Background: Europeana and related projects

Background: Europeana and related projects

• Background: Europeana and related projects

• What is EuropeanaConnect

• Objectives

• Partners

• Specific content to be contributed to Europeana

• Structure

• Achievements

• Challenges/next steps

Europeana

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

• ‘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

7 million items are now accessible

• 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

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“Best Practice Network”

• “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

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

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

• Build the Semantic Layer for Europeana

• Facilitate multilingual access to Europeana

• Develop novel access channels to Europeana (like mobile access)

• Provide tools and methodologies for user-driven development and for testing and evaluation

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

• Implement key infrastructure components (like OAI-PMH infrastructure)

• Build the Europeana Licensing Framework

• Enable stronger and wider collaborative networking

• 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

WP Lead: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE

• 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

WP Lead: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE

• 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

WP Lead: The Royal Library, DK

• 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

WP Lead: National Library of Luxembourg, LU

• 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

WP Lead: Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, AT

• 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

WP Lead: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, DE

• 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

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

• 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

WP Lead: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, AT

• WP Lead: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, AT

• Financial coordination

• Internal consortium management and coordination

• Overall monitoring

• Liaison with the Commission

• Evaluation and Quality control

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

• Project web site: www.europeanaconnect.eu

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

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