Europeana Awareness Best Practice Network

Creating a buzz around Europeana

www.europeana.eu

Engage

publicise Europeana to users, policy makers, politicians and cultural heritage organisations in every Member State

promote its use by a broad public for a variety of purposes engage users via User Generated Content, digital stories and social networking

Facilitate

• Europeana Awareness will develop new partnerships with key sectors which are currently underexploited by Europeana:

– public libraries

– local archival groups

– broadcasters

– tourism

– open culture re-users

Distribute

• Commitment to open culture and re-use

• New distribution channels for Europeana content working with the tourism sector, education, family history services, broadcasters

Aggregate

• 30 million CH items now indexed by Europeana

• Build an aggregation ecosystem across Europe

• Improve metadata quality

• Represent diversity of our cultural heritage

• Local institutions are important – including Public

Libraries!

– Europeana Local, LoCloud

Build the trusted source

for cultural heritage.

Build the trusted source

for cultural heritage.

Licensing Framework

The Europeana Awareness Public Libraries Network

• Europeana is recruiting

leading public libraries across Europe to join the Europeana Public Libraries Network

• 76 public libraries from 31 countries are already members

• we would like to invite other public libraries to join us

Aim of the Europeana Awareness PL Network

• strengthen Europeana’s engagement with public libraries all over Europe, by developing productive partnerships which: – support public libraries in the digital era

– enable users to interact with the vast quantity of high quality, digital content available through Europeana as part of their own services;

– increase awareness of the Europeana initiative, among public library users and professionals

Benefits

• What’s in it for me?

• What’s in it for my library?

Benefits of joining the PL Network

• networking opportunities and easier cooperation with leading public libraries across Europe

• access to Europeana’s technical expertise and that of the wider Europeana network

– an open forum for experts across Europe: content providers, aggregators, technical, legal and strategic knowledge from the cultural heritage sector and creative industries

Activities

• Member libraries invited to pilot online tools, enabling users to access, use or contribute to Europeana – Widgets – APIs – Digital story telling and content collection platform

• Member libraries in Greece (and elsewhere) will take part in

the Europeana thematic campaigns such as 1914-1918 – helping collect User Generated Content – Memory Hubs

Together we can reach our

goal!

Contact

Rob Davies

MDR Partners

rob.davies@mdrpartners.com