Europeana: Creating the Digital Library of Digital Libraries

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Europeana Creating the Digital Library of
Digital Libraries Digital Library Conference,
Jasna, Slovakia 28-30 April 2008
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What is Europeana?
A portal or Internet site providing access to
Europes cultural heritage
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EU Vision for a European digital library
A common multilingual access point would make
it possible to search Europes distributed that
is to say, held in different places by different
organisations digital cultural heritage online.
Such an access point would increase its
visibility and underline common features. The
access point should build on existing initiatives
such as The European Library (TEL), in which
Europes libraries already cooperate. It should
where possible closely associate private holders
of rights in cultural material and all interested
stakeholders. A strong commitment by the Member
states and cultural institutions to arrive at
such an access point should be encouraged.
European Union Communiqué August 2006
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With these goals

• End 2006 full collaboration among EU national
  libraries.
• From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to
  archives and museums.
• 2,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts,
  and other cultural works accessible by 2008
• At least 6,000,000 works by 2010

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So how are we going to get there? The Process

• The European Library
• EDL Foundation
• Legal entity to sustain develop the European
  digital library -Europeana
• Current Projects EDLnet Europeana
• Projects starting this year EPA EFG Athena
  EDLocal Arrow
• Proposals for Future Projects
• Europeana v1.0
• EuropeanaConnect
• EuropeanaTravel
• Europeana Museums
• ROSE
• BHL
• PrestoPRIME

eContentPlus Projects
IST Projects
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EDL Foundation A legal entity to sustain and
develop the Europeana and to provide a framework
for funding and future governance
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• EDLnet Europeana the European digital library
• Thematic Network Partner Group across Museums,
  Archives, Audio-Visual Archives Libraries
  started July 07
• A user defined prototype by November 08
• Makes recommendations for future research

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Process

• 3 major Workpackages
• Network of nearly 100 partners all 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

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Progress to date

• Requirements gathered from all 4 domains
• Pulled together in the Maquette
• Professional end user feedback
• Content what have the institutions got?
• D2.5 new surrogate model and architecture
• Prototype 1 in progress

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The When
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The Maquette
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Projects starting this year

• Athena - Museums
• EFG Film Gateway
• EPA - Archives
• EDLocal small, medium regional archives,
  libraries and museums
• Arrow publishers and libraries

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New Project Proposals

• Europeana v1.0 operational service
• EuropeanaConnect best practice network
• EuropeanaTravel libraries digitisation targeted
  project
• EuropeanaFilm
• EuropeanaMuseum
• BHL
• EUScreen
• ROSE

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Immediate Next Steps

• Users expect the Interoperable
• Europeana -EDLnet Conference
• June 23 and 24
• Determining the Business Model
• Promoting the video to get content holders to
  hand over their goodies!

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Thank You