Europeana Cloud Plenary, Athens, Mar 2014

Europeana Cloud importance for Europeana Strategy 2020

Europeana Cloud, Plenary meeting. March 18 2014, Athens

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

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The Europeana Network


One of the most powerful instruments we have developed together is the network of over 800 members, representing over 2300 institutions who contribute data, knowledge and technology. Together, we have accomplished a number of amazing things:

The diversity of the Content

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PD Hispana: A New Chart of Holland with the Entrances to the Scheld, &c [Mapa] 1802


We have developed an aggregation infrastructure that allowed over 2300 partners from every member state to contribute over 30 million objects on every topic imaginable in 36 languages from every member state, and beyond.

The Europeana Data Model

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Tim Berners Lee (UK)

Inventor WWW


We have been able to develop a shared data model that is future proof (LOD etc.). <Add stuff on the model, pisa meeting, currently 9 million EDM records (?) everything available through SPARQL end node, ...> ‘The coordination and standardisation of a shared data model that is fit for the web of the future’

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Data interoperability


And all this was supported by huge amounts of work on the data model and standardisation of data

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Europeana Licensing Framework


Europeana Cloud

CC0 Public Domain Mark‘The largest single dedication of cultural data to the Public Domain’*

*Jonathan Gray, the Guardian


We have been able to agree on a very far-reaching licensing infrastructure that makes the metadata available for everyone to use and re-use. Also mention public domain mark. <Picture Paul, ...?>

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Europeana1914-1918.eu


12 countries, 10.000 stories

Leadership

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These are things we have done so well that they have become export products of Europe (DPLA, Korea, Brasil, ...). Mention BBC MoU.

The portal www.europeana.eu is the most visible expression of this united Europe.

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The most visible aspect of all is of course the portal. If you like, this was the visual inspiration. but it had and has many flaws, not least how can one portal satisfy all the needs of all the different types of users for the material gathered. Will it work for the researcher in the digital humanities, does it provide the educational pathway for the schoolchild, can I find stuff about my town, or the town I am visiting. Even if the portal can do all of this, are we able to service it to comprehend the changing needs of the users, to make it work for each and every person? We thought that was not the Why of Europeana, so we have embarked on the second phase:

Raw Data

Where’s the museum that

has the drawing of

Rembrandt ‘s son?

Need some curriculum ready

stuff for my lesson on 1989

Would like to show in my app all the music

scores that are available for free


But we dont think we can do this via a single portal that works for everyone. We are not a search engine, we are trying to show the breadth and depth of what our cultural ins;tu;ons have but to do this according to the level of knowledge, depth, breadth that the user is looking for requires us to be experts in primary, secondary educa;ons, in media driven art, in genealogy, in cultural tourism, in specific hobbies, in different areas of research. The user also has a prolifera;on of ways to get to things -‐ we think we should be placing the right data in the right place.

16Public Domain RijksmuseumTuesday, 18 March 2014Painted in 1628By rembrandt aged 22oil on canvas, 22.6 * 18.7 cmBusiness cardCourtesy of the Rijksmuseum: 4500 * 4500 pixels jpg (TIFF available)

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So how does that boil down for our strategy 2015-2020?

Connecting Europe Facility


http://ec.europa.eu/We will become part of infrastructure. This is good, because culture is now seen to underpin the knowledge economy.However, there are a few things we need to do and overcome, not least satisfying user need

Intersection of culture and technology to bring Europe’s vast wealth of cultural heritage to the world

Culture transforms lives

Tuesday, 18 March 2014We believe culture transforms lives <JC/JP>

We’re here to move things forward. We are a one of kind organisa;on. SiEng at the intersec;on of culture and technology we are passionate about bringing Europe’s vast wealth of cultural heritage to the world. To make it shareable – available at the touch of buHon, unlocked from our museums and galleries. To make it usable – to build with and build on. For change. For ideas. For progress. And to make it reliable. Easy to use and always 100% trustworthy.

We call it Cultural Innova;on. We’re restless for it. Determined to drive it. Proud to use European culture to improve the status quo of society. And to transform lives across the planet with this extraordinary giR

3 impacts:1.Makes culture available for everyone, 2.Supports economic growth,3.Connects Europe




3 priorities:

1.Shareable - available at the touch of a button, unlocked

2.Usable - to build with and on, for ideas, change, progress

3.Reliable - Easy to use, 100% trustworthy




Europeana is about Cultural Innovation and Europeana Cloud sits at the core of it’s strategy

Tuesday, 18 March 2014This was all made possible by youNetwork to movement

<add introduction why we need a cloud/digital public space


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Therefore, we pull in the digitally available material of our cultural heritage ins;tu;ons and enable it to work together so that it can be pushed or pulled out by communi;es wan;ng to view, reuse, research and discover our cultural heritage.

Users can find this material in places they already use, Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, thema;c sites, educa;onal Apps, tourism apps, the list can be endless and it is scaleable.

Why do we do this? What impacts have we had? 29 million objects, from 2300 providers, via 373 aggregators, we have a data model that is based on Linked Open Data, now beginning to work in prac;se as well theory and we have 770 applica;ons for our API with some great examples of ‘reuse’ star;ng. Because we have a great network, interoperable data, a licensing framework, some great examples of user engagement

Europeana Cloud

Distributors

Users

Institutions

Aggregators


We want to reposition the brand of Europeana as a facilitator for the Cultural and Creative Industries

Channel Development:

Research;Sounds; Fashion;......


Europeana Creative

ChallengesBusiness Lounge Format,

Apps4europe


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Europeana Cloud Plenary, Athens, Mar 2014

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