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Europeana Vlaanderen Overlegplatform lessons learned 2008-2013 17 januari 2014 Hans van der Linden. Evolution and instruments. Alignment with EDL. ° 2007: European Digital Library ° 2008: Europeana Vlaanderen Overlegplatform Goal: Dissemination of information about Europeana
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Europeana Vlaanderen Overlegplatform lessonslearned 2008-2013 17 januari 2014 Hans van der Linden
Alignmentwith EDL ° 2007: European Digital Library ° 2008: Europeana Vlaanderen Overlegplatform Goal: • Dissemination of information aboutEuropeana • AdviseEuropeana via EDL V1.0 • AdviseK.U.Leuven on the participation of Flanders in Europeana • PromoteEuropeana
Instruments 1. conferences • 2007, 2009, 2011 • Awareness raisingfordigitisation/Europeana • Information on projectsandgoodpractices • enlargedaudience
2. meetings • 3-4 yearly • different locations • Presentations on variety of topics: European policy, EU calls forprojects, current EU-projects, relevant other issues + mailinglist
Consensus / shared views • on issues relatingto the impact of digitisation of culturalheritage • eg. • Europeana, Next Steps (2009) • The New Renaissance (2010) • Data Exchange Agreements • ‘The impact of Europeana’ (2013) + stimulantforcreation of workgroups on legal issues
Composition • Informal • Based on general interest in Europeana • Interdisciplinarity: contentproviders, intermediaries, universities, policy level …
Goal • “The Europeana Network is united by a common cultural mission to work together to improve access to Europe’s cultural heritage in balanced and sustainable ways” • To enhance the quality and the accessibility of digital (cultural) heritage • Europeana as a means
addedvalue of the platform • Communication and exchange of expertise • European development: policy / funding • Sharing of technical expertise on howto make data accessible • SharingideasandinteractionwithEuropeana • The platform as part of aninteractiveprocess. (alignedwith MSEG or a possible OMC-approach)?
Impetus on quality of digital data • The platform as co-ordination in relationto data quality (CEST) • Collaboration • On a Flemish (/Belgian) level: the platform gathersinstitutionswith shared interests • On aninternational level: the platform could be a gateway toaninternationalnetwork via Europeana (Network)
Couldsimilarnetworksinvolveculturalheritagenetworksall over Europe by the Europeana Network andconnectthem?