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EDL Foundation and Europeana. Deuxi ė me Atelier national MinervaEC, Bruxelles, 19 Septembre 2008.
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EDL Foundation and Europeana Deuxiėme Atelier national MinervaEC, Bruxelles, 19 Septembre 2008
“A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. “ Europeana.eu –The Vision European Union Communiqué August 2006
Open access to the digitised objects of European cultural institutions Showing the result of the digitisation efforts Cross multilingual search our cultural heritage at a single place Across cultural domains and across European countries General public - User centered Web & Digital library technology Europeana.eu –The Vision
Thematic Network across 4 domains: Museums, Libraries, Archives and Audiovisual Collections To establish trust between the institutions To create a coalition of the willing To create the organisational structure for a European Digital Library To tackle domain level interoperability issues (standards) To propose a practical implementation of the European Digital Library (a user defined prototype) EuropeanaNet (EDLnet) The EDL Foundation …
Purpose: • to provide cross-domain access to Europe’s cultural heritage. So the Foundation will: • facilitate formal agreement across Museums, Archives, Audiovisual collections and Libraries on how to cooperate in the delivery and sustainability of a joint portal. • provide a legal framework for use by the EU for funding purposes and as a springboard for future governance.
EDL Foundation Structure Museum A Archive A Library A Library X Culture.fr CulturaItalia BAM CIMEC etc…… National Digital Library Film Archive 1 Film Archive 2 Film Archive 3 Archive X ACE EFG ACE Film Archive X EDL EuropeanaLocal Museum X Museum 1 ICOM Europe Museum 2 ATHENA MICHAEL The European Library CENL APEnet Eurbica National Archive 1 NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 National Archive 2 IASA VideoActive FIAT National Archive 3 Sound Archive 1 Sound Archive n Television Archive 1 Television Archive n
EDL Foundation Board of Participants Executive Board Executive Director Jill Cousins
Business Model andSustainability: • Project funded til 2011 • Issue of matching funds and missing overhead €1m to find before end of 2008, for proposals to create a sustainable Europeana can go ahead. • From 2011 Mixed funding: • Commission and Member States / Agency or Grant Operation
Archives • Austrian State Archives • European Archive • European Branch of ICA Direcção-Geral de Arquivos • Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg • National Archives of Finland • Federal Archives of Germany • National Archives of Sweden • National Archives of the Netherlands • National Archive of France • International Institute for Social History • Audio-visual collections • International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives • Association des Cinémathèques Européennes • International Federation of Television Archives • European Broadcasting Union • Institut national de l'audiovisuel • Cross-domain associations • Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK • Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg • ABM-utvikling, Norway • RUNAS, the Danish Archives, Libraries and Museums • MICHAEL AISBL • Arbeitsgruppe europäischen Angelegenheiten Bibliotheken,Archive Museen • ABM-Centrum, Sweden • Institute for Cultural Memory, Romania • Heritage Malta • Istituto per i beni artistici, culturali e naturali – Regione Emilia-Romagna Erfgoed Nederland • Museums • Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza • Rijksmuseum • Institute for Museum Research, Berlin • International Council of Museums Europe • Natural History Museum • Network of European Museum Organisations • European Museums Forum • Museum of London Group • Science Museum • Libraries • Danish State Library Aarhus • Catholic University of Leuven • European Bureau of Library, Information & Documentation Associations • Ligues des bibliothèques européenes de recherches • Consortium of European Research Libraries • State and University Library Göttingen • Conference of European National Librarians • Cervantes Library • Biblioteca de Catalunya • National Authorities on Public Libraries in Europe • Project Contributors • Bernstein • CITER • DELOS • DIGMAP • DISMARC • DRIVER • EPsIplus • Video Active • MultiMatch • Cross Czech a.s. • TrebleCLEF • Knowledge Management in Museums Project • Research institutions • Arts and Humanities Data Service • Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland • Digital Lifecycle Management Forum • Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Music Archive • European Commission on Preservation & Access • German Social Science Infrastructure Sciences • Heriot-Watt University • Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - National Technical University of Athens • Institute of Mathematics and Informatics • Kennisland / Knowledgeland • TOPP Consulting GmbH • Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • National representatives • Austria, National Library • Belgium, Royal Library • Bulgaria, New Bulgarian University Library • Cyprus, Ministry of Education and Culture • Czech Republic, National Library • Denmark, Royal Library • Estonia, National Library • Finland, National Library • France, National Library • Germany, National Library • Greece, Veria Central Public Library • Hungary, National Library • Iceland, National and University Library • Ireland, University College Cork • Latvia, National Library • Liechtenstein, National Library • Lithuania, Vilnius University • Luxembourg, National Library • Norway, National Library • Poland, National Library • Portugal, National Library • Slovakia, National Library • Slovenia, National Library • Spain, National Library • Sweden, National Library • United Kingdom, British Libraryall domains • Brings together the digitised & digital items from Museums, • Archives, Audio Visual Collections & Libraries across Europe • Solves the issues of interoperability in data • Works on usability – finding paths, presenting items, appealing • Finds sustainable governance & organisational models • Builds on previous initiatives / BRICKS, ANNOculture, Qviz, Michael The cross domain network Network of 120 cultural institutions Access to material from 160 plus Two major cross domain conferences
Strong network 120 members Plus 45 institutions who have completed the questionnaire for harvesting ALL EU countries represented ALL Domains represented 1.3 million items harvested to date 800,000 ingested At least 2 million will be harvested & ingested by November 19. Search across domains and material types works Standards being agreed across & within domains Domains talking to each other for the first time Europeana.eu –The Successes to Date
Interoperability;Standards;Relevance;Accessibility Google speeds accessing deep web material User focus – created with, validated by, cross checked & redesigned according to user wishes...... Europeana.eu –The Successes for the future user user user user user
All the user surveys, focus groups and information has been give to a design company............ We have a new design...........but it is embargoed until November 2008................ Europeana.eu – A new design……….
Europeana.eu – A new design………. • For more information: http://www.europeana.eu Questions?