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KE Emu European User Conference – 27th April 2012
Europeana Inside
Nick Poole, CEO, Collections Trust
KE Emu European User Conference – 27th April 2012
Collections Trust
• Our aim is to help people define and achieve excellence in providing collection-based services to their users
• People use our standards and guidance to reduce their expenditure, maintain accountability, mitigate risk, train staff and manage programmes
• Collections have to be part of the answer – as a community, we have to show how what we do delivers value in a way that users understand and want it
• We are all about supporting change and innovation – every new vision of what we can do starts with Collections Management
KE Emu European User Conference – 27th April 2012
Where is Europe?
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Where is Europe?
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European Cultural Programmes
• The European Commission invested €6bn in Cultural programmes between 2007-2013
• Key priorities:
– Promoting Intercultural dialogue– Supporting mobility of skills and Collections– Developing the Cultural & Creative Industries– Developing Digital Libraries– Supporting Digital Literacy
• http://ec.europa.eu/culture
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What is Europeana?
PROJECTS
NETWORKS API/CHANNELS
PORTAL
KE Emu European User Conference – 27th April 2012
KE Emu European User Conference – 27th April 2012
KE Emu European User Conference – 27th April 2012
Europeana key facts
• 23m records
• 1700 partners
• 6m unique visitors per annum + rising
• 25+ projects
• 33 countries
• UK is 8th biggest community (1.10m digital assets)
• http://www.europeana.eu
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Europeana projects
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Europeana projects
EUROPEANA AWARENESS
Promote awareness and use of Europeana in all European Member States, including press and promotional activity, and specific projects to engage with Wikipedia and other content communities
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Europeana projects
DIGITISING CONTEMPORARY ART
Digitising 26,921 artworks including paintings, sculptures, installations and time-based media
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Europeana projects
EUROPEANA 1914-18
Crowdsourced digitisation, working with the University of Oxford to run one-day events where the public bring photographs and artefacts into libraries and learn how to digitise, catalogue and publish them
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Europeana Inside facts & figures
• €3.8m Research & Development programme
• Developed in partnership with KE
• 28 partners incl. 10 leading software companies
• 12 European Member States, plus the US and South Africa
• 960,000 new records into Europeana
• Led by the Collections Trust
• http://www.europeanainside.eu
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The challenge
• We need Collections Management Systems to work harder to support the increasingly diverse needs of the museum
• Maximising the use of your online collections means delivering them on your site and serving them up for use via multiple channels/API
• The purpose of Europeana Inside is to build into your CMS the tools to manage how your collections are shared, with whom and under what conditions
• Putting the control of re-use in your hands
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Content providers Technical partners Aggregators
Museum
Museum
Library
Library
Archive
Archive
AV Archive
Collections Management System
Digital Asset Management System
Europeana Connection
Kits
Enriched metadata
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The benefits
• Connecting Collections Management and Collections publishing workflows
• Europeana, Wikipedia, BBC Digital Public Space, Google History
• Maximising the exposure of your online collections
• Limiting the risk through granular rights/permissions management
• Cleaning up your metadata for re-use
• Providing a channel for user-enhanced metadata to flow back to you
• Opening up opportunities for income generation
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The next challenge
• Once we have opened up Collections metadata for re-use through multiple channels, we need a way of tracking metrics & impact
• This is outside the scope of Europeana Inside, but will form the basis of a future project proposal
• Part of a broader discussion about metrics & KPI for online collections – moving from quantity to reach and engagement
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European Funding
• European funding presents a huge opportunity for UK museums wanting to make more active use of their Collections
• As long as you aren’t the coordinator, participating in European-funded projects is simple
• Participating opens up new networks & partnerships
• The European Commission is currently evaluating the possibility of diverting €m into enabling Digitisation in European museums
• We need to increase participation in EU funding by UK institutions
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Next steps
• Join the Europeana Network – http://pro.europeana.eu
• Find out about CT’s programmes – www.collectionslink.org.uk
• Information about EU funding for UK museums – www.culturefund.eu
• Get in touch with us to find out more about our other EU funded projects and opportunities for future partnerships!
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