FRANCE AND EUROPEANA An overview 10 July 2018 La Seine LEON & LEVY Parisienne de Photographie Public Domain
Table of contents FRANCE 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 France s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6 France 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. France 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 Education: 6 Learning scenarios (MOOC participants) and 15 learning scenarios produced by French teachers in a project with the MoE France, that will help other teachers to use Cultural Heritage content in education. Creative Industries: The Bird Memory Song renamed to Birdie Memory was one of the two challenge winners at Europeana EdTechChallenge. 4
Funding and projects Since 2008, France has contributed 450,000 to Europeana. To date, Europeana has enabled the contribution of 1,083,164 from the budget provided by the EU to fund Europeana projects in France. Europeana projects with partial EU funding in France are listed below. 1 partner from France is currently contributing to an ongoing Europeana project (Rise of Literacy), 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 Bibliothèque nationale de France Europeana Awareness, Europeana v3.0, Europeana Rise of Literacy, Europeana Sounds 705.343 Rise of Literacy ongoing Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Europeana Sounds 138.903 completed Conseil Général de la Gironde Europeana Local 144.941 completed DARIAH ERIC DSI1 1 29.853 completed Institut National de l'audiovisuel Europeana v2.0 57.780 completed Youarhere SAS Europeana Creative 6.344 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, 74 people from France 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 George Homs from Memlinq and Romain Wenz from University of Bordeaux. France s culture showcased in Europeana Collections Europeana Collections features over 50 million objects of which 5,021,585 are provided by French institutions. Aggregation All objects aggregated by France can be found here 2. The main point of contact for France is Culture.fr / Moteur. Cultural heritage institutions 54 cultural heritage institutions in France contribute collections to Europeana. The largest partners are listed in the following table. A full breakdown of institutions and objects can be found here 3. 6
DATA PARTNERS OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA COLLECTION Bibliothèque nationale de France / National Library of France 2,835,552 Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine / Ministry of Culture and Communication, Media Library of Architecture and Heritage 510,877 Muséum national d'histoire naturelle / Natural history museum 502,182 Archives départementales de la Gironde / Departmental archives of Gironde 222,125 Institut National de l'audiovisuel / National Audiovisual Institute 184,178 Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Musées de France / Ministry of Culture and Communication, Museums of France Ministère de la culture et de la communication, conservations régionales des monuments historiques / Ministry of Culture and Communication, Regional Preservation of Historic Monuments Ministère de la culture et de la communication, services régionaux de l'archéologie / Ministry of Culture and Communication, Regional Archeology Services 173,279 128,192 110,142 Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé, Paris / Interuniversity Health Library, Paris 47,992 Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris / Decorative Arts and Design Museum 36,800 Parisienne de Photographie 35,134 Centre national de la recherche scientifique - Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie 21,462 Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire / National and University Library of Strasbourg 21,320 Bibliothèque de l'alliance israélite universelle / Library of the Israelite Universal Alliance 20,549 Cité de la musique / City of Music 19,779 IRCAM-Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique / Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music 19,450 Bibliothèque de l'inha / Library of the National Institute of History of Art 18,704 Centre Français des Musiques Juives / French Center of Jewish Music 17,680 Bibliothèque Medem-Maison de la Culture Yiddish / Medem Library-House of Yiddish Culture Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Archives nationales / Ministry of Culture and Communication, National Archives 12,735 11,709 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. 13.2% of the 5,021,585 objects in Europeana provided by France are openly licensed 3. 1% of these objects are shown with the internationally accredited Public Domain mark 4, 10% is licensed under CC BY 5 and 2.2% is licensed under CC0 6. 7
Le Drapeau français flotte de nouveau à Strasbourg (1870-1918), National and University Library of Strasbourg, CC BY France in Europeana Collections 2016 2017 2018 Visits to Europeana Collections from France Total views of objects from France worldwide 160,526 157,379 73,879 202,485 201,430 115,484 Most-viewed object from France worldwide Queen Summer or the tourney of the Lily and the Rose 7 Récit de la captivité d une dame otage au camp de prisonniers d Holzminden 8 Biography. Hilarion Rubio 9 90% of visits from France browsed Europeana Collections in French, 4% in English and 6% used other languages. Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 48,315 1914-1918: 67,981 Art: 17,742 Natural History: 467,083 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
Strasbourg, novembre 1918: les autorités sur le parvis de la cathédrale National and University Library of Strasbourg CC BY 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 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?q=*%3a*&f[country][]=france 3 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?q=*%3a*&f[country][]=france 4 Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose - http://opendefinition. org/ 5 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/ 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/9200365/bibliographicresource_3000045610896.html 9 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ record/2063607/est_280_001.html 10 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ record/91401/oai_ircam_fr_grove_24058. html 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/ 10
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