EuropeanaConnect

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EuropeanaConnect

• event
• location, date

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Contents of presentation

• Background Europeana and related projects
• What is EuropeanaConnect
• Objectives
• Partners
• Specific content to be contributed to Europeana
• Structure
• Achievements
• Challenges/next steps

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Europeana
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Europeana the vision

• A digital library that is a single, direct and
  multilingual access point to the European
  cultural heritage.
• European Parliament, 27 September 2007
• A unique resource for Europe's distributed
  cultural heritage ensuring a common access to
  Europe's libraries, archives and museums.
• Horst Forster, Former Director, Digital Content
  Cognitive Systems Information Society
  Directorate, European Commission

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www.europeana.eu Content

• 7 million items are now accessible
• 4 million images photos, paintings, drawings,
  postcards, posters
• 2.5 million texts books, newspapers,
  manuscripts, letters
• 92,000 videos film, documentary, TV broadcasts,
  public information
• 24,000 sounds cylinders, 78rpm discs, radio,
  field recordings
• Europeana is governed by the Europeana
  Foundation and supported by CENL

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Europeana Group of Projects
PrestoPRIME
Arrow
Europeana
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What is EuropeanaConnect ?

• Best Practice Network
• Co-funded by EC in the eContentplus programme
• Duration May 2009 October 2011 ( 2,5 years)
• 30 project partners from 14 countries
• Coordinated by Austrian National Library
• 900 Person Months total labour effort
• Total budget 5.625.000 Euro
• 80 EU funding 4.500.000 Euro

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Key Objectives of EuropeanaConnect

1. Provide a critical mass of audio content to
   Europeana and implement an audio-enabling
   infrastructure
2. Build the Semantic Layer for Europeana
3. Facilitate multilingual access to Europeana
4. Develop novel access channels to Europeana (like
   mobile access)
5. Provide tools and methodologies for user-driven
   development and for testing and evaluation
6. Build value-added services (like
   e-Books-on-Demand)
7. Implement key infrastructure components (like
   OAI-PMH infrastructure)
8. Build the Europeana Licensing Framework
9. Enable stronger and wider collaborative networking

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Partner Institutions

• Europeana Foundation, The Hague
• 8 Libraries
• Austrian National Library (Coordinator)
• Royal Library of Denmark
• National Library of Luxembourg
• National Library of the Netherlands
• Innsbruck University Library
• State- and University Library Göttingen
• German National Library
• National Library of Portugal

• 10 Universities and Academies of Sciences
• Humboldt University Berlin
• University of Vienna
• Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
• Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
• National Technical University of Athens
• University of Amsterdam
• University of Padua
• Polish Academy of Sciences
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Slovenian Academy of Sciences

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Partner Institutions

• 10 Universities and Academies of Sciences
• Humboldt University Berlin
• University of Vienna
• Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
• Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
• National Technical University of Athens
• University of Amsterdam
• University of Padua
• Polish Academy of Sciences
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Slovenian Academy of Sciences

• 1 Broadcast Company
• RBB Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
• 1 Publishing House
• Amsterdam University Press
• 1 Institute for Literature
• Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore,
  Vilnius
• 1 Consultant Company
• Eremo s.r.l., Cupramontana

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Specific content to be contributed to Europeana

• EuropeanaConnect will add a critical mass of
  audio content to Europeana
• Implement an audio-aggregation infrastructure to
  harvest audio from hundreds of audio archives
• Around 200.000 music tracks will be added to
  Europeana

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Work Structure
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Work Package 1Creating the Europeana Semantic
Layer

• WP Lead Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE
• Semantic Data Layer Creation
• Aligning the Semantic Data
• Workflow Automation
• Functional Specifications for Semantics Based
  Operations
• Testing and Evaluation
• Networking and Clustering Activities

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Work Package 2 Multilingual Access to Content

• WP Lead Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE
• User studies and evaluation of multilingual
  resources use
• Europeana Language Resources Repository
• Tools for multilingual mapping of controlled
  vocabularies and subject metadata
• Translation modules for Europeana
• Testing and evaluation of translation modules
• Integration with Europeana retrieval framework
• Dissemination Exchange of multilingual access
  strategies for digital libraries

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Work Package 3 User Driven Development and New
Access Channels

