SWITZERLAND AND EUROPEANA An overview 10 July 2018 The Jungfrau railway : Bernese Oberland (Switzerland) Swiss National Library Public Domain
Table of contents SWITZERLAND 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 Switzerland s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6 Switzerland 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. Switzerland 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 Switzerland have set up 1 Learning Scenario that will help teachers to use Cultural Heritage content in education. One project at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne within the Research Grants Programme (still ongoing). 4
Funding and projects Since 2008, Switzerland has contributed 15,000 to Europeana. To date, Switzerland has not participated in EU funded Europeana projects. These projects directly support content, knowledge and technology sharing between libraries, museums, archives, software agencies, university research departments and Europeana. 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, 17 people from Switzerland 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. 5
Switzerland s culture showcased in Europeana Collections Europeana Collections features over 50 million objects of which 166,878 are provided by Swiss institutions. Aggregation All objects aggregated by Switzerland can be found here 1. Cultural heritage institutions 30 cultural heritage institutions in Switzerland 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. DATA PARTNERS OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA COLLECTION Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv / Swiss Social Archives 26,866 Archäologie und Museum Baselland / Archeology and Museum Baselland 21,446 Universität Bern / University of Bern 17,489 Médiathèque Valais - Martigny / Media Library Valais - Martigny 13,022 Zentralbibliothek Zürich / Central Library of Zurich 12,483 Museen Muttenz / Muttenz Museums 8,445 Musées lausannois / Lausanne Museums 7,993 Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft / Swiss Federal Archives, Bern 6,684 Dichter- und Stadtmuseum Liestal / Poet and City Museum Liestal 5,361 Ortsmuseum Lausen / Local Museum Lausen 1,622 e-codices - Virtuelle Handschriftenbibliothek der Schweiz / e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland 1,554 Stiftung Ortssammlung Gelterkinden / Foundation Local Collection Gelterkinden 1,092 Musée Romain Lausanne-Vidy / Roman Museum Lausanne-Vidy 705 Dorfmuseum Bottmingen / City Museum Bottmingen 307 Ortsmuseum Binningen / Local Museum Binningen 268 Ortsmuseum zum Feld, Reigoldswil / Local museum to the field, Reigoldswil 247 Museum Laufental 212 Heimatmuseum Aesch 189 Museum im Bürgerhaus / Museum in the town house 128 Lichtspiel - Kinemathek Bern / Lichtspiel - Cinematheque Bern 121 6
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. 7.5% of the 166,878 objects in Europeana provided by Switzerland are openly licensed 3. 0.05% of these objects are shown with the internationally accredited Public Domain mark 4 and 7.5% is licensed under CC0 7. Zürich - Zürichhornpark, Central Library of Zurich, CC0 7
Switzerland in Europeana Collections 2016 2017 2018 Visits to Europeana Collections from Switzerland Total views of objects from Switzerland worldwide Most-viewed object from Switzerland worldwide 46,820 37,257 17,840 49,279 35,015 17,359 Antiquitätenmarkt Antiquitätenmarkt 8 seltzamen Meerwunder so sich diss nechst verschinen Newe Zeytung von einem Lxiiii 9 55% of visits from Switzerland browsed Europeana Collections in German, 25% in French, 9% in English, 3% in Italian while 8% used other languages. Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 950 1914-1918: 145 Art: 2,198 Natural History: 143 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
The Rhaetian Railway, with particular attention to the Albula route Swiss National Library CC BY-SA 9
End notes 1 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ 2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?f%5bcoun- TRY%5D%5B%5D=Switzerland&q=%2A%3A%2A search?f%5bcoun- TRY%5D%5B%5D=Switzerland&q=%2A%3A%2A 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/91616/arme_object_am003969. html 9 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ record/2048005/athena_plus_provided- CHO_Nationalmuseum Switzerland_17773.html 10
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