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EuropeanaLocal- Europeana Knowledge Sharing Workshop

EuropeanaLocal- Europeana Knowledge Sharing Workshop. 13/14 January 2009 Rob Davies, Scientific Co-ordinator EuropeanaLocal. Basic facts. Best Practice Network Duration 36 months (2008-11) Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded) 1031+ Person-months in total 32 Partners 39 Deliverables

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EuropeanaLocal- Europeana Knowledge Sharing Workshop

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  1. EuropeanaLocal- Europeana Knowledge Sharing Workshop 13/14 January 2009 Rob Davies, Scientific Co-ordinator EuropeanaLocal

  2. Basic facts • Best Practice Network • Duration 36 months (2008-11) • Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded) • 1031+ Person-months in total • 32 Partners • 39 Deliverables • 200+ ‘collections’

  3. EuropeanaLocal objectives • Provide local and regionally sourced content for integrated Europeana service • demonstrate the value of local/regionally sourced content • large-scale pilot implementation: 27 countries • estimated 20 million items identified initially by partners • Implement Europeana specifications and tools • OAI-PMH repositories • ‘map’ existing metadata to Europeana Metadata Application Profile (ESE?) • local vocabularies ‘SKOSified’ • Improve interoperability of digital content held by regional and local museums, libraries and archives

  4. Moving things on…. • Support sensible levels of aggregation • national cross-domain portals, digital libraries, cultural portals etc • Make content available to other service providers • Tourism • Education • Family history • Humanities research • Publishing/media industries • … other search engines and services on the web

  5. Variable and changing starting points • Advanced practice among EuropeanaLocal partners in implementing digital libraries, portals, OAI-PMH etc • France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, UK • Limited progress elsewhere • Spectrum from somewhat centralised to very regional/local • Centralised initiatives seldom have full country coverage • Europeana target for national portal aggregations is 14 member states by 2012 • Currently 6 or 7 underway? • Collection level or item level? • EuropeanaLocal: phased approach in the light of reality

  6. Some important local content types • Items and collections of high cultural value (‘treasures’) held at local or regional level • Specific local collections held by libraries, museums and archives, local audio-visual archives • Visual material high in the mix • Public domain ‘cultural’ records held by archives etc. • Promote content contribution from local users/ communities • More digitisation needed for full representation of all localities

  7. Europeana content holders

  8. Regional content co-ordinators • 1 Ministry of Culture (as aggregator of local content) • 2 national libraries (“) • 2 national museums (“) • 3 national cultural agencies (“) • 5 regional cultural authorities • 7 public libraries • 1 local museum • 1 research foundation • 1 regional digital library provider • 4 private sector/NGO

  9. Partner tasks • Establish Europeana-friendly infrastructure • install OAI-PMH-compliant repositories • map and transform their metadata • make vocabularies available • Work towards a sensible level of aggregation in their country • Europeana standards compliance • Encourage more digitisation of local content • identify centres of competence on digitisation • priorities • Work ‘cross domain’ • archives, audio-visual archives, museums

  10. Technical partners • Asplan Viak (Norway) and EEA (Slovakia) • transfer knowledge from Europeana ‘central’ to technical partners • involved with Europeana working groups • Establish effective support to local regional partners • Europe coverage split in two • training workshops • translated guidelines • Individual partner implementation plans • help desk and ‘flying doctor’ • Establish tools scenario • automated metadata conversion tools etc

  11. Workpackages 1 Project management and co-ordination 2 Metadata survey and content analysis 3 Content harvesting and aggregation 4 Implementation of Europeana standards and tools 5 Dissemination and awareness raising 6 Evaluation and progress monitoring

  12. The first six months (June to November) • WP 1 Management, communications structures, briefing. • WP 2 Preparatory and survey work • WP 3 and 4 Preparing for implementation, training, support • Technical primer • WP 5 Website and other dissemination activities • harmonise with Europeana PR, dissemination, marketing • raise visibility (international conferences, national events) • WP 6 Establishing Evaluation Working Group • planning around performance and impact measurements • Discussions with other projects in the Europeana ‘family’ e.g.Athena • optimize complementary activities, sharing, minimising redundancy • who will be responsible for which types of content

  13. Key objectives for Months 7-12 (December to June) • WP 2 Metadata survey and content analysis • survey reports to be finalised and used as a basis for planning. • approach to ‘thematic content’ to be agreed with Europeana and taken into account in implementation planning. • plan and instigate work to establish metadata repositories • WP3 Content harvesting and aggregation • first implementation of central test environment for EuropeanaLocal by EDLF • initial test harvesting undertaken. • guidance on repository software selection provided. • ‘installer’ and other available tools identified and tested.

  14. Months 7-12 continued • WP4 Implementing Europeana standards and tools • technical knowledge exchange between Europeana and EuropeanaLocal completed and updating procedures established • review of available tools completed • technical guidance developed and expanded • online help desk active • first three regional training workshops completed • implementation planning for first12 partners completed • some repositories/aggregations available for test harvesting

  15. ..again • WP5 Dissemination and awareness raising • redesign of website and dissemination plan in co-operation with Europeana • growth of stakeholder database • procedures for new content providers to join agreed with Europeana and other ‘family’ projects • WP6 Evaluation and progress monitoring • performance measurement schemas and data collection instruments in place • e.g. how can repositories help measure

  16. This workshop • EuropeanaLocal will establish simple, efficient and sustainable processes through which local and regional cultural heritage institutions can easily make their content available to Europeana • W4: open, establish, maintain & sustain a two-way synergetic communication channel and implement a workflow between EuropeanaLocal and Europeana with mutual exchange of technical knowledge, best-practices, tools, training and support • These two days and the working relationships established are a key event in ensuring the future effectiveness of EuropeanaLocal in supporting the goals of Europeana

  17. www.europeanalocal.eu rob.davies@mdrpartners com

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