SLOVAKIA AND EUROPEANA An overview 10 July 2018 Study of a Porcelain Vessel Scheidlin, Friedrich Carl von Slovak National Gallery Publci Domain
Table of contents SLOVAKIA AND EUROPEANA Intro 3 Presidency of the Council of the European Union 4 Highlights 4 Funding and projects 5 Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 6 Slovakia s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6 Slovakia in Europeana Collections 8 End notes 10
Intro Europeana is Europe s platform for digital cultural heritage. It is an initiative of the European Union and drives digital transformation. Europe s Member States and their cultural heritage institutions are integral to Europeana s success. Slovakia has been an indispensable partner to date, supporting Europeana financially, and contributing to its diversity of content. With content from every EU country (and beyond), an interface available in every EU language, and an award-winning series of APIs that give access to its content, Europeana Collections is the only place that offers up Europe s treasure trove of cultural heritage to the world. By encouraging open licensing, Europeana makes more culture available to more people, so it can be used in education, research and the creative industries. Europeana Collections, Europeana, 2018, Public Domain 3
Presidency of the Council of the European Union Organised by the Europeana Foundation and the Pencho Slaveykov Public Library, a conference entitled Vision for European Cultural Heritage 2025 took place in May 2018 in Varna, Bulgaria, as part of the Bulgarian presidency of the EU. Its aims were to generate momentum, stimulate thoughts and reflections on the impact of digital cultural heritage, and design a vision of how to use and manage that impact during the next strategic framework of the EU. The outcomes of the event will contribute to several strategy initiatives, most notably the #Digital4Culture strategy developed by Commissioner Mariya Gabriel. The draft vision will be further developed under the Austrian Presidency and presented at the closing event of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in December 2018. Highlights Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) participants in Slovakia have set up 3 Learning Scenarios that will help teachers to use Cultural Heritage content in education. 4
Funding and projects Since 2008, Slovakia has contributed 50,000 to Europeana. To date, Europeana has enabled the contribution of 290,333 from the budget provided by the EU to fund Europeana projects in Slovakia. Europeana projects with partial EU funding in Slovakia are listed below. No partners from Slovakia are currently contributing to ongoing Europeana projects, which directly support content, knowledge and technology sharing between libraries, museums, archives, software agencies, university research departments and Europeana. PARTNER PROJECT FUNDING (Euro) ONGOING/ COMPLETED PROJECT EEA s.r.o. Europeana Food & Drink, Europeana Local 245,850 Completed Slovenská národná knižnica Europeana Awareness 5,760 Completed Slovenské národné múzeum (Slovak National Museum) Europeana Local 38,624 Completed 5
Professional participation - Europeana Network Association The Europeana Network Association is a strong and democratic community of experts working in the field of digital heritage, united by a shared mission to expand and improve access to Europe s digital cultural heritage. Currently, 6 people from Slovakia are a Europeana Network Association member, and as such are involved in Europeana s activities, sharing best practices, learning and collaborating within the cultural heritage sector. Slovakia s culture showcased in Europeana Collections Europeana Collections features over 50 million objects of which 36,436 are provided by Slovakian institutions. Aggregation All objects aggregated by Slovakia can be found here 1. The main point of contact for Slovakia is Slovakiana. Cultural heritage institutions 8 cultural heritage institutions in Slovakia contribute collections to Europeana. The largest partners are listed in the following table. 6
DATA PARTNERS OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA COLLECTION Divadelný ústav / The Theatre Institute 9,901 Slovenská národná galéria / Slovak National Gallery 9,216 Botanický ústav SAV / Institute of Botany of Slovak Academy of Sciences 6,437 Slovenský národný archív / Slovak National Archives 6,181 Pamiatkový úrad Slovenskej republiky / The Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic 3,453 Univerzita Komenského Prírodovedecká fakulta Katedra aplikovanej a environmentálnej geofyziky / Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences 1,056 Slovenská národná knižnica / Slovak National Library 69 Osrednja knjižnica Srečka Vilharja / Central Library Srečko Vilhar Koper 13 Openly licensed data Openly licensed material can be promoted widely, reaching millions more people, and can be used in innovative products, apps and services that bring culture to the classroom, the newsroom, the science lab and the kickstarters. 64.5% of the 36,436 objects in Europeana provided by Slovakia are openly licensed 2. 64.7% of these objects are shown with the internationally accredited Public Domain mark 3 and 17.8% is licensed under CC0 4. Bonbardon a Grillo Jacques Callot, Slovak National Gallery, Public Domain 7
Slovakia in Europeana Collections 2016 2017 2018 Visits to Europeana Collections from Slovakia Total views of objects from Slovakia worldwide Most-viewed object from Slovakia worldwide 13,384 8,663 5,443 14,667 7,956 6,673 Krajina s kvetmi 5 Prvá svetová vojna 6 Jež plyšový, maskot ROCK FM rádia 7 80% of visits from Slovakia browsed Europeana Collections in Slovak, 9% in English, 4% in Czech, 4% in Hungarian while 3% used other languages. Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 14 1914-1918: 50 Art: 3,703 Natural History: 48,555 Organic search provides an important traffic source for Europeana Collections, particularly to item pages. The amount of organic search traffic we receive depends largely on the amount of pages indexed by Google. Through 2018, we experienced a drop in the number of indexed pages which contributed to a decrease in overall traffic. Specific countries may also have been affected by the depublication of datasets that don t meet the minimum requirements. We made efforts to mitigate the issue by working on the sitemap, introducing more context to the data and making improvements in the curated content. We ll continue this work in 2019 and implement a new editorial strategy which will bring more traffic and visibility to high-quality content. The engagement and impressions on social media, and the downloads and impressions on third party platforms perform beyond expectations which proves the power of curation and the potential of high-quality material. 8
Stojaca dáma Angerer, Ľudovít Slovak National Gallery Public Domain 9
End notes 1 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/nl/ search?q=*%3a*&f[country][]=slovakia 2 Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose - http://opendefinition. org/ 3 This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ 5 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/nl/ record/2063610/o_3205.html 6 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ record/9200323/bibliographicresource_3000094952632.html 7 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ record/08551/3268dd18c888350a- 2FA7B8943D4733F40EEBB22A.html 4 The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 10
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