DENMARK AND EUROPEANA An overview 10 July 2018 At the French Windows. The Artist s Wife L. A. Ring Statens Museum for Kunst CC 0
Table of contents DENMARK AND EUROPEANA Intro 3 Presidency of the Council of the European Union 4 Funding and projects 5 Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 6 Denmark s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6 Denmark 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. Denmark 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. 4
Funding and projects Since 2008, Denmark has contributed 20,000 to Europeana. To date, Europeana has enabled the contribution of 518,387 from the budget provided by the EU to fund Europeana projects in Denmark. Europeana projects with partial EU funding in Denmark are listed below. No partners from Denmark 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 Arhus Kommunes Biblioteker Europeana Awareness 48,960 completed Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Nationalbibliotek of Kobenhavns Universitetsbibliotek Europeana Cloud 37,200 completed Roskilde Kommune Europeana Local 114,223 completed Spild af Tid ApS Europeana Awareness, Europeana Creative 158,875 completed Statsbiblioteket Europeana Sounds 159,129 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, 31 people from Denmark 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 Merete Sanderhoff from the Statens Museum for Kunst. Merete Sanderhoff also sits on the Management Board as the Chair of Europeana Network Association. Denmark s culture showcased in Europeana Collections Europeana Collections features over 50 million objects of which 1,678,319 are provided by Danish institutions. Aggregation All objects aggregated by Denmark can be found here 1. The main point of contact for Denmark is DK-National Aggregation Service. Cultural heritage institutions 25 cultural heritage institutions in Denmark contribute collections to Europeana. The largest partners are listed in the following table. A full breakdown of institutions and objects can be found here 2. 6
DATA PARTNERS OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA COLLECTION Kulturarvsstyrelsen / Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces 820,540 Det Kongelige Bibliotek / The Royal Library: The National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library 645,614 Det Danske Filminstitut / Danish Film Institute 67,671 Statens Museum for Kunst / National Gallery of Denmark 25,757 Arbejdermuseet & ABA 25,026 POLFOTO 24,822 Danish Broadcasting Corporation 23,875 Statens Naturhistoriske Museum / Natural History Museum of Denmark 22,449 State and University Library / Statsbiblioteket 12,268 Roskilde lokalhistoriske Arkiv / Roskilde Local History Archives 9,495 Danish Mycological Society 748 Sjællands Stiftsbibliotek 40 Skagens Museum 2 Bornholms Kunstmuseum / Bornholm Art Museum 1 Brandts 1 Den Hirschsprungske Samling / Hirschsprung Collection 1 Faaborg Museum 1 Nationalmuseet / National Museum of Denmark 1 Nivaagaards Malerisamling 1 Ribe Kunstmuseum / Ribe Art Museum 1 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. 50.6% of the 1,678,319 objects in Europeana provided by Denmark are openly licensed 3. 11.1% of these objects are shown with the internationally accredited Public Domain mark 4, 8.6% is licensed under CC0 5 and 30.9% is licensed under CC BY 6. 7
[Àlbum del Japó] A. Farsari & Co, Ajuntament de Girona, Public Domain Denmark in Europeana Collections 2016 2017 2018 Visits to Europeana Collections from Denmark Total views of objects from Denmark worldwide 73,701 69,852 44,546 108,877 112,472 77,756 Most-viewed object from Denmark worldwide Stoppekone 7 Haven med den gamle døbefont 8 Udslidt 9 90% of visits from Denmark browsed Europeana Collections in Danish, while 7% used English and 3% used other languages. Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 2,553 1914-1918: 14,982 Art: 27,761 Natural History: 23,701 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
Denmark and Europeana: an overview Udslidt H. A. Brendekilde, BRANDTS, CC BY 9
End notes 1 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/nl/ search?q=*%3a*&f[country][]=denmark 2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/nl/ search?q=*%3a*&f[country][]=denmark 3 Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose - http://opendefinition. org/ 4 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/ 6 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/ 7 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/nl/ record/2058618/object_kuas_7671531. html 8 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/da/ record/2020903/kms966.html 9 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/da/ record/2063604/den_280_018.html 5 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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