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Europeana.eu: cultural collaboration across borders and domains

Europeana.eu: cultural collaboration across borders and domains. Jon Purday Senior Communications Advisor, Europeana The 12th Annual International Conference «EVA 2009 Moscow». What is Europeana.eu ?. Prototype portal launched in November 2008

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Europeana.eu: cultural collaboration across borders and domains

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  1. Europeana.eu: cultural collaboration across borders and domains Jon Purday Senior Communications Advisor, Europeana The 12th Annual International Conference «EVA 2009 Moscow»

  2. What is Europeana.eu ? • Prototype portal launched in November 2008 • Public access point for European cultural and scientific heritage • Links users to content digitised by libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual collections • Content from all 27 European Union Member States • Multilingual interface in 26 languages • Material from over 1,000 content providers

  3. What’s in the Europeana prototype ? • Current contents: 4.5 million items • 3,500,000 images: paintings, drawings, postcards, posters, photos, pictures of museum objects • 935,000 texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts, letters • 115,000 videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts, public information films • 13,000 sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings

  4. Securing collaboration provider involvement political endorsement user engagement

  5. Stakeholder collaboration at the top level • EDL Foundation’s Board of Participants from the cutural heritage and research associations: • ACE: Association Cinémathèques Européennes • CENL: Conference of European National Librarians • CERL: Consortium of European Research Libraries • EMF: European Museum Forum • EURBICA: European Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives • FIAT: International Federation of Television Archives • IASA: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives • ICOM Europe: International Council of Museums, Europe • LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche • MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

  6. Partner collaboration at the site-building level The Europeana partner network • 150+ partners from museums, libraries, archives, audiovisual collections, software developers, university research • Representatives from every Member State • Promotes technology and knowledge transfer across the sectors and between Member States • Shares common standards and best practice • Technical experts lead work groups developing use cases, data models, components etc. • Network translates all parts of the interface into 26 languages

  7. Aggregators promote collaboration Museum A Archive A Library A Library X National Digital Library Film Archive 1 Film Archive 2 Film Archive 3 Archive X National aggregator ACE Museum X Museum 1 ICOM Europe Museum 2 CENL MICHAEL Eurbica National Archive 1 EU Screen National Library 1 NL 2 NL 3 National Archive 2 FIAT National Archive 3 Television Archive 1 Television Archive 2

  8. BHLEurope EuropeanaLocal STERNA Judaica EuropeanFilmGateway Europeana Connect Europeana v1.0 MIMO Video Active EUScreen EuropeanaTravel Archives Portal Europe [APEnet] Athena Collaboration and the growth of Europeana Europeana.eu PrestoPrime Arrow

  9. Content providers to Europeana Major new release in 2010 will give access to 10 million items from: • Athena: museum objects • Archives Portal Europe [APEnet]: national archives • Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL Europe]: texts and taxonomies • European Film Gateway: film, scripts, posters, stills • Europeana Connect: sound recordings • Europeana Travel: exploration, tourism and cartography • Europeana Local: regional libraries and museums • EU Screen: TV broadcasts • Judaica Europeana: documentation of Jewish life in Europe’s cities • Museum of Musical Instruments Online: images and audiovisual of instruments Information about all the projects contributing to Europeana: http://group.europeana.eu

  10. Danube release Rhine release

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  15. Thank you jonathan.purday@bl.uk www.europeana.eu

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