EuropeanaConnect

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Contents of presentation

• Background: Europeana and related projects

• What is EuropeanaConnect

• Objectives

• Partners

• Specific content to be contributed to Europeana

• Structure

• Achievements

• Challenges/next steps

Europeana

Europeana: the vision

‘A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European cultural heritage.’European Parliament, 27 September 2007

‘A unique resource for Europe's distributed cultural heritage… ensuring a common access to Europe's libraries, archives and museums.’

Horst Forster, Former Director, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Information Society Directorate, European Commission

www.europeana.eu: Content

•7 million items are now accessible

• 4 million images: photos, paintings, drawings, postcards, posters

• 2.5 million texts: books, newspapers, manuscripts, letters

• 92,000 videos: film, documentary, TV broadcasts, public information

• 24,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings

Europeana is governed by the Europeana Foundation and supported by CENL

ATHENAAccess to Cultural Heritage

Networks across Europe

APEnetArchives Portal Europe

BHL-EuropeBiodiversity Heritage

Libraries Europe

EUscreen

EFGEuropean

Film Gateway

EuropeanaLocal

EuropeanaTravel

MIMOMusical Instruments

Museums Online

JudaicaEuropeana

EuropeanaRegia

CARAREConnecting Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana

HOPEHeritage of People’sEurope

Europeana Group of Projects

ArrowPrestoPRIME

Europeana v1.0

EuropeanaConnectASSETS

Europeana

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What is EuropeanaConnect ?

• “Best Practice Network”

• Co-funded by EC in the eContentplus programme

• Duration May 2009 – October 2011 (= 2,5 years)

• 30 project partners from 14 countries

• Coordinated by Austrian National Library

• ~ 900 Person Months total labour effort

• Total budget: 5.625.000 Euro

• 80 % EU funding: 4.500.000 Euro

Key Objectives of EuropeanaConnect

1. Provide a critical mass of audio content to Europeana and implement an audio-enabling infrastructure

2. Build the Semantic Layer for Europeana

3. Facilitate multilingual access to Europeana

4. Develop novel access channels to Europeana (like mobile access)

5. Provide tools and methodologies for user-driven development and for testing and evaluation

6. Build value-added services (like e-Books-on-Demand)

7. Implement key infrastructure components (like OAI-PMH infrastructure)

8. Build the Europeana Licensing Framework

9. Enable stronger and wider collaborative networking

Partner Institutions• Europeana Foundation, The Hague

• 8 Libraries:

• Austrian National Library (Coordinator)

• Royal Library of Denmark• National Library of Luxembourg• National Library of the Netherlands• Innsbruck University Library• State- and University Library

Göttingen• German National Library• National Library of Portugal

• 10 Universities and Academies of Sciences:

• Humboldt University Berlin• University of Vienna• Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon• Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam• National Technical University of

Athens• University of Amsterdam • University of Padua• Polish Academy of Sciences• Hungarian Academy of Sciences• Slovenian Academy of Sciences

Partner Institutions

• 10 Universities and Academies of Sciences:

• Humboldt University Berlin• University of Vienna• Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon• Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam• National Technical University of

Athens• University of Amsterdam • University of Padua• Polish Academy of Sciences• Hungarian Academy of Sciences• Slovenian Academy of Sciences

• 1 Broadcast Company:• RBB – Rundfunk Berlin-

Brandenburg

• 1 Publishing House:• Amsterdam University Press

• 1 Institute for Literature:• Institute of Lithuanian Literature

and Folklore, Vilnius

• 1 Consultant Company:• Eremo s.r.l., Cupramontana

Specific content to be contributed to Europeana

• EuropeanaConnect will add a critical mass of audio content to Europeana

• Implement an audio-aggregation infrastructure to harvest audio from hundreds of audio archives

• Around 200.000 music tracks will be added to Europeana

Work Structure

Work Package 1:Creating the Europeana Semantic Layer

WP Lead: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE

• Semantic Data Layer Creation

• Aligning the Semantic Data

• Workflow Automation

• Functional Specifications for Semantics Based Operations

• Testing and Evaluation

• Networking and Clustering Activities

Work Package 2: Multilingual Access to Content

WP Lead: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE

• User studies and evaluation of multilingual resources use

• Europeana Language Resources Repository

• Tools for multilingual mapping of controlled vocabularies and subject metadata

• Translation modules for Europeana

• Testing and evaluation of translation modules

• Integration with Europeana retrieval framework

• Dissemination & Exchange of multilingual access strategies for digital libraries

