Europeana and Open Cultural Heritage

Data

Georgia.angelaki@kb.nlOKCon 1st July 2011

What is Europeana?

“A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European cultural heritage.”

European Parliament, 27 September 2007

2011

91 direct providers and aggregatorsmore than 1500 individual institutions19+m items

CC-BY-NC(like)

CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication

Why?

Users:Trusted sourceEase of use

Re-use

In my workflow

Cultural Institutions:VisibilityServices Revenue

Politicians:Inclusion Education Leadership

Economic growth

Market:Straightforward route to content

Access to the networkPremium servicesBrand Association

Why drop NC and BY?• Most of the metadata is factual information

• Most has been created with taxpayers’ money and everyone should have the right to use it

• It is very difficult to define the boundaries of NC

• There is much more to gain by giving up something

• Attribution is very hard to enforce especially when a long chain of intermediaries are involved

• We believe in a standardised license that will allow a minimum threshold for re-use

The Rewards• Increased data use & visibility drives traffic to content

holder’s site.

• Providers can still commercially exploit own metadata.

• Europeana LOD helps populate linked data cloud with trusted, quality resource.

• Enhances context of information through increased data interlinking.

• Enriched data back to provider, for own applications & users.

• Shows cultural heritage organisations at vanguard of innovation & stimulating digital research. Leads to funding

• Reinforces relevance of their cultural heritage to new generations.

The Risks• Loss of control over the channels of access and of

authority

• Loss of potential income

• Loss of reputation

• Loss of branding

• Loss of context and of the control over the integrity of the data

• Additional work required

…workshop participants acknowledged that rather than real risks, these are fears related to change…

The Process• Workshops on risks and rewards of open licenses –

(September 2010-December 2010)

• Workshops and presentations (APENET, ATHENA, EFG, EUSCREEN)

• Workshop with directors of museums, libraries, archives and av on the business models of open data

• Online consultation with the network between December 2010 and January 2011

• Second round of consultation with whole network in May

• 4 Hackathons in June (Barcelona, Poznan, London, Stockholm)

• LOD pilot

• Paper commissioned on the compatibility of CC0 with German jurisdiction

• Dedicated website about open data and our new agreement

Metadata related to the digitised objects produced by the cultural institutions

should be widely and freely available for re-use.

Key recommendations, p5

Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot

• 9 direct providers representing

• 300 libraries, museums, archives and av collections

• 16 countries

• 3,5 m records

• Pilot went live in June

• Proof that nothing bad will happen

• It’s a pilot- it’s still subject to change

• We are in the process of clearing CC0 for this data

• Check it out: Data.europeana.eu

Digital Agenda Day API Hackathons

Hack4Europe!

•About 85 developers participated•With a majority being independent developers or representing SMEs

•Creating 48 prototypes•Why: to showcase the social and commercial value of open cultural data

•With 14 winners in the categories and local special awards

Winner of the Commercial Potential Award: Art4Europe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PEz2d7OLE

Winner of the Innovation Award: TimeMash

Winner of the Audience Award: TimeBook

Where are we now?

My organization will sign the new DEA (N=104):

Overall response clearly positive

My organization will sign the new DEA (libraries N=51)

Libraries

Museums

My organization will sign the new DEA (museums N=14)

New CC0 agreement will take effect from September onwards

More activities…

• LOD animation

• Individual meetings with providers

• Lots of workshops

• Operationalise some of the apps

• Paper on the Business Models of Open Data for the Cultural Heritage Sector

• Advocacy towards politicians: ie all EU-funded projects have to make their data available under open licenses and publicly funded digitisation should deliver CC0 metadata

http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/newagreement

Georgia.angelaki@kb.nl

THANK YOU!