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Europeana Inside. Nick Poole, CEO, Collections Trust. Collections Trust. Our aim is to help people define and achieve excellence in providing collection-based services to their users
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Europeana Inside Nick Poole, CEO, Collections Trust
Collections Trust Our aim is to help people define and achieve excellence in providing collection-based services to their users People use our standards and guidance to reduce their expenditure, maintain accountability, mitigate risk, train staff and manage programmes Collections have to be part of the answer – as a community, we have to show how what we do delivers value in a way that users understand and want it We are all about supporting change and innovation – every new vision of what we can do starts with Collections Management
European Cultural Programmes • The European Commission invested €6bn in Cultural programmes between 2007-2013 • Key priorities: • Promoting Intercultural dialogue • Supporting mobility of skills and Collections • Developing the Cultural & Creative Industries • Developing Digital Libraries • Supporting Digital Literacy • http://ec.europa.eu/culture
What is Europeana? PORTAL NETWORKS API/CHANNELS PROJECTS
Europeana key facts 23m records 1700 partners 6m unique visitors per annum + rising 25+ projects 33 countries UK is 8th biggest community (1.10m digital assets) http://www.europeana.eu
Europeana projects EUROPEANA AWARENESS Promote awareness and use of Europeana in all European Member States, including press and promotional activity, and specific projects to engage with Wikipedia and other content communities
Europeana projects DIGITISING CONTEMPORARY ART Digitising 26,921 artworks including paintings, sculptures, installations and time-based media
Europeana projects EUROPEANA 1914-18 Crowdsourced digitisation, working with the University of Oxford to run one-day events where the public bring photographs and artefacts into libraries and learn how to digitise, catalogue and publish them
Europeana Inside facts & figures €3.8m Research & Development programme Developed in partnership with KE 28 partners incl. 10 leading software companies 12 European Member States, plus the US and South Africa 960,000 new records into Europeana Led by the Collections Trust http://www.europeanainside.eu
The challenge We need Collections Management Systems to work harder to support the increasingly diverse needs of the museum Maximising the use of your online collections means delivering them on your site and serving them up for use via multiple channels/API The purpose of Europeana Inside is to build into your CMS the tools to manage how your collections are shared, with whom and under what conditions Putting the control of re-use in your hands
Museum Museum Europeana Connection Kits Library Collections Management System Library Archive Digital Asset Management System Archive AV Archive Enriched metadata Content providers Technical partners Aggregators
The benefits Connecting Collections Management and Collections publishing workflows Europeana, Wikipedia, BBC Digital Public Space, Google History Maximising the exposure of your online collections Limiting the risk through granular rights/permissions management Cleaning up your metadata for re-use Providing a channel for user-enhanced metadata to flow back to you Opening up opportunities for income generation
The next challenge Once we have opened up Collections metadata for re-use through multiple channels, we need a way of tracking metrics & impact This is outside the scope of Europeana Inside, but will form the basis of a future project proposal Part of a broader discussion about metrics & KPI for online collections – moving from quantity to reach and engagement
European Funding European funding presents a huge opportunity for UK museums wanting to make more active use of their Collections As long as you aren’t the coordinator, participating in European-funded projects is simple Participating opens up new networks & partnerships The European Commission is currently evaluating the possibility of diverting €m into enabling Digitisation in European museums We need to increase participation in EU funding by UK institutions
Next steps Join the Europeana Network – http://pro.europeana.eu Find out about CT’s programmes – www.collectionslink.org.uk Information about EU funding for UK museums – www.culturefund.eu Get in touch with us to find out more about our other EU funded projects and opportunities for future partnerships!