Europeana Inside – An Introduction

ICT PSP Call 5 Project

Vision

Europeana Inside is a Best Practice network which aims to achieve a lasting transformation in the quantity and scope of material contributed to Europeana by European cultural institutions.

We will do this by creating open-source tools which reduce or remove the legal, technical, financial and operational barriers to participation in aggregated services by cultural institutions.

The Europeana Inside Network brings together world-leading cultural heritage institutions with global Collections Management System providers to provide a combination of sector and technical expertise.

Facts & Figures

• EU-funded Best Practice Network• 28 Participants• 5 National & Thematic Aggregators• 12 Nations• 30 Months• 960,000 new records into Europeana• 4m Euro• Start date: 2nd April 2012

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28 Participants…

Collections Trust, UKKnowledge Integration Ltd, UKStiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, DEzetcom AG, DEPostScriptum Info Architecture Ltd., GRDigitaal Erfgoed Nederland, NLSystem Simulation Ltd, UKCatholic University of Leuven, BEMuseum of Fine Arts Budapest, HUKE Software Ltd. UKRoyal Museums of Art & History, BEPetőfi Literary Museum, HURoger Layton Associates, South Africa

Alexandros Soutzos Museum, GRMobydoc, FRIBBT, BEHungarian National Museum, HUEuropeana Foundation, NLAdlib Software Ltd, NLLänsmuseet Västernorrland, SEMonguz, HUSemantika, SLBelgian Institute of Natural Sciences, BESKINsoft ltd, FRBenaki Museum, GRHouse of Images, UKMunicípio do Seixal, POBritish Museum, UK

12 Nations

• Belgium• France• Germany• Greece• Hungary• Netherlands• Portugal• South Africa• Slovenia• Sweden• UK• US

Methodology

This transformation will be achieved by developing and distributing open technical tools (Europeana Connection Kits) in order to part-automate and simplify the process of transmitting content between Europeana and individual systems.

In the process, we will develop prototype interfaces which enable cultural institutions to manage, at global, collection or individual asset level, the rights and permissions associated with the distribution of digital cultural assets.

The Europeana Connection Kits will be integrated into the Collections and Digital Asset Management Systems of the participating software vendors, ensuring that their clients are able to participate in Europeana and related initiatives.

Objective 1

To open up a significant critical-mass of new digital cultural content from European cultural institutions for delivery through Europeana

Objective 2

To simplify significantly the process of contributing content to Europeana for cultural institutions and aggregators of all scales and types throughout Europe,

Objective 3

To help cultural institutions and aggregators overcome the organisational, technical, legal and financial barriers to participation by part-automating the workflow by which content is made available to Europeana, and creating tools for the management of permissions and licensing

Objective 4

To build on the framework of standards and protocols established under previous Europeana projects by ensuring that current and future generations of Collections and Digital Asset Management Software are ‘Europeana-ready

Objective 5

To support metadata enrichment in Content Provider systems (and thereby deliver value to participating organisations and their users) by creating a channel for enhanced content to flow back from Europeana as the central domain aggregator and point of access to local systems.

Project Overview

Content providers Technical partners Aggregators

Museum

Museum

Library

Library

Archive

Archive

AV Archive

Collections Management System

Digital Asset Management System

Europeana Connection

Kits

Enriched metadata

Work Packages

WP1: Networking

WP2: Specification

WP3: Development

WP4: Content Coordination

WP5: Production

WP6: Project Management

Other Partners

We anticipate that there will be other cultural institutions and technical providers wishing to participate in Europeana Inside, but who are not participants in (or recipients of funding from) the project.

We actively welcome participation from other partners, particularly from member institutions of the Europeana Network and from technical providers working with museums, archives and libraries.

If you are interested in participating in Europeana Inside, please contact Gordon McKenna, Collections Trust’s International Development Manager at gordon@collectionstrust.org.uk.

Contact

Gordon McKennaInternational Development ManagerCollections TrustWC209 Natural History MuseumCromwell RoadLondonSW7 5BD

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