Open Up Your Metadata!

Open Up Your Metadata!Georgia Angelaki, Europeana

Poznan, 11 October 2011

What is Europeana?

“A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European cultural heritage.”

European Parliament, 27 September 2007

2011

91 direct providers and aggregatorsmore than 1500 individual institutions20+m items

CC-BY-NC(like)

CC0 1.0 Universal

Public Domain Dedication

Why?

Users:Trusted source

Ease of useRe-use

In my workflow

Cultural Institutions:VisibilityServices Revenue

Politicians:Inclusion

Education Leadership

Economic growth

Market:Straightforward route to content

Access to the networkPremium servicesBrand Association

AGGREGATE

DISTRIBUTE

FACILITATE

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ENGAGE4

Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Metadata related to the digitised objects produced by the cultural institutions

should be widely and freely available for re-use.Key recommendations, p5

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Public Sector Data - Changing Expectations

The advent of the Web accelerated the development of a collaboration culture & fostered an expectation that information, metadata & content should be as freely available as the Internet itself

Many wider benefit arguments have been advanced for public bodies to make their data freely available

2009 saw an increasing Government commitment to the principle of opening up public data for wider re-use. The Putting the Frontline First: smarter government report requires “the majority of government-published information to be reusable, linked data by June 2011”

Benefit for state Benefit for public body

·Stimulation of knowledge economy will generate tax revenue, business opportunities & jobs via innovation ·Public sector information is an underexploited resource & governments should maximise state benefits from their initial investment ·Encourages diversity of resources – no single supplier can create all services or content·Taxpayers have already paid once for data creation, why pay again?·Minimal development required since the data is already created

·Possible data cleanup for re-harvesting by organisation·User generated or added linked content may enhance internal data ·Offers free R&D & Management Information opportunities·New opportunities for collaboration to assist internal efficiencies·Increased reputation/relevance seen as inclusive community partner·Opportunities to offer new value added services on back of free offering

When public data (which already has been created at public

expense) is made openly available for re-use, everybody can benefit:

Citizens get better information, companies can come up with new

business opportunities and public administrations will

(or anyhow should) be grateful for others to work and add

value for everybody: this is win-win.

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Result of long series of negotiations with content providers & aggregators.

Main ChangesDrop “Non-commercial use only” (NC) Drop “Attribution” (BY)Drop “Share-alike” restriction (SA) Adopt a standardised licenseSimplify agreements

• In general simpler and better worded in legal terms• Takes in input from data providers’ workshops and

consultation process - a lot of articles have been improved

• Combines data provider and data aggregator agreement in one: the data exchange agreement

• Only give to Europeana what you are comfortable with• No need to provide metadata for complete or all

collections

Why drop NC and BY?• Most of the metadata is factual information

• Most has been created with taxpayers’ money and everyone should have the right to use it

• It is very difficult to define the boundaries of NC

• Attribution is very hard to enforce especially when a long chain of intermediaries are involved

• New applications and uses can spring for data

• There is much more to gain by giving up something

• Need for a standardised license that will allow a minimum threshold for re-use

The Process• Workshops on risks and rewards of open licenses –

(September 2010-December 2012)

• Workshops and presentations (APENET, ATHENA, EFG, EUSCREEN)

• Workshop with directors of museums, libraries, archives and av on the business models of open data

• Online consultation with the network between December 2010 and January 2011

• Second round of consultation with whole network in May

• 4 Hackathons in June (Barcelona, Poznan, London, Stockholm)

• LOD pilot

• Paper commissioned on the compatibility of CC0 with German jurisdiction

• Dedicated website about open data and our new agreement

Risks identified in the workshops

Rewards identified in the workshops

Related Europeana activities

Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot

• 9 direct providers representing

• 300 libraries, museums, archives and av collections

• 16 countries

• 3,5 m records

• Pilot went live in June

• Proof that nothing bad will happen

• It’s a pilot- it’s still subject to change

• CC0 is cleared for this data

• Check it out: Data.europeana.eu

Digital Agenda Day API Hackathons

Hack4Europe!

• About 85 developers participated• With a majority being independent

developers or representing SMEs• Creating 48 prototypes• Why: to showcase the social and

commercial value of open cultural data

• With 14 winners in the categories and local special awards

Winner of the Commercial Potential Award: Art4Europe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PEz2d7OLE

Winner of the Innovation Award: TimeMash

Winner of the Audience Award: TimeBook

More activities…• Individual meetings with providers

• Lots of workshops

• LOD animation

• Operationalise some of the apps

• Paper on the Business Models of Open Data for the

Cultural Heritage Sector

• Advocacy towards policy-makers: ie all EU-funded

projects have to make their data available under

open licenses and publicly funded digitisation

should deliver CC0 metadata

CENL / EU screen adopt DEA

CC0 will be applied as of

July 1st, 2012!

Dziękuję!

Pytania?

Georgia.angeaki@kb.nl