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| Europeana InsideNewsletter #3October 2013
Dear friends of Europeana Inside,
"Get your information ready to go anywhere, because it's going to go everywhere." These words, from futurefriend.ly's Brad Frost, have a profound importance for museums as they embrace mobile and social technology. The new age of online, hyper-connected services is all about flow - the seamless flow of information and ideas across platforms and contexts. In this vision of the future, we can no longer depend solely on controlled contexts like buildings and websites to confer authority and significance - if our cultural information is to have value, it will have to carry its credentials with it.
Europeana Inside is all about unleashing the power and potential of the work that museums already put into managing and describing their collections, to meet the needs of a global digital audience. The aim is to bridge the gap between 'back office' and 'front of house', so that the knowledge assets we create are readily available for the public to discover and enjoy.
To achieve this goal, Europeana Inside has entered the exciting next phase of testing the Europeana Connection Kit (ECK) - the tool that aims to address the technical, legal and organisational challenges of opening up collections information for access and re-use. The first round of testing (iteration 1) has already been concluded and was deemed a success. Work has also been undertaken to address the issue of Intellectual Property Rights, to aid partners in clearing rights when submitting content to Europeana.
In addition, Europeana Inside has joined the Europeana Foundation in the AllezCulture initiative to raise awareness for the importance of digital cultural heritage and the Europeana portal in times of limited funding options.
In the past couple of weeks, the project partners have met to discuss the second round of testing (iteration 2). The testing will be conducted during the month of October and will move the project one step closer to achieving its objectives.
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The Europeana Connection Kit – First Round of Testing Concluded
In April, working groups were established to test different aspects of the first version of ECK (iteration 1). Iteration 1 was mainly concerned with selecting and preparing data. Content Partners were able to test the functionalities of ECK in the test environment created by their liaised Technical Partner. The Technical Partners provided a test plan and guided their testing partners through the different steps. This proved to be a very prolific process and we are happy to say that great progress was made in identifying achievements and hold-ups.
This feedback serves as the corner stone of the next testing phase (Iteration 2) which takes place in September and October 2013.
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Project Partners discussing results of Iteration 1 at 2nd Network Event in Budapest © Isabell Ehrlicher (Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
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The Road Ahead - Second Round of Testing Around the CornerThe second round of testing (iteration 2) is focusing on management overview of status and data publication. Functional requirements needed to perform the following workflow steps are part of iteration 2:
Manage, Select, Prepare, Validate transformation and receive feedback, Supply (push / pull), and Data acceptance.
In the past couple of weeks, Content Providers have met with Technical Partners in Budapest, Leuven and Athens to make the testing and evaluation process as efficient as possible. The testing will be conducted during the month of October and will move the project one step closer to achieving its objectives.
For more detailed information on the individual functional requirements of the ECK, please go to http://www.europeana-inside.eu/documents/deliverables/index.html
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Project Partners discussing Iteration 2 at a Meeting in Athens
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The Architecture of the Europeana Connection Kit (ECK)A huge amount of work has already gone into the design and development of the Europeana Inside tools. The ECK is at the heart of this process. It is a set of 13 modular components which 'bolt together' to provide for seamless and integrated sharing of collections information. These ECK modules are being developed in 4 iterative phases. The ECK as a whole is not characterised by an overall ‘system architecture’ in the traditional sense, but is specified by a set of high-level functional and non-functional requirements.
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Europeana Inside Issues Report on IPRIn a recent report commissioned by Europeana Inside, IPR consultants Naomi Korn and Professor Charles Oppenheim identified some of the key legal, licensing and policy challenges that are inhibiting organisations from contributing their previews and metadata to Europeana.
Basing their research on a combination of interviews, questionnaires, use cases and desk research, the consultants discovered that the key constraints were not primarily the obvious legal ones such as those associated with copyright, database rights, data protection, and the ambiguity and inconsistency of some of the copyright legislation across EU member states. Instead, the consultants found that the constraints were primarily organisational – in particular the organisation’s appetite for risk, and its approach to balancing public reuse of preview images and metadata with potential commercial opportunities.
