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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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3
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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
20
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.
Published 20
September 2011Published 20
September 2011
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!