Work Package 3: User Driven Development and New Access Channels

WP Lead: The Royal Library, DK

• Log analysis for future user-driven development

• Methodologies and tools for user involvement

• Spatio-temporal access channels for Europeana

• Mobile Access Channels for Europeana

Work Package 4:Europeana Licensing Framework

WP Lead: National Library of Luxembourg, LU

• Recommendations for a core Europeana Licensing Framework and validation thereof

• Creating tools for the Europeana Licensing Framework

• Evaluation and testing of the tools and proof of concept

• Deployment in Europeana

Work Package 5: Enabling and Integrating Services for Europeana

WP Lead: Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, AT

• Europeana Metadata Registry• Europeana Service Registry• Europeana OAI-PMH Management Infrastructure• Europeana Resolution Discovery Service for Persistent Identifiers• Geographical Information Services• Multimedia Annotation Services• “eBooks on Demand” (EOD) Service• User Testing, Evaluation and Assessment of the Services• Cross-project Networking and Clustering

Work Package 6:Audio Aggregation

WP Lead: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, DE

• Audio content aggregation, themes coordination

• Extension of the network to include new content providers

• Metadata harmonisation and data enrichment

• Content management tools, IPR

• Training activities and support

• Pilots, Testing & Evaluation

Work Package 7:Dissemination and Concertation

WP Lead: EREMO S.R.L., IT

• Dissemination of project results

• Dissemination tools (website, project presentation, posters, fact sheet, press releases, etc.)

• Concertation with Europeana v1.0

• Concertation with EU activities

Work Package 8: Project Management

WP Lead: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, AT

• Financial coordination

• Internal consortium management and coordination

• Overall monitoring

• Liaison with the Commission

• Evaluation and Quality control

Achievements – first year

Adding music audio to Europeana

• Over 54,000 music audio and related items from more than 100 collections from 26 archives in 16 countries delivered to Europeana

• New audio content will follow with the next harvesting of the DISMARC/EuropeanaConnect Audio Aggregation Platform which delivers the content to Europeana

• Set of tools for content management developed• Enable content owners to manage their data online and allow users to

add their own comments about particular pieces of music

Building the Europeana Semantic Layer

• Survey of controlled and structured vocabularies among Europeana data providers carried out

• Selected vocabularies successfully migrated to SKOS

• Specification of semantic functionality created and checked with selected expert users

• Substantial contribution made to the Europeana Data Model (EDM), assisting with its specification and stabilisation

Multilingual Access to Europeana

• Report on user preferences and information retrieval scenarios for multilingual access in Europeana produced

• Specification for the Europeana language resources repository developed

• Multilingual mapping of controlled vocabularies has begun with an exploration of available resources

Understanding User Needs / New Access Channels

• Development of a methodology for understanding what users do when they visit Europeana (aimed to improve their experience)

• Provision of Log-file analysis and development of a personas catalogue as a tool for user evaluation

• Development of a protoype of a spatio-temporal interface to enable users to explore Europeana by time and location

• Development of a generic Europeana mobile client, adapting to the user‘s mobile device

Europeana Licensing Framework

• Key activity: clarifying the legal situation and suggesting licenses to content providers

• Europeana Public Domain Charter: http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/publications

• Provision of a draft Data Provider Agreement and Data Aggregator Agreement

• Governs the relationships between Europeana and its partners

• “Public Domain Helper tools” developed• Define decision trees to translate the law into a tool to decide if a work

is in the public domain or not

Integrating software and services in Europeana

• Geographical Information Services (GIS) suite to enrich Europeana metadata and content with explicit geographical metadata and references

• Prototypes and showcases of both tools available.

• Multimedia Annotation Services to provide Europeana with annotation capabilities for audio and video content, images and maps.

• eBook-on-Demand Service (EoD) to allow automated and generic transfer of eBooks created within EoD network to Europeana and to enable the ordering of eBooks-on-Demand

How to obtain information on EuropeanaConnect

• Project web site: www.europeanaconnect.eu

• Dissemination resources and project results:http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-and-resources.php

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