The report makes a number of important recommendations, both to the consortium running the Europeana Inside Project, and for organisations wishing to contribute materials to Europeana. In particular, it recommends that such organisations undertake a risk management policy assessment and that they develop rights management systems to accurately record the rights they hold, both in entire collections, and in individual objects. This way, more preview images and their metadata can be contributed to Europeana.
The full report can be downloaded at http://www.europeana-inside.eu/assets/media/PDF/157.pdf. ![]()
Workshop on IPR at the 2nd Network Event in Budapest
© Jeanine Tieleman, DEN
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Associated PartnersEuropeana Inside is constantly looking for new partners to create an even larger network that shares its knowledge and enthusiasm to deliver new records to Europeana. Being an Associated Partner has many benefits such as being kept up to date about the project’s progress, participating in discussions, receiving invitations for project meetings and access to all documents produced within the project. In addition, it offers the possibility to cooperate with Europe’s leading collection management system developers and cultural heritage institutions, and being part of the future of sharing collections online. If you want to become Associated Partner as an aggregator, a cultural heritage institution or a software company, please get in contact with us at http://www.europeana-inside.eu/partners/participation_welcome/index.html. | ![]()
Announcements ![]() Europeana Inside meetings
September/October 2013: Meeting of Testing Groups for Iteration 2
11 December 2013: 3rd Technical Partners Meeting, Maribor, Slovenia
Conferences and meetings with Europeana Inside participation
22-26 September 2013: 17th Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Valletta (Malta)
28 October - 1 November 2013: Digital Heritage 2013, Marseille (France)
8 November 2013: EVA Conference, Berlin (Germany)
Link: http://www.europeana-inside.eu/about/conferences_and_meetings/index.html | ![]()
Documents
All the documents published by Europeana Inside and approved by the European Commission can be found at : http://www.europeana-inside.eu/documents/index.html
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Joining the Dots - An Introduction to Europeana Inside
The project partners have been very active in spreading the news to the GLAM community. An easy to read and up-to-date project overview has been created by Collections Trust and can be found at "Joining the dots - an introduction to Europeana Inside".
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Europeana Inside from Inside: "Participating in projects such as Europeana Inside is the best way to track innovation"
Project partners Laurent Meese from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and Roxanne Wyns from LIBIS have been interviewed about how their institutions profit from Europeana Inside and what their organisations bring to the table. For complete interview, please click here. | ![]()
Europeana Inside at EVA in London
At the EVA conference in London in July, Eva van Passel (iMinds) presented a paper on "On Convergence and Open Data: Challenges for Libraries, Archives and Museums" talking about the importance of Europeana Inside. | ![]()
2nd Network Event in Budapest
The 2nd Europeana Inside network event took place in June at the Petőfi Literary Museum in Budapest. During an intensive two days of workshops and presentations, all partners and participants reported satisfaction with the progress of the project.
During the event the Technical Partners met to exchange ideas and strategies and Content Providers got the chance to exchange experiences and learn more about the challenging topic of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and get acquainted with the LIDO-standard. Legal barriers were also the theme of an afternoon session where the IPR-report was presented. Another afternoon session was dedicated to the content delivery process to Europeana. Those involved in the iteration 1 testing met to discuss achievements and challenges and to prepare for the next steps.
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Europeana Inside supports #AllezCulture
Europeana, partner in the Europeana Inside project, might be facing a drastic budget cut. From 2015 onwards, Europeana's funding is to come from the European Commission's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). However, in early February 2013, a massive budget cut was proposed by the European Commission, taking the budget for broadband and digital services from 9 billion euros to just 1 billion. Europeana is still in the running to receive funding but is now in direct competition with health, justice and safer internet programs. If it loses the funding, much of the hard work put in over the last decade will be wasted. To support Europeana in their efforts to keep their funding Europeana Inside joined the #AllezCulture campaign. As a first step an online petition (titled 'Keep Europe’s culture open to everyone online') was launched which closed with well over 7,500 signatures and hundreds of valuable and inspiring comments of support from partners all over Europe.
The Commission will now take time to gather and look at information on all of the Digital Infrastructure platforms that could potentially be funded, and to set out its process for the next stage of planning and decision-making. Europeana will then start phase two of their #AllezCulture campaign to influence this next stage. And Europeana Inside plans on joining them in their effort. For more information on the #AllezCulture please go to:
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