exploit that data, under open, fair and agreed conditions.

It has developed repositories of metadata and content from actually 2300 museums, libraries, archives and audio visual institutions from all European Union & EFTA countries. This data is standardised, harmonised, multilingual, rights labelled and made interoperable. And is now beginning to be used in classrooms, in augmented reality tourism, in serious games, etc. It is an underlying resource to be further distributed and exploited. It is already in Commission speak a “digital service infrastructure” and is on the cusp of helping to create new things from old clothes. i.e fuel for economic growthFundamentally it is a set of people who believe in the same thing - making culture available to all and have agreed to try to do this under a set of common principles.

Mutuality

Access

Attribution

ConsistencyEngagement

European Cultural Commons Principles

Wednesday, 4 December 2013All of which is based on some shared principles, that are in many ways similar to those of the Age of Enlightenment and certainly reflect the concept that Knowledge is the common property of mankind.

via a series of workshops with policy makers and the network we have arrived at the following principles for our European Cultural CommonsMutuality - Create a community, based on the principles of achieving mutual benefit, acting in good faith and presuming it on behalf of othersAccess - Provide a set of high-quality re-usable content, tools and services to enable creativity and innovation Attribution - Commit to the principle of respecting rights through acknowledgement and attributionConsistency - Build on the existing values and principles of our sectorEngagement - Commit, as members of the community proactively to use the commons and to contribute to it

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Wednesday, 4 December 2013This is the business process of Europeana. It pulls cultural stuff in, it makes that stuff work together and it pushes stuff and information out

And it aims to have impact in 3 areas

Europeana supports economic growth: Creative Industries in Europe are growing fast (estimated 7% per annum) and they need fuel.

Europeana provides that.

To date 770 businesses, entrepreneurs, educational & cultural organisations are re-using our data in websites, apps and games.


Actually one of the more selfish reasons why many in this audience might consider supporting our campaign for funding #allezculture - is the ability to get your hands on the stuff that Europeana brings together and makes sure that you know if you can reuse it or not. Mckinsey

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Impact 1: Europeana Supports Economic Growth


We have some great examples in the API being reused by the memory institutions themselves to take back content that is about their countries heritage, that belongs or contributes to their collections, Or its reuse in education such as this site of the national science museums which is powered by Europeana or our wonderful Open Culture App which came out of Glimworm, our next speaker, developing Muse in a Europeana Hackathon and launching it as the Rijksmuseum reopened physically being able to apply the same basic software and idea to a wider set of Europeana data.

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Europeana connects Europe:


To our second impact: The importance of our second impact harks back to Robert Schumanʼs statement.

Bringing together our shared cultural heritage, requires that we work together, we collaborate as museums, libraries, archives, audio visual archives. But we need to engage citizens in our heritage, to encourage them understand its place in our lives today, to celebrate its richness and diversity and to do this Europeana has launched a series of events across Europe, raising awareness of Europeana and ability to participate in culture. Two of the better known are: Europeana 1914-1918 and Europeana 1989

Impact 2Europeana connects Europe: open, democratised access to culture helps all communities across Europe to understand the past and to appreciate cross-cultural differences.

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Europeana makes Europe’s culture available for everyone:

30 million records under a Creative Commons Zero public domain dedication (CC0) means Europe’s heritage becomes available for re-use for everyone, young and old


This is partly about creating the conditions so that data can be seen and reused – hence the importance of all contributing cultural heritage institutions agreeing to deliver their metadata under CC0

We are now starting to extend our licensing framework to agree on common conditions of access to digital content which is why we have a large scale rights labeling of the content campaign going on now and why Europeana plays a role in the copyright discussions within the EU and would like better solutions to cross border access particularly for AV material.

Impact 3: Europeana makes Europe’s Culture available for everyone

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Wednesday, 4 December 2013It is about ensuring as stated in our public domain charter that things that were in the public domain in analogue form remain in the public domain in digital formIt is about standardising the data so that it can be redistributed.

This in my view, is the long term impact of Europeana. The behind the scenes work that makes the data talk to each other, that ensures it work in a machine readable form so that developers can take the data and create new things with it. But it is also about making culture work online, showing data in context to specific interest groups, making sure that it is found on Wikipedia, via Google

This is why sites such as Europeana Fashion are so important. By standardising the data it can be distributed, culture can be made available to everyone, in a democratic manner via media they use. Europeana Fashion engages an audience of girls with museums and archives and to become wikipedians contributing to the massive encyclopedia in ways they have not done to date.


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What do people want?

Wednesday, 4 December 2013The people in Cultural Heritage InstitutionsIn the Creative Industries, You, Me, Our kids, or Grandparents

Wednesday, 4 December 2013You know this....End users want ease of access - in their subject area, curated to their needs, to be able to download, blog, find the picture, piece of music, share with others, find out about where they are going or where they are, be inspired - to learn.....they start mostly at a search engine, or via Wikipedia

What do we still need to solve to achieve this?

Shift from portal to platform

Copyright for the web

Multilinguality

Quality of data


1. Shift from Portal to Platform

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Wednesday, 4 December 2013While a portal can present its aggregated content in a way that invites exploration, the experience is always constrained pre-determined by a set of design decisions about what is necessary, relevant and useful. Portal to platform: we will shift our focus from inviting individuals to explore their heritage on the europeana.eu portal, to developing a community of professional organisations who re-use the data, content, knowledge and technology that Europeana and its partners make available for them. Will the portal still exist? Yes, we will still have a service that can be used as a search interface for our collective memory. But it will be used more by professionals who are searching for re-usable data and content than by individuals searching for culture. Development, maintenance and marketing of the search portal will take no more than 20% of our efforts. 80% of our efforts will be spent on developing the platform and instruments of re-use such as APIs, LOD, etc.

