Cultural data and contentaccess and re-use in
Europeana Georgia Angelaki, EuropeanaLAPSI Seminar, Warsaw 20 October 2011
Cultural heritage organisations (ie
archives, libraries, museums, broadcasters,
etc…)X
2011
140 direct providers and aggregatorsmore than 1500 individual institutions20+m items
CC-BY-NC(like)
CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
Why?
Users:Trusted sourceEase of use
Re-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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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
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.
Europeana Data Exchange Agreement
Drops “Non-commercial use only” (NC) Drops “Attribution” (BY)Drops “Share-alike” restriction (SA) Adopts a standardised license
• Only give to Europeana what you are comfortable with
• No need to provide metadata for complete or all collections
• Lives no doubt about possible re-uses of the data
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
Published 20
September 2011Published 20
September 2011
Result of long series of negotiations with content providers & aggregators.
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/newagreement
CENL / EU screen adopt
DEA
CC0 will be applied as of July 1st, 2012!
Metadata re-useexamples
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
Legal standardisation-
Content
CC labeled objects
• PD: 465,114
• CC-BY-NC-SA: 160,500
• CC-BY-NC-ND: 69,872
• CC-BY-NC: 60,696
• CC-BY: 17,036
• CC-BY-SA: 6,205
• CC-BY-NC-ND: 2,693
• CC-BY-ND: 4
We need solutions!
• Address the 20th century black hole & make available in- copyright
material
• Legal security for CH organisations for preservation, digitisation-
harmonisation in exceptions and limitations
• Make rights clearance time and cost effective : develop tools,
support legal framework for ECLs to enable mass digitisation
• Orphan works directive is a good step
• Stakeholders dialogue for allowing certain (re) uses of in-
copyright out-of-commerce material/ cut-off dates?
• Interoperable and/or standardised licenses that are easily
interpreted by humans/ machines
• Not all content has (only) commercial value
• Make it easy for users to respect copyright! (also by protecting
the public domain)
More activities…
• Upcoming publication on Europeana’s Licensing
Framework
• Improve rights’ labelling in the portal
• Increase the amount of content available under
open licenses and in the Public Domain
• Raise awareness among providers for the adoption
of standardised licenses
• Advocacy with the Commission for standardisation
of licenses and rights’ information and for
solutions with rightsholders to promote adoption
of open licenses for certain uses (ie non-
commercial, educational, etc)
Thank you!