EuropeanaLocal: its contribution

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Rob Davies, Scientific coordinator
Europeana Meeting, Varna, Bulgaria
23-24 March 2010

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EuropeanaLocal: its contribution

  1. 1. EuropeanaLocal: itscontributionRob Davies, Scientific CoordinatorEuropeana meeting, Varna, Bulgaria24 March 2010
  2. 2. Europeana today• Content: approaching 7 million items from every domain, every EU member – images: photos, paintings, drawings, postcards, posters – texts: books, newspaper articles, manuscripts, letters – videos: movies, documentaries, TV broadcasts, public information films – sounds: cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio, field recordings
  3. 3. Content Analysis – (August 2009) 82% of the content comes from 4 countries
  4. 4. Content Analysis – 2 3%, Stadtgeschitliches4%, Kansalliskirjasto 12%, Others 4%, 40%, Culture Fr Nasjonalbiblioteket 5%, Knowledge Management 7%, Scran 8%,BNF 12%, Saxon 9%, Het Geheugen van NL 70% of the content came from 4 providers
  5. 5. Content Analysis – 3 Sound; 0,3% Video; 2,4% Text; 19,8% Image; 77,5% 77.5% of the content is classified as ‘image’
  6. 6. Europeana content objectives• 10 million items for Rhine release, summer 2010• Representation of National and European culture by all European countries• Representation of all domains and types of content
  7. 7. Content Strategy• Promotion and support of aggregators• Collaboration between all Europeana related projects• Content Acquisition Plan to ensure an even representation of all European countries and types of content• Development of relevant themes of content available
  8. 8. Representation of countries (August 09)Tier 1 – High Priority Austria • Identification of<1% content in Europeana Bulgaria potential Cyprus collections and Czech Republic institutions Denmark • Proactive approach Estonia of Member States Hungary and institutions Iceland • Intensive technical Ireland and organisational Latvia support for content Lithuania providers Luxembourg • Prioritisation of Malta content partners Poland from tier 1 in all Portugal projects Romania • Intensive technical Serbia and organisational Slovakia support for Slovenia potential Spain aggregators Switzerland
  9. 9. Content Strategy – parameters for prioritisation
  10. 10. Collaboration: Europeana Group of Projects Biodiversity Heritage Library EuropePresto Judaica Europeana ArrowPrime Europeana Local Europeana v.1.0 Musical Inst. Museums Online European Europeana Film Gateway Europeana Travel EuropeanaConnect EUScreen APEnet Athena The European Library
  11. 11. Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE)Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE) V3.2 developed for theprototype•A Dublin core-based application profile • Cross-domain schema for heterogeneous data • Not to capture the full semantics of provider’s data • specialist data is held with the object at the original host site•37 Dublin Core terms – used principally to describe theobjects•12 Europeana coined terms•Needed to have consistent data for the portal to work
  12. 12. The metadata thing Continuing evolution of data standards at Europeana All existing metadata schemas need to be mapped to ESE. Introduction of Europeana Data Model ELocal needs to monitor and manage the impact on local/regional content providers
  13. 13. Aggregators“ An organisation that collects metadata from its group of content providers and transmits them to Europeana, helps content providers with guidance on conformance (…) and converts metadata (…), supports with administration, operations and training”
  14. 14. Europeana Activities• Establishment of CCPA & Aggregators Group• Aggregator Survey (report available at group.europeana.eu)• Aggregator Handbook• Training• Europeana Content Checker• Identifying potential new aggregators
  15. 15. Types of aggregator Matrix of aggregators: • cross-domain, single domain, thematic • level of operation – regional, national, European, globalDomain/Geographic coverage Regional National European Worldwide This in Brabant CulturaItalia EuropeanaCross-domain(horizontal) MovE (museums in Direcção-Geral de Dismarc (music) World Digital library East Flanders ) Arquivos WorldCatSingle- domain (Portuguese TEL (books)(vertical) archives) EFG (movies)Them- Cross domain Judaica ArXiv.orgatic Single domain Great War Archive
  16. 16. Future Infrastructure Model 1: Vertical up to Europeana Europeana EFG Ape net TEL Athena BHL Archives Libraries Museums etcNational Archives National Libraries Film, Research Big Museums labs etc
  17. 17. Future infrastructure Model 2: National cross-domain aggregation Europeana ingest National National National National aggregation 1 aggregation 2 aggregation 3 aggregation 4Archives Libraries Archives Libraries Archives Libraries Archives LibrariesMuseums etc Museums etc Museums etc Museums etc