2. Copyright for the web

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2. All Public Domain material freely available for re-use

Public Domain RijksmuseumWednesday, 4 December 2013Continue to Work with our data providers and other stakeholders to ensure that all digitised Public Domain material is freely available for re-use without any restrictions. In order to achieve this goal the principles established by the Europeana Public Domain Charter and the New Renaissance report should be applied to all publicly funded digitisation projects in Europe.

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2. Develop ‘open, unless’ policies for public material (without 3rd party rights) to allow re-use

Wednesday, 4 December 2013Work with our data providers on promoting ʻopen unlessʼ policies in the cultural heritage sector that ensure that digital content that is not subject to third party rights is made available under conditions that allow re-use.

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2. Ensure that new EU copyright framework allows easy non-commercial and cross border access

Wednesday, 4 December 2013Work with our data providers on ensuring that the interests of publicly accessible libraries archives and museums and their users are properly represented on the European level during the upcoming review of the EU copyright framework. Specifically this means that an updated copyright directive needs to contain provisions that allow publicly accessible libraries archives and museums to make available works in their collection for non commercial purposes.

3. Multilinguality: promote solutions so that you can discover my culture in your language

25CC-BY-NC Nothrills Wednesday, 4 December 2013Keep pushing for good long term and public solutions to deal with multilingual issues.

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4. Improve the quality of access: direct unbroken links to decent quality images

26CC-BY-NC-ND Rossco Wednesday, 4 December 2013










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Wednesday, 4 December 2013Meta-data exceeds minimum requirements and the titles are in two languages increasing discoverability.

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Wednesday, 4 December 2013No rights label, no description, no date, no creator, no thumbnails, etc.

10,928 items in collection National Library of Wales

3,298 views3,298 click-throughs

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12,658 items in collection139 views

29 click-throughs

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Strategic Plan 2020What will we do?


Agenda for change

Wednesday, 4 December 2013ʻEuropeana needs to continue to play a catalysing role in solving the barriers to access. We will keep pushing to make all PD material freely available for re-use, for ʻopen unlessʼ policies for content not subject to 3rd party rights, finding multilingual solutions and to create an infrastructure that allows others to curate, to interpret the material in places the user uses. We will move from portal to platform.ʼ

Europeana Research

Europeana.euEuropeana Labs

Europeana Fashion

Europeana Platform

The Vision

Museum

Museum

AV Collection

Museum

Archive

Library

Library

Archive

Europeana1914-18


So this is the first dream, we hope to have up and running within the next 18 months. Where cultural content institutions place their material to be enriched and where all types of uses, professional, gamer or fashionista can view their own heritage in ways they want and contribute back. So memory institutions reach a wide and varied set of users, by working together on solving issues and making use of the multiplier effects

We are at the forefront of the Digital Shift. Europe has done amazing things funding Europeana and preparing its cultural heritage so that it might be fuel for the future, but it is also continuing the tradition under which the union was begun: to connect Europe and democratise access to our common heritage. #AllezCulture!

Europeana Research

Europeana.euEuropeana Labs

Europeana Fashion

Europeana Platform

The Vision

Museum

Museum

AV Collection

Museum

Archive

Library

Library

Archive

Europeana1914-18


So this is the first dream, we hope to have up and running within the next 18 months. Where cultural content institutions place their material to be enriched and where all types of uses, professional, gamer or fashionista can view their own heritage in ways they want and contribute back. So memory institutions reach a wide and varied set of users, by working together on solving issues and making use of the multiplier effects

We are at the forefront of the Digital Shift. Europe has done amazing things funding Europeana and preparing its cultural heritage so that it might be fuel for the future, but it is also continuing the tradition under which the union was begun: to connect Europe and democratise access to our common heritage. #AllezCulture!

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Europeana Labs

Natural History Game

Wednesday, 4 December 2013accessible via our new site to be launched in 2014 - Europeana Labs - a place for Developers, Creatives Media Artists, connected into real physical labs such as the schools one.

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For Creatives

Wednesday, 4 December 2013making the material available for the creatives

36CC-By-SA Sigfrid Lundberg (#hack4europe National Library Austria)

For people

Tools to build specific interest channels

CC-By-SA Sebastiaan ter Burg (Editathon Utrecht)Wednesday, 4 December 2013with tools on the platform so that people can build their own versions of culture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sigfridlundberg/












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with the Europeana Network


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Wednesday, 4 December 2013So that our past enlightners become part of our future knowledge

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Spinoza


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Voltaire


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Voltaire

Newton


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“Instead of policy-makers deciding on what ‘European heritage’ is, the Europeana project allows its users to research European history themselves, create new transnational links between cultures, look at historic events from different national angles, and put history in new contexts.” Joris Pekel


#AllezCulture!

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Twi3er: JilCos following EuropeanaEU

#AllezC

ulture

“Instead of policy-makers deciding on what ‘European heritage’ is, the Europeana project allows its users to research European history themselves, create new transnational links between cultures, look at historic events from different national angles, and put history in new contexts.” Joris Pekel


#AllezCulture!

Knowledge is the Common Property of Mankind, Oslo, 30 Nov 2013

Education

cultural diversity

cultural heritage data

cultural stuff

europes cultural heritage

cultural history

culture available

new commons

new digital commons