• WP Lead The Royal Library, DK
• Log analysis for future user-driven development
• Methodologies and tools for user involvement
• Spatio-temporal access channels for Europeana
• Mobile Access Channels for Europeana

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Work Package 4Europeana Licensing Framework

• WP Lead National Library of Luxembourg, LU
• Recommendations for a core Europeana Licensing
  Framework and validation thereof
• Creating tools for the Europeana Licensing
  Framework
• Evaluation and testing of the tools and proof of
  concept
• Deployment in Europeana

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Work Package 5 Enabling and Integrating
Services for Europeana

• WP Lead Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH,
  AT
• Europeana Metadata Registry
• Europeana Service Registry
• Europeana OAI-PMH Management Infrastructure
• Europeana Resolution Discovery Service for
  Persistent Identifiers
• Geographical Information Services
• Multimedia Annotation Services
• eBooks on Demand (EOD) Service
• User Testing, Evaluation and Assessment of the
  Services
• Cross-project Networking and Clustering

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Work Package 6Audio Aggregation

• WP Lead Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, DE
• Audio content aggregation, themes coordination
• Extension of the network to include new content
  providers
• Metadata harmonisation and data enrichment
• Content management tools, IPR
• Training activities and support
• Pilots, Testing Evaluation

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Work Package 7Dissemination and Concertation

• WP Lead EREMO S.R.L., IT
• Dissemination of project results
• Dissemination tools (website, project
  presentation, posters, fact sheet, press
  releases, etc.)
• Concertation with Europeana v1.0
• Concertation with EU activities

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Work Package 8 Project Management

• WP Lead Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, AT
• Financial coordination
• Internal consortium management and coordination
• Overall monitoring
• Liaison with the Commission
• Evaluation and Quality control

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Achievements first year
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Adding music audio to Europeana

• Over 54,000 music audio and related items from
  more than 100 collections from 26 archives in 16
  countries delivered to Europeana
• New audio content will follow with the next
  harvesting of the DISMARC/EuropeanaConnect Audio
  Aggregation Platform which delivers the content
  to Europeana
• Set of tools for content management developed
• Enable content owners to manage their data online
  and allow users to add their own comments about
  particular pieces of music

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Building the Europeana Semantic Layer

• Survey of controlled and structured vocabularies
  among Europeana data providers carried out
• Selected vocabularies successfully migrated to
  SKOS
• Specification of semantic functionality created
  and checked with selected expert users
• Substantial contribution made to the Europeana
  Data Model (EDM), assisting with its
  specification and stabilisation

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Multilingual Access to Europeana

• Report on user preferences and information
  retrieval scenarios for multilingual access in
  Europeana produced
• Specification for the Europeana language
  resources repository developed
• Multilingual mapping of controlled vocabularies
  has begun with an exploration of available
  resources

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Understanding User Needs / New Access Channels

• Development of a methodology for understanding
  what users do when they visit Europeana (aimed to
  improve their experience)
• Provision of Log-file analysis and development of
  a personas catalogue as a tool for user
  evaluation
• Development of a protoype of a spatio-temporal
  interface to enable users to explore Europeana by
  time and location
• Development of a generic Europeana mobile client,
  adapting to the users mobile device

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Europeana Licensing Framework

• Key activity clarifying the legal situation and
  suggesting licenses to content providers
• Europeana Public Domain Charter
  http//version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project
  /publications
• Provision of a draft Data Provider Agreement and
  Data Aggregator Agreement
• Governs the relationships between Europeana and
  its partners
• Public Domain Helper tools developed
• Define decision trees to translate the law into a
  tool to decide if a work is in the public domain
  or not

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Integrating software and services in Europeana

• Geographical Information Services (GIS) suite to
  enrich Europeana metadata and content with
  explicit geographical metadata and references
• Prototypes and showcases of both tools available.
• Multimedia Annotation Services to provide
  Europeana with annotation capabilities for audio
  and video content, images and maps.
• eBook-on-Demand Service (EoD) to allow automated
  and generic transfer of eBooks created within EoD
  network to Europeana and to enable the ordering
  of eBooks-on-Demand

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How to obtain information on EuropeanaConnect

• Project web site www.europeanaconnect.eu
• Dissemination resources and project
  resultshttp//www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-an
  d-resources.php

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