  18. 18. Issues for resolution• Mixing the two models reflects reality and depends on situation in each country • will create duplication of ingested content for Europeana • technical solution: introduction of persistent identifiers • Danger of requiring redundant effort, resources in hard times?• What if neither model works? • Only 7/8 countries have national cross-domain aggregators • European domain aggregations need business models to survive- so do national aggregators • Services to other customers as well as Europeana • professional, research, education, tourism etc
  19. 19. Issues (2)• Sustainability of several vertical domain aggregators at European level post-project– who will pay/own/operate?• Do vertical portals (e.g. TEL, APENet) take account of local/regional content or are they mainly set up for national institutions?• Feasible/manageable for national aggregations to handle more complex data models cross-domain?
  20. 20. The road ahead for EuropeanaLocal
  21. 21. EuropeanaLocal (2008-11) Best Practice Network Improve interoperability of digital content sourced by regional/local libraries, museums, archives  20 million items identified in proposalInfrastructure for harvesting and indexing metadata  Europe wide network of OAI-PMH repositories/ aggregationsMap existing metadata to Europeana metadata  Local vocabularies processed Integrated within Europeana prototype service Establish easy processes for making content/metadata available 22
  22. 22. Basic facts Duration 36 months Budget 4.3 million Euro (80% funded) 1031+ Person-months in total 32 Partners 39 Deliverables 23
  23. 23. EuropeanaLocal partners: types of organisationEDLFoundation (Europeana)1 Ministry of Culture2 national libraries (as aggregators of local content)2 national museums3 national cultural agencies5 regional cultural authorities7 public libraries1 local museum1 research foundation1 regional digital library provider7 private sector organisations 24
  24. 24. EuropeanaLocal content in Europeana• Better representation of regional/local content in Europeana• Important role in short term for ELocal• But an equally important role in promoting longer term infrastructure for local and regional content• Based on Implementation Plan 2008 2009 2010 2011 J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O ELocal Ev1.0EConnect Danube Rhine
  25. 25. EuropeanaLocal: where are we?• June 2008-2011 • Over half-way through• Year 1 was preparation • Commission Review of preparatory year (July 2009) was favourable• Year 2 is implementation : getting content into Europeana• Year 3 focus will be encouraging more sustained aggregation of local and regional content
  26. 26. Content for Rhine release from EuropeanaLocal• A big opportunity to prove value of local and regional content • a great improvement in place-based discovery• Substantial amounts of content already being ingested from a large number of partners • Content from Poland, Norway, UK, Spain, Sweden, Romania, Slovenia ingested already or by end April • Something from almost every country by Rhine• EuropeanaLocal will contribute over 3 million items to the 10 million Rhine target: the largest source (more by Danube)• EuropeanaLocal partners are only a small sample of aggregations/ regions (e.g. Varna in Bulgaria)
  27. 27. What after that?• EuropeanaLocal a proof of concept regarding the value of local and regionally sourced content – But...... a short term approach to short term targets• In fact, a Best Practice Network……• It is not a sustainable approach; there is no ELocal repository• Action is needed at national level to aggregate local and regional content ...its metadata – You need digital content first!
  28. 28. Impact through aggregation• Local/regional content must go into aggregations that Europeana will continue to harvest – a manageable number• Ideally ELocal needs to be able to count what goes into national aggregations too to reach Danube target.• Convince other local/regional content providers of the value of getting involved.• Make local content infrastructure available for harvesting and indexing by Europeana service• Make branded content available to other service providers• Need for viable aggregator business models• Bulgaria – start something
  29. 29. What are ELocal partners?• ELocal partners in each country are almost all aggregators, large or small – In some countries they are already a major national or regional aggregator of local content – In some countries, where none exists, they might become the national or regional aggregator of local content – In some countries, their main task will be to ensure that the local and regional content they have aggregated becomes part of a larger aggregation
  30. 30. ELocal national meetings• Potentially important events in moving forward ‘aggregation politics’ in each country • Towards a ‘sensible level of aggregation’• Who should come: stakeholders with an interest in local/regional digital content • People working at policy/strategic level • Content providers and aggregators • Users/reusers Whats the next step?
  31. 31. www.europeanalocal.eurob.davies@mdrpartners com

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