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Table of contents NORWAY AND EUROPEANA Intro 3 Presidency of the Council of the European Union 4 Funding and projects 5 Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 6 Norway s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6 Norway 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. Norway 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, Norway has contributed 150,000 to Europeana. To date, Europeana has enabled the contribution of 557,989 from the budget provided by the EU to fund Europeana projects in Norway. Europeana projects with partial EU funding in Norway are listed below. No partners from Norway 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 ABM-Utvikling Europeana Local 71,101 Completed Asplan Viak Internet AS Europeana Local 176,699 Completed Norsk Kulturrad Europeana Awareness 47,280 Completed Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality Europeana Local 262,909 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, 16 people from Norway 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 Lars Rogstad from Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Norway s culture showcased in Europeana Collections Europeana Collections features over 50 million objects of which 5,401,458 are provided by Norwagian institutions. Aggregation All objects aggregated by Norway can be found here 1. The main point of contact for Norway is Arts Council Norway + MUSIT. Cultural heritage institutions 557 cultural heritage institutions in Norway 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 Arkivverket / The National Archives of Norway 3,153,891 Norsk Folkemuseum / Norwegian Museum of Cultural History 288,474 Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane / County Archives in Sogn og Fjordane 252,611 Domkirkeodden 116,196 Romsdalsmuseet / Romsdal Museum 68,393 Oslo Museum 66,339 Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkemuseum / Sverresborg Trøndelag Folk Museum 62,101 Akershusbasen 59,266 Norsk Teknisk Museum / Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology 47,473 NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet / NTNU University Museum 47,128 Nordlandsmuseet 40,905 Norsk jernbanemuseum / Norwegian Railway Museum 36,620 Telemark Museum 34,200 Stiftelsen Nordmøre Museum 30,305 Nord-Troms Museum 26,781 Norsk Luftfartsmuseum / Norwegian Aviation Museum 26,654 Glomdalsmuseet 26,155 Telemuseet / Norwegian Telecom Museum 26,048 Norsk Skogmuseum / Norwegian Forestry Museum 25,591 Oslo byarkiv / Oslo city archive 24,975 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. 65.5% of the 5,401,458 objects in Europeana provided by Norway are openly licensed 3. 50% of these objects are shown with the internationally accredited Public Domain mark 4, 4.3% is licensed under CC BY-SA 5, 1.9% is licensed under CC BY 6 and 9.4% is licensed under CC0 7. 7
Summer night. Inger on the beach Edvard Munch, Kode Art Museum of Bergen, Public Domain How Norway uses Europeana Collections 2016 2017 2018 Visits to Europeana Collections from Norway Total views of objects from Norway worldwide Most-viewed object from Norway worldwide 61,246 33,409 21,530 100,786 65,751 47,308 Harpelutt 8 ATA and Skurepulver 9 Frol Herredsstyre Bjerkan, Sverre 10 77% of visits from Norway browsed Europeana Collections in Norwegian, 13% in English, while 10% used other languages. The number of objects on: Europeana1914-1918: 163 MIgration: 3,591 Art: 42,647 Natural History: 4,874 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
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End notes 1 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?q=*%3a*&f[country][]=norway 2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?q=*%3a*&f[country][]=norway 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/ 5 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/ 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 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/ 8 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ record/2022608/rmt_rmt_687.html 9 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/no/ record/2022608/mh_ss_45874.html 10 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/no/ record/2022608/le_lem_001_1947i_240. html 10
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