BELGIUM AND EUROPEANA An overview 10 July 2018 Gravure van niet uitgevoerde voorgevel van Sint-Pieterskerk in Leuven Harrewijn, Jacobus KU Leuven Public Domain
Table of contents BELGIUM 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 Belgium s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6 Belgium 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. Belgium 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 On 15-17 March 2018 the first Migration Collection Days took place at the House of European History in Brussels. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) participants in Belgium have set up 2 Learning Scenarios that will help teachers to use Cultural Heritage content in education. 4
Funding and projects Since 2008, Belgium has contributed 60,000 to Europeana. To date, Europeana has enabled the contribution of 2,775,182 from the budget provided by the EU to fund Europeana projects in Belgium. Europeana projects with partial EU funding in Belgium are listed below. 5 partners from Belgium are currently contributing to ongoing Europena projects (Europeana DSI3, Europeana Migration), 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 Ariadne Foundation VZW Europeana Cloud 74,400 Completed Association des Cinémathèques Européenes DSI1 1, DSI2 2, DSI3 3 159,742 DSI3 ongoing Centrum voor Agrarische Geschiedenis VZW Europeana Food & Drink 91,600 Completed EUN Partnership AISBL Europeana Creative, DSI1, DSI2, DSI3 397,787 DSI3 ongoing European Business and Innovation Centre Network Europeana Creative 275,909 Completed European Network of Living Labs Europeana Creative 162,852 Completed Federation des Editeurs Europeens fee ASBL Europeana Food & Drink 117,424 Completed In Flanders Fields Museum Europeana Awareness 28,160 Completed International Consortium for Photographic Heritage DSI2 155,159 Completed James Lovegrove SPRL DSI2, DSI3 91,097 DSI3 ongoing Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Europeana Cloud, Migration 247,543 Migration ongoing Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis Europeana Food & Drink 107,140 Completed Michael Culture AISBL DSI1, DSI2, DSI3 523,150 DSI3 ongoing Musee Royal de l'afrique Centrale Europeana Food & Drink 102,076 Completed Provincie Limburg Europeana Awareness, Europeana Local 196,523 Completed Universite Libre de Bruxelles Europeana Cloud 44,621 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, 75 people from Belgium 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. The Europeana Network Association elects a Members Council who play a crucial role across all Europeana s activities. The Members Council is made up of 36 people, including Fred Truyen from KU Leuven, Jef Malliet from PCCE (Provincial Centre for Cultural Heritage) and Erik Buelinckx from the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA). Belgium s culture showcased in Europeana Collections Europeana Collections features over 50 million objects of which 1,486,868 are provided by Belgium institutions. Aggregation All objects aggregated by Belgium can be found here 4. The main point of contact for Belgium is Erfgoedplus. Cultural heritage institutions 315 cultural heritage institutions in Belgium contribute collections to Europeana. The largest partners are listed in the following table. A full breakdown of institutions and objects can be found here 5. 6
DATA PARTNERS OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA COLLECTION Catwalkpictures 484,499 Ghent University Library 161,597 KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) 145,371 Radio Télévision Belge Francophone 131,499 Amsab-Institute of Social History 106,062 Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium 77,429 Carmentis - Online museum catalogue 58,514 KU Leuven 46,286 ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 37,955 Royal Museum for Central Africa 15,681 Royal Library of Belgium 15,389 Sportimonium vzw 15,013 Direction des Monuments et des Sites de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Directie Monumenten en Landschappen van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest 13,587 Museum De Mindere, Sint-Truiden 11,772 Musées Royaux d'art et d'histoire 10,285 Art & History Museum 7,871 Modemuseum Hasselt 6,251 Museum Plantin-Moretus Prentenkabinet 5,814 Het Stadsmus, Hasselt 5,460 M Museum Leuven 5,348 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. 5.5% of the 1,486,868 objects in Europeana provided by Belgium are openly licensed 6. 0.6% of these objects are shown with the internationally accredited Public Domain mark 7, 4.5% is licensed under CC BY-SA 8 and 0.4% is licensed under CC BY 9. 7
prent (niet in kleur) uit La mode illustrée, ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Public Domain Belgium in Europeana Collections 2016 2017 2018 Visits to Europeana Collections from Belgium Total views of objects from Belgium worldwide 94,306 87,309 40,290 162,366 138,889 109,814 Most-viewed object from Belgium worldwide Planche 12 10 Loudiyi Tahar ou Ali ou Assou 11 Loudiyi Tahar ou Ali ou Assou Document confidentiel du protectorat français 12 63% of visits from Belgium browsed Europeana Collections in Dutch, 13% in English, 20% in French, 1% in German while 3% used other languages. Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 1,189 1914-1918: 2,120 Art: 96,218 Natural History: 93,663 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
Belgium and Europeana: an overview Sainte Cécile de Rome François Joseph Navez Délégation générale à la numérisation des patrimoines culturels Public Domain 9
End notes 1 As a Digital Service Infrastructure, Europeana will continue to connect the online collections of Europe s cultural heritage institutions. Europeana DSI is funded by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). - https://pro.europeana.eu/ project/europeana-dsi 2 Europeana DSI-2 is our core project which aims to connect, as a Digital Service Infrastructure, the online collections of Europe s cultural heritage institution. - https://pro.europeana.eu/ project/europeana-dsi-2 3 Europeana DSI-3 is a continuation of the previous Europeana DSI projects (Europeana DSI and Europeana DSI-2). The DSI-3 project operates the Europeana core service platform from mid-2017 to mid-2018. The Europeana DSI-3 consortium consists of Europeana Foundation as coordinator as well as 28 partners from ten different countries represented by aggregators and expert hubs, developers, experts and organisations with relevant distribution networks. - https:// pro.europeana.eu/project/europeana-dsi-3 4 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?q=*%3a*&f[country][]=belgium 5 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?q=*%3a*&f[country][]=belgium 6 Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose - http://opendefinition. org/ 7 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/ 8 You are free to: Share copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ 9 You are free to: Share copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 10
10 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ record/2048001/athena_plus_provided- CHO_KIK_IRPA Brussels Belgium AP_10345436.html 11 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/fr/ record/2048076/fiche_id_24770.html 12 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/fr/ record/2048076/fiche_id_24770.html 